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I'm on a guest blogger roll. Here's something about 11th and 12th century metalworking finds from Sigtuna near Stockholm by my friendly colleague Anders Söderberg. He and our mutual friend Ny Björn Gustafsson are making sense of stuff that usually ends up with burnt daub in large anonymous sacks…
Archy continues to post snippets of his research on the history of the discoveries and descriptions of mammoths:
The description of the mammoth as a subterranean animal that dies on exposure to surface air is almost identical to that given by the Chinese writer Tung-fang So in the second century BC…
The more I read about the trillionth ton (or tonne for our non-American friends), the more intrigued I am by its power to change the way we approach the threat of global warming. I wrote last week about the idea, which represents a whole new way of thinking about carbon emissions, but I'd like to…
Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein is a short book. I wish I could say it was also a sharp shock of a book, but not quite. This is a classic case of a book that cries out to be shorter -- in this case from a decent slim hardcover reduced down to probably what could have been a…
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archy, I hope your big day went as finely as mine did.
Oh, and another person to share our birthday was Leonard Bernstein. When we were kids, that was always the first person mentioned on those "On this Day ..." lists, it seemed. Not that it made me a fan ...
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Archy, you're just a week older than me. Hurray for us peak boomers!
Thanks for visiting, everyone. It was a good birthday. Now that I am aglow with the wisdom that only age can bring, I expect my family, co-workers, and cats to pay more attention to my words. So far, it's not working out as I had hoped.