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My Nature Article

No, I didn't do actual research. But I do have a news feature on neuroeconomics in the new issue. Here's a snippet: Read Montague spent the summer of 2003 thinking about soft drinks. His teenage daughter was working as an intern in his lab at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and Montague, a neuroscientist, wanted to find an experiment that she could "wrap her head around". After much deliberation, he came up with the perfect research topic: recreating the Pepsi Challenge. In a brain scanner1. Pepsi launched this advertisement, one of the most famous of all time, in the early…

"A Junk Insurance Tax"

To follow up on Tuesday's post about Massachusetts' healthcare, it bears repeating: healthcare reform has to make people's lives better. In other words, people have to like this crap. And this isn't cutting it (boldface mine; italics original): When it came time to renew my own insurance, I asked the insurance broker, what it would cost to buy good insurance in New York State. She said, "sit down". I held my breath in anticipation, she said, "$1300 a month." When it came time for me to renew my health insurance which was a barely adequate policy with a $500 deductible, the new premium…

Biotech and Business Journalism: It's the Business Model, Stupid

In the midst of all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the death and cooptation of business journalism inspired by John Stewart's skewering of Jim Cramer, it's important to remember one thing: that's the business model. Or to put it another way, the customer is always right. If you ever read the biotech press, which is a subset of the larger business press, there is an obvious, inherent structural bias. The biotech press will never critique the fundamentals of the biotech industry as a whole. It will criticize individual approaches or companies. But it will almost never ask…

Digby Closes the Circle on 'Fiscal Austerity'

One of the really difficult things for me to comprehend is why the idea of 'Fiscal Austerity' is so popular among politicians, especially too many Democratic ones, when Fiscal Austerity will lead to high unemployment. The null hypothesis of "people are fucking morons", while personally appealing, just doesn't seem to have explanatory power. However, Digby, as she is wont to do, clarifies things tremendously: I have thought from the beginning of the crisis that this [the erroneous belief that budget cuts will create jobs] was a problem. I could tell from some conversations I was having that…

Bad news for the Affordable Care Act

The NYTimes reporting suggests a 5-4 split against ACA is likely: Justice Kennedy, along with Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. all asked questions suggesting that they had a problem with the constitutionality of the mandate requiring most Americans to buy insurance. Justice Clarence Thomas, as usual, did not ask any questions, but he is widely expected to vote to overturn the mandate. As does CNN's Toobin's analysis: This is interesting. Part of the issue is how much of the law would fall if they turn against it? Would we still be able…

Honey, where's my Super-Suit?

The new Speedo LZR Racer suit, that is. Designed with all the power of science and technology behind it, the LZR Racer is being credited with imparting enhanced, record-breaking athletic performances to its wearers. . It was designed using the same technology applied to reducing drag on the Space Shuttle, with the goal of diminishing the friction and skin movement that normally occur during swimming, thus improving overall hydrodynamics. It's a cool story from the scientific perspective, to be sure, but the public reaction since its unveiling in February 08, and now with the Olympic…

DIY BIO: clone at home but kill them later

Cloning the gene for green fluorescent protein is fun. Lots of fun. Cloners have put the GFP gene into rabbits, plants, cats, fish, and worms, and made mutants that code for proteins in every color of the fluorescent rainbow. Teachers like GFP so much that every year, high school students throughout the U.S. clone GFP in biology class. Now, some people, who call themselves DIY biologists, have started cloning GFP for fun in their kitchens. Other people find this alarming. From Yahoo news: Jim Thomas of ETC Group, a biotechnology watchdog organization, warned that synthetic organisms…

King of the Wonks

John Zogby, of the Zogby polling agency gave a talk on campus earlier tonight. I have to say, having heard him speak, that whoever came up with the word "wonk" probably had somebody like Zogby in mind-- he had poll numbers for absolutely everything he talked about, and for every single question he was asked afterwards. I spent a few minutes trying to think of a question that he wouldn't be able to answer with "I did some polling on that...," but didn't come up with anything. He did have a couple of interesting comments, though, that I'll reproduce here for anyone who's interested: The one…

