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MM Friday - Amygdaloids

This Friday is a holiday (in America, at least) and what's better on a holiday than a rerun? Yay for reruns. So, I've written about the Amygdaloids before, but here's an introduction video in case you didn't see it (or want to enjoy it again). Also, this band of rockin' cognitive scientists has a CD available now. The Amygdaloids: Live concert at Union Hall Preview their new CD here (buy it here) alongside descriptions of each brain-based song. "Past lovers often leave strong and enduring memories. 'A Trace' tells a story about this. Memory researchers in the know will figure out that the…

Book Review: Should Bloggers Stop Bush-Hating?

This is Politics Tuesday and the Ocean Champions should be by any moment. In the meanwhile, I found something politically charged and provocative over at Salon.com. Joan Walsh reviews Matt Bai's book The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, which she describes as a "heralded anatomy of Democratic disarray in the Bush years". Bai implicates left-wing bloggers in what he sees as a two-part crime that will cripple the Democratic party: the failure to put together a big, bold social policy for the 21st century, and the "disabling hatred" of George W.…

Our Best Answer to Expelled: Flock of Dodos

This is not to knock the very important Expelled Exposed website. But in my opinion, in this day and age you really have to answer film with more film--and entertaining film with more entertaining film. Ben Stein is very intellectually dishonest in Expelled, but he's also funny. Luckily, Randy Olson's 2006 documentary Flock of Dodos is also funny--and charming, and humane. So for people who might want to learn about evolution and actually be entertained at the same time, it seems to me the best answer that we currently have to Expelled. My advice would be to go buy a lot of DVD copies, and…

List of Links

Here is what I am reading: In honor of the 100th anniversary of the FDA, the Scientist has a look at its long-term prospects in light of recent scandals. Best Buy has decided to go to totally flexible scheduling. I feel like business came to the party late on this one. Science had had flex-scheduling forever, and we are doing just fine. All it requires is a little trust and not caring when people get their work done, just that they get it done. The NYTimes has a interesting article on the diminishing number of cases taken by the Supreme Court and speculation as to why that might be. Daniel…

Poke and Prod Your Insect Prisoners with the Solar Insect Theater

When Benny and I were little, we used to bait a large Havahart trap and leave it in the backyard overnight. We caught squirrels, possums and raccoons. Half the fun was the surprise of what might be inside when we woke up the next day. The game ended the morning we discovered we had caught a skunk... The Solar Insect Theater is kind of the same idea, just with less risk of skunk capture and extraction. Basically it's a wooden bug box with a solar powered light that charges during the day and lures insects at night. The insects "can leave anytime they want" although most naturally choose to…

New York Articles 'collects' content from another (sic) sites, sells ads, clogs cyberspace.

As you might guess, my site is one of the sources of content. If you're reading this post at New York Articles (or at "Articles", whose tagline is even more grammatically incorrect) rather than at my actual site, you are partaking of a suboptimal experience. I'm not going to give you the URL for the lesser, because there is no value-added to speak of, unless you count the pennies that come in to the leech that grabs the RSS and sells the Google Ads.* Does such a site do anything to improve an already crowded blogosphere? Does anyone treat a sloppy feed aggregating site of this sort as a…

Which Kindle Do You Really Want Now?

Which Kindle should you buy (or beg the relatives to give you for your birthday)??? The Regular 6 inch Kindle or the fancier Kindle DX? It is said that the two extant technologies .... Kindle-like low power ePaper displays vs "real tablet computers" will merge. I'm sure this is true. It is just as sure as the fact that almost every computer monitor sold to the average customer is the shiny hard to read kind instead of the more functional non-shiny kind. And when the technologies merge, the marketing departments will grin and the users will squint. Does any of this matter to you now?…