Learn Python Using Minecraft

Minecraft is a gaming world. Or, if you like, a "sandbox." This is a three dimensional world in which characters do things, all sorts of things. The context for the world of Minecraft is very open ended. The player builds things, moves things, gets things, does things, in a way that makes any one gamer's game potentially very different from any other gamer's game. You can buy Minecraft in various forms such as an XBox 360 version. It comes in Lego form (for example, this), and you can get a Minecraft cloud server version at Minecraft.net. If you install Minecraft from Minecraft.net (about…

Bugs Aren't Features

I upgraded to the latest version of Opera a little while ago, and since the upgrade, it has developed a really charming bug: every so often, it just decides not to have anything further to do with certain web sites. It happens most frequently with ScienceBlogs, because I usually have several SB tabs open, but I've seen it with some other frequently-visited sites. It works fine for a while, but after a day or two, hitting "Reload" to, say, update comment counts, does nothing. It says that it's loading, and maybe even that it's transferred some trivial number of bytes, but then it just sits…

Cranky Book "Meme": Voted Off the Island

Jim Henley proposes a "meme" about literature: Adrienne Aldredge has a twist on Bookish Questions I'm herewith turning into a meme: What authors have you given up on for good? And why? I'm going to stick to authors who continue to produce work, and whom I used to follow eagerly, not authors I felt obligated to try and didn't like once I did. Jim offers Dan Simmons and Alan Furst as his choices (read his post to see why). Simmons would be an excellent choice, but, um, I bought both Ilium and Olympos in hardcover. (In my defense, I read Ilium from the library first, and it seemed like a…

What do they call this when it is sushi?

A good friend of mine, whom I shall call L.R., got a job ... a pretty nice job, with benefits and a salary and everything, in the "helping" industry, which she's good at and which she likes. So I took her out for a congratulatory dinner (and just because we had not seen each other in weeks). It took me some effort to get her to tell me where she really wanted to eat. L.R. is a sweetly, quietly self contained person (but made of steel inside, so don't mess with her) so it was totally out of character for her to tell me where we should go so I could buy us both dinner. But I made her talk…

Links for 2009-09-21

Thorium-fuelled exports coming from India "The original design is fuelled by a mix of uranium-233 and plutonium bred from thorium using fast neutron power reactors earlier in a thorium fuel cycle. The LEU variant is suitable for export because it does away with the plutonium, replacing it with uranium enriched to 19.75% uranium-235. Producing 300 MWe, the unit is less than one third the capacity of a typical large reactor. It is designed to operate for up to 100 years and has a "next generation" level of safety that grants operators three days' grace in the event of a serious incident and…

Thoughts on Osama

Some initial thoughts, on a beautiful day in a palpably better world without Osama: 1. I'm astonished he was still alive. I was certain he died from an anonymous bomb or health problems sometime between '01 and '04. He hadn't released any tapes or videos with unambiguous confirmation of when they were recorded, and the general consensus was that al-Qaida was now a fully decentralized organization that had adjusted to operating without him. The fact that he wasn't dead meant that, unlike his suicide bombers and guerrillas, he had basically abandoned his own cause to live in (very) quiet luxury…

Commentary on Impact Factors in JCB

What goes into a journal's impact factor? It turns out that this is a good question. These impact factors are calculated by Thomsom Scientific and attempt to quantify the import of any particular scientific journal. But did anyone read this commentary in the December 17th issue of JCB? It's a revealing look as to how impact factors are compiled. From the article: With the aim of dissecting the data to determine which topics were being highly cited and which were not, we decided to buy the data for our three journals (The Journal of Experimental Medicine, The Journal of Cell Biology, and The…

Tech4Society, Day 2

Getting ready to head up to Tech4Society's final day. I'm on a panel called the tipping point, about how to scale social entrepreneurial success beyond a local region or state. My instinct is to say "pack your suitcase and start traveling" but that's not very helpful. Even if it's how I have been approaching the problem. Yesterday I wasn't on a panel. It was a good moment to do some listening. I sat in on a few panels, but was most moved by the trends in Africa session. In other trends panels, the trends were things like "open source" - positive trends. In Africa it was all about how…

The blunt edge of "the Wedge" strikes again

If you fail at everything else in life, you could always try to work for a scientific organization, reveal that you're a creationist, and then land a job as a professor at Liberty University. That's just what Nathaniel Abraham did, and now he's suing the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute because as they didn't want a creationist working on a project that directly involved evolutionary concepts. PZ already covered this story when it initially came out, but now it seems to have emerged in wider media circles (it was on the Yahoo! front page when I logged on a few minutes ago). The…

Presidential churches

There has been much wringing of hands over video of a speech delivered by Sen. Obama's pastor. Pastor Wright says various and sundry things which go well beyond what ought to be said at a pulpit, and beyond what a presidential candidate would consider, well, presidential. Obama has responded, rejecting those statements (in language stronger than McCain's tut-tutting over Hagee's bigoted statements) but standing by his affiliation with the church. Defending that choice, Obama cites Wright's imminent retirement, with a successor already chosen, and Obama's and his family's ties to the…

On the "vise," the "wedge," and creationism

Reposted from the old TfK, for your enjoyment while I drive out to the NCSE. I don't mind creationism. I know this comes as a bit of a shock, but I don't. For our purposes, creationism is the belief that a supernatural force or being created, designed or otherwise shaped the universe and life in it. I don't have any broad beef with that idea. I don't necessarily buy it, but I'm not necessarily against it. I say this because Billy Dembski has expanded on his Vise strategy (previously discussed in "Beware the simple machines"). He creates a taxonomy of "Darwinists": those who advocate…

Impressionism and the Neurology of Art

As I note in my book, the most famous impressionists all suffered from serious medical problems: Monet became blind (but didn't stop painting the bridges of Giverny). Vincent Van Gogh, drinker of kerosene, turpentine, and absinthe, probably thought the coronas he painted around stars and streetlamps were real. Edgar Degas became severely myopic, which led him to do more and more sculpture ("I must learn a blind man's trade now," Degas said.) Auguste Renoir, poisoned by his pastel paints, became a rheumatic cripple. Now scientists are able to simulate exactly what Monet would have seen…

ScienceOnline09 - an interview with Cameron Neylon

The series of interviews with some of the participants of the 2008 Science Blogging Conference was quite popular, so I decided to do the same thing again this year, posting interviews with some of the people who attended ScienceOnline'09 back in January. Today, I asked Cameron Neylon from the Science in the open blog to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my readers a little bit more about yourself? Who are you? What is your (scientific) background? My background is in protein chemistry and biochemistry. Broadly speaking what I do is take…

It's the end of the world as we know it (annotated)

For your consideration: Two possible, if not probable, future scenarios for the human race should the business of fossil fuel combustion continue as usual for the next few decades. The first, an ABC-TV special that aired this Tuesday night, "Earth 2100." The second, a film by UK documentarian Frannie Armstrong, "The Age of Stupid." The former depicts a world that is increasing hostile to civilization as the century draws to a close, the latter an even less habitable planet, not just for humans, by 2055. Are either visions realistic, or just more worse-case scenarios that grossly exaggerate…

Columbia Scholarly Communication Program Speaker Series Videos Now Available Online

Check them out here (unfortunately, no embed codes, so you'll have to click and watch there, or download on iTunes): Know Your Rights: Who Really Owns Your Scholarly Works?: In this panel discussion, experts on copyright law and scholarly publishing discuss how scholars and researchers can take full advantage of opportunities afforded by digital technology in today's legal environment, and suggest ways to advocate for positive change. The panelists are Heather Joseph, who has been Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC); Michael Carroll,…

My visit to Purdue

Jen has the full account, complete with a video, of my talk. I was a rude boy. Right now, I'm in Bloomington, at the "Current Frontiers in Evolution, Development and Genomics" conference. I gave the keynote last night — which means I am now free to sit back and simply enjoy the meeting without fretting over a silly talk any more. I think I'll be able to get online in the auditorium, so you may be subject to more live-blogging of evo-devo over the course of the day. I see we've got events scheduled all day long, up to 11pm. I might die.

Only two shoplifting days until Christmas!

Strapped for cash? Don't know how you're going to afford a few gifts for the family? Don't worry about it, just steal them! It's OK because a priest says it is, and they've got the backing of God. Just remember: don't rob the little stores, always hit the big ones, since they've got capital to spare. And they've also got the really good stuff. I'm a little behind the times. I did all my Christmas shopping online, where it's really hard to shoplift. Would it be OK if I stole some credit card numbers, Father? How about if I give the church its 10% cut?