Huh

I woke up this morning and the internet told me ... According to this map, I live between Hasty and "I'm Alone" but I have relatives near Grouse, Knocemstiff, Weed Patch and Heist. Will BP oil increase cancer on oiled beaches? Possibly. This should be obvious, but there is now some support for the idea: Children raised by lesbians 'have fewer behavioural problems' In case you've been waiting, Unscientific America in Paperback!. I just go mine. It's small, and papery. Perfect for beach reading. If you are a PZ Myers fan, this is a must read, but you'll probably want to borrow it rather…

Don't forget: The Skeptics' Circle is fast approaching

Listen up, everyone! It's fast approaching. Yes, The Skeptics' Circle will be appearing next Thursday over at The Second Sight. EoR did a bang-up job the last time the Circle was held at The Second Sight; so I expect as great or even better this time around. But your best skeptical blogging is needed. Instructions to submit your work to EoR are here. Guidelines for what we're looking for can be found here. As EoR says, don't be a complete idiot; do it for Deepak. (Yikes! That last one is rather scary. I might have to save it for the next time I take on some Choprawoo.) And, of course, I'm…

$10 Million to Decode Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade is up to his old antics, blabbering about a contest to award $10 million to the first person to decode 100 genomes in 10 days. Only he means 'sequencing' rather than 'decoding'. But he still thinks they're synonyms: "The announcement of the prize brought together two former rivals, Drs. J. Craig Venter of the Venter Institute and Francis S. Collins, head of the National Human Genome Research Institute, which financed the government project to sequence, or decode, the genome." The 100 genomes in 10 days contest is brought to you buy the people who gave away $10 million to the…

Back to life

Sorry for the long delay between posts. I was robbed at the beginning of the month, losing my laptop, passport, other pieces of digital technology and identification, house keys, work keys, pens, papers, business cards and so forth. I'm just now catching up with all the real-life work that piled up during the seven-days-without-a-computer phase. I have some posts queued up, trying to finish out the lengthy series on copyright and databases. And I am going to try to write something approaching a final summary on why I don't like licensing as an approach for databases, instead preferring the…

Why I will never vote for Barack Obama

I can vote for a Christian politician, no problem. I have even liked Obama's sense of vision (although it seems he's been a bit of a flop in execution.) His latest speech, though… And if we're going to do that then we first need to understand that Americans are a religious people. 90 percent of us believe in God, 70 percent affiliate themselves with an organized religion, 38 percent call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people in America believe in angels than they do in evolution. If a liberal Democratic politician wants to buy into the foolish idea that Christians…

Yay, Presents!

Yesterday I received a large package by mail from Dear Reader Twoflower in New York. He'd asked me for my address, and I was expecting a book or an off-print, but the minute I saw the box I realised I had been wrong. Guess what he sent me. Apparently, I have pained Twoflower by publishing ugly pics of nice finds and fieldwork here. I believe that specifically, this pic and this pic hurt his sense of archaeological aesthetics: a lovely new find, shot first with a spade for scale and then with an ugly folding rule. Well, Twoflower, you kind and generous man, thanks to you I will no longer have…

Powers of Ten Concert to Kick off the USA Science and Engineering Festival!!

Thanks to Festival Partner University of Maryland for helping us get the word out about the Festival and the Powers of Ten Concert and Streaming it LIVE! Find out more here on their website. USA Science & Engineering Festival Opens with Live Powers of Ten Concert Festival of Science and Technology - Opening Program: The Powers of Ten - A Journey in Song from Quark to Cosmos.WHAT: Powers of Ten - A Journey in Song from Quark to Cosmos : Opening program of the USA Science & Engineering Festival. WHEN: Sunday, October 10, 2010, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Elsie and Marvin…

penny wise

when making sausage, you not only have to get the guts to stuff with ground up meat and grain, you also have to mix in some small lumps of fat and minced offal From a "heads-up" e-mail from the ScienceDebate 2008 team: "I am writing to alert you to efforts underway this morning to zero out a large portion of the science funding from the Senate American Reinvestment and Recovery Act as a part of a $77.9B reduction effort led by Senators Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Susan Collins (R-ME). As you know better than most, science and technology are responsible for half of the economic development of the…