How We Evolve

The most recent issue of Seed Magazine has a cover story that readers of this weblog might find of interest, How We Evolve. It's not online, but its basic core is the acceleration of recent human evolution. John Hawks seems to be the primary source. The author, Benjamin Phelan, made a good faith effort to explain concepts like linkage disequilibrium, the Shifting Balance (by implication) and haplotype structure. I have some qualms about the piece, which I will moot at some point in the near future, but I think if you find some of the population genetics references on this blog opaque…

Vatican official not gay - not that there's anything wrong with it

If you haven't seen it, this is a hilarious story: Vatican Official Insists He's Not Gay: A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with gay men as part of his work as a psychoanalyst. He said that he pretended to be gay in order to gather information about "those who damage the image of the Church with homosexual activity."

List of science blogs, with an asterisk

The Times Online has posted a list of science blogs of various sorts, which I was inclined to endorse since they did include me, and also some blogs I hadn't seen before — I am enchanted by 2d goggles, and want to spend the rest of the day reading the archives — but then I got to the end of the list and … Anthony Watts? Crank weatherman and climate change denialist? That's an anti-science blog, sorry. Now I'm a little embarrassed to be on it. I note that the commenters on that site are similarly dismayed at the lack of discrimination in their final choice.

Future prospects for commenting

Seed is planning to roll out some big upgrades to the commenting system here, and they're going to potentially add a lot of new features, which is cool. They also want to know what you think, but they've chosen to get user input in a way I find rather uncomfortable. They're doing it with an online poll. Oh, no. Hoist by my own petard. You better go vote, before the Rapture-lovin' fundagelicals move in and voice their opinions, and we end up with every comment ending in a honkin' big sig with huge-eyed puppy dogs and pink script with sparkly graphic effects.

Around the Web: Personal data ecosystems, Learning to say, "I don't know" and more

Startups in the Personal Data Ecosystem Elements of an Effective Public Education Toolkit The Politics of the New Huffington Post at AOL How to Promote Zotero at Your Institution and Why Disruption, Delivery and Degrees Measuring Impact Beyond Academic Fame: An Alternative Social Impact Factor Character Education for the Digital Age Encouraging Scientific Data Use Time for textbook tycoons to give students a break Publishing science in a connected world Data-security horror stories In Person: Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia The Complete History of Social Networking…

Around the Web: The Chicago way, Take a test, Invisible computer labs and more

The Chicago Way: A respected style manual advises scholars against open access To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test Tenure and all that Arsenic, cold fusion and the legitimacy of online critique Teen's Bubble Ball game tops iTunes free app chart (used library book to learn programming) The Invisible Computer Lab Academic Boredom How I Think About E-Books 45% Of Students Don't Learn Much In College My Students Know Far Less Than I Ever Expected Blogging with the Invisible Community - and Why It Matters On building a better blogosphere The Cowbell of Communications Social Media,…

Around the Web: CS Recruitment, Online privacy, Death by Twitter and more

Selling ourselves (short) (attracting students to CS) Online Behavior Tracking and Privacy: 7 Worst Case Scenarios Feedback loops in eBook success Is Twitter Killing You? The Rise of the 'Edupunk' When Social Media Is Irrelevant The Digital Natives / Digital Immigrants Distinction Is Dead, Or At Least Dying All I needed to know about, well, everything, I learned in CS? Decoding the Value of Computer Science A Gresham's Law for Software Do conference build community? (Computer Science) arXiv Business Model White Paper Undergraduates in the Library, Trying Not to Drown Quote for Today: "…

Plea to the godless community

I got a request to mention this, and how can I not? A young boy is battling leukemia, and his family is struggling with the costs. They've had to put up an online donation box in the hope of some relief. If you've got a little to spare (I know, this is not a good time in the history of our economy to expect that), think about giving a little to a family in need…or at the very least, donate to the Children's Cancer Research Fund. And also think about this if our representatives ever get moving on health care reform.

Complex Systems #171

One of the joys of the holidays and the University turning off the heating and locking us out, is that it provides time to catch up on things: papers, refereeing, recommendation letters, grading, syllabi, proposals, all the stuff one can rarely get to during actual working semester hours. And, sometimes, there is time for real life: casual reading, family, catching up online... One of the ye olde blog things I like to look over occasionally is Scott Aaronson's shtetl-optimized, for the latest on P!=NP news, or polemic on quantum computing. This time, what caught my eye was his take on the…

Emphasis on science and the general public at IAS

The Iowa Academy of Science has released its summer newsletter online, and is available here (.pdf). There's a lot going on for scientists and the science-interested at all levels (students, teachers, researchers), so for the Iowa folks (or, those of you in other states who are just looking for some good ideas), if you've not already checked them out or have a membership, give them a look (their homepage is http://www.iacad.org/). They also have new programs focusing on science education for the general public, which I know is an interest for many readers as well.

ScienceOnline09 - an interview with...me!

One of the education sessions at ScienceOnline09 will be the middle/high school perspective (or: "how the Facebook generation does it"?) session that will be led by Miss Baker and eight of her high-school biology class students. One of these students - Brandon - recently interviewed me via e-mail and the interview is now available online - you can choose the full text or you can opt for excerpts in a video form. I understand that other students interviewed other conference participants and I can't wait to see their interviews as well. I see that Peter Suber already liked it ;-)

More on Pulitzers for online reporting

Remember this? Now Simon Ovens interviewed several key players in this game - Pulitzers Open to Online-Only Entrants -- But Who Qualifies? It's longish, but worth your attention: He did, however, confirm that a blog could hypothetically qualify. "If one or two people call their website a text-based newspaper, would it be eligible?" he said. "Blogs tend to fall into three categories. There are news reporting blogs, there are commentary blogs, and there's a hybrid version of the two. If they're text-based and meet our criteria, then they probably could compete. But it would be up to them to…

Rename Christi Himmelfahrt!

Those wacky, madcap Germans are promoting a little change in their set of national holidays: some people want to change the Feast of the Ascension, celebrating the day Jesus supposedly floated up into heaven, to…Evolution Day! As you might guess, I think this is an excellent idea. There is a petition you can sign, and less usefully, an online poll: Soll "Christi Himmelfahrt" in "Evolutionstag" umbenannt werden? Ich bin dafür (for it)3061 66.30% Ich bin dagegen (against it)1312 28.42% Ist mir egal (don't care)244 5.28% They even have a charming video to go with their proposal.

Unbelievable?

As mentioned previously, my interview on British Christian talk radio is now available — you can download the mp3 directly, and you can join in an online discussion, in which I am accused of "scientism"…which is rather pecuilar, given that in the interview I rather specifically said there were phenomena for which science is not the best tool for examination (although I would also say that there are no phenomena which require something beyond natural mechanisms). The interviewer also thinks Plantinga's arguments are good, which we didn't talk about at all, but which would have triggered some…

Experiment: Open Peer Review

There is another new online biology journal out there, Biology Direct. This journal is particularly interesting because its stated policy is to provide authors and readers of research articles with a novel system of peer review. This system includes making the author responsible for obtaining reviewers' reports via the journal's Editorial Board; making the peer review process open rather than anonymous; and publishing the reviewers' reports along with the articles, thus increasing both the responsibility and the reward of the referees and eliminating sources of abuse in the refereeing…

What Does Your Birthdate Mean?

Your Birthdate: January 31 You're a pretty traditional person. If it's lasted, it's probably good. You seek stability - both in your career and your romantic relationship. In return, you're very loyal and predictable. Which is usually a good thing. Without a partner, you feel lost. Being with someone is very important to you. Your strength: Your dependability Your weakness: You hate being alone Your power color: Midnight blue Your power symbol: Shell Your power month: April What Does Your Birth Date Mean? Another stupid internet quiz. It's good for a laugh, but it is absolutely…

How is Your Punctuation and Grammar?

tags: grammar, punctuation, online quiz You Scored an A You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, you're annoyed when people make simple mistakes on their blogs. As far as people with bad grammar go, you know they're only human. And it's humanity and its current condition that truly disturb you sometimes. The It's Its There Their They're Quiz How did you score? And how did the authors of this quiz guess that basic punctuation and grammar mistakes on blogs can drive me to distraction?

think globally act erratically

I have family (in-laws) and lots of old friends in SoCal, so I checked in on the fires on-line this morning - looks bad. But, really, it is a local disaster, right? At lunch the e-mail came in - the San Diego Supercomputer Center is erratic and heading for going down later today. Don't expect it will be up to much this week. Staff were ordered to stay home, power is "erratic"... dammit. We have 100,000 hours to burn on that big iron, this semester, it can't burn down. SDSC just e-mailed. All systems down at noon local time...