Skeptics' Circle 68

Welcome to Aardvarchaeology and the 68th Skeptics' Circle blog carnival! For first-time visitors, let me say that this is a blog about whatever runs through the mind of a skeptical research archaeologist based in Stockholm, Sweden. For first-time carnivalers, let me explain that here, skepticism means to not believe anything without good reason, and to reserve judgement in uncertain cases. This carnival is about reason and critical thinking from all around the world. Onward to glory! Swiss blogger Christian at Med Journal Watch discusses a study of US preterm birth whose authors draw poorly…

Memory and swearing

I have a vague memory of having written something about curse words on Cognitive Daily before. However, I'm almost certain I've never written about false memories in children. Maybe something about eyewitness testimony, but not false memories. You probably know the punch line: I've written about all those things. So why do I remember the study about swearing better than the others? Chris at Mixing Memory discusses a study which shows that we remember both "taboo words" -- and the context in which they were presented -- better than other words. The six-experiment study involved memorizing…

Using a bad virus to do something good

If you're interested in biology and not reading Sandra Porter's Discovering Biology in a Digital World, you should be. As she notes in her profile, her passion is "developing instructional materials for 21st century biology," and it shows--she provides all kinds of little online experiments you can run yourself, even with minimal knowledge of molecular biology. She's recently finished a 4-part series on HIV. The experiment in a nutshell, as she notes: We are going to compare a protein sequence from a wild type, drug-sensitive, HIV virus with protein sequences from HIV samples that were…

Phlogiston

One of the nice benefits of hosting ScienceOnline conferences is that I sometimes get presents. The one that I find totally fascinating that I got this year is the 2009 issue of Phlogiston, the Journal of History of Science published once a year in Serbian language - print only (the journal does not even have a homepage). I got this issue from Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailovic who came all the way from Serbia to do a session on challenges to Open Access in developing countries together with her friend and colleague Tatjana Jovanovic-Grove. The 2009 issue of Phlogiston is dedicated to Darwin and the…

Volunteering to help girls with the National Girls Collaborative Project

The National Girls Collaborative Project, as you might guess from the title, focuses on helping girls and engaging girls in science, technology, engineering, and math (aka "STEM"). photos used with permission from NGCP Quoting from the NGCP website, (the emphasis is mine): Numerous programs and initiatives seek to create gender equity in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have been implemented only to lose effectiveness or fade away. Had these programs had the benefit of collaboration with other girl-serving projects, organizations and institutions, and…

2014 Castle Excavation Reports

Things are coming together with the post-excavation work for last summer's castle investigations so I'm putting some stuff on-line here. I've submitted a paper detailing the main results to a proceedings volume for the Castella Maris Baltici symposium in Lodz back in May. There are no illustrations in the file, but you'll find all you need here on the blog in various entries tagged ”Castles”. Osteologist Rudolf Gustavsson has completed his reports on the bones from the two sites (Landsjö – Stensö). For the Dear Reader who doesn't read Swedish, a short summary of Rudolf's results is in order…

More health news from Canada

For your Saturday morning reading pleasure, here are two articles following up on my dichloroacetate (DCA) and bogus internet pharmacy death posts this week. Each was recommended by my clandestine operative from the Great White North, PharmCanuck: Canadian cancer society warns of untested drug Heather Logan, the director of cancer control policy at the society who trained as a nurse, has worked with people fighting to prolong their lives. Logan said she sympathizes with those who are buying the drug and mixing it at home as a last resort, but stresses there are serious safety concerns. "The…

Bibliography Tool: Zotero

This is good.   href="http://www.getfirefox.net/">Firefox now has an extension that makes it simple to store all your bibliographic information from online research.   It is at release candidate 3 stage now, well-developed and fully functional.  It is called href="http://www.zotero.org/" rel="tag">Zotero.  It is bundled with the " href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/add-ons/campus