Who Do You Think Will Die in Harry Potter Book Seven?

tags: online poll, Harry Potter Here is a poll for you to answer regarding Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to JK Rowling, the author, two main characters will die in this book, so I have decided to ask you who you think will die in this book? Why do you think those people will die? Feel free to leave comments below. This poll will only be available until Saturday evening (July 21st) sometime, when I will collect the results and post them, along with who really dies. Poll closed. Go here to see the poll results. Thanks for voting!

Anthro Blog Carnival

The eighty-sixth Four Stone Hearth blog carnival is on-line at Testimony of the Spade. Catch the best recent blogging on archaeology and anthropology! Submissions for the next carnival will be sent to Krys at Anthropology in Practice. All bloggers with an interest in the subject are welcome to volunteer to me for hosting. The next vacant hosting slot is on 10 March. It's a good way to gain readers. No need to be an anthro pro. And don't miss Ed Yong's piece on the first genome for a prehistoric human, a Bronze Age Greenlander who's spent 4000 years in permafrost!

Marzipan Gold Hoard

In 1995 a gold hoard was found at Vittene in Norra Björke parish, Västergötland. Its contents had been amassed over two centuries, and it was committed to the earth in the 3rd century AD. A fine book on the find and subsequent settlement excavations has recently been published and is available in full on-line. Below is a picture of the Vittene hoard. Above is a picture of a replica of the hoard made of marzipan and gold leaf by Sören Elmqvist for the 1995 Christmas market at the county museum. Thanks to Niklas Ytterberg for the tipoff.

Fornvännen's Autumn and Winter Issues On-line

Is this part of the Stone of Mora? After some issues with the image resolution in the PDFs, we've now put Fornvännen 2010:3-4 on-line. Read new research for free! Middle Neolithic festival site in Scania Roman bronze coinage found in the woods of northern Sweden Roman mirror shard found on the coast of Western Bothnia Pre-demolition documentation of a richly be-muralled Medieval church in SmÃ¥land produced in the 1820s 1st millennium AD gardening Thieves, counterfeiters and murderers in Birka What happened to the Stone of Mora onto which Medieval Swedish kings were hoisted at their…

How unusual was autumn 2006 in Europe?

Gosh this is fun... you wait ages for a paper on a warm event and then 2 come along together :-). Anyway, thanks to FB for pointing out How unusual was autumn 2006 in Europe? in Climate of the Past. This is almost but not quite the same thing as the 2003 event so I had all the code ready and submitted a little comment. Since its on-line open access you can see it, just click on the interactive discussion. Looking in the Chase et al. style hemispheric context, 2006 doesn't look so unusual, even when looking at T1.5m.

Testing…

You scored as Scientific Atheist, These guys rule. I'm not one of them myself, although I play one online. They know the rules of debate, the Laws of Thermodynamics, and can explain evolution in fifty words or less. More concerned with how things ARE than how they should be, these are the people who will bring us into the future. Scientific Atheist 100% Militant Atheist 67% Angry Atheist 50% Spiritual Atheist 50% Apathetic Atheist 42% Agnostic 42% Theist 17% What kind of atheist are you?created with QuizFarm.com (via…

Fornvännen's Autumn Issue On-Line

14th century pilgrim's badge of St. Bridget found in the River Fyris at Uppsala. Fornvännen 2015:3 is now on-line on Open Access. Lars Larsson on an unusual Late Neolithic burial monument at the record-breaking 1st millennium site of Uppåkra. Christina Fredengren on deposition of human and animal bodies in the waters of inland Uppland. Lars Liedgren and Ingela Bergman on a previously unpublished 1921 excavation of a Late Medieval farmstead near Luleå. Birgit Maixner on the confusing and counterproductive results of Norwegian counties interpreting heritage law regarding metal detector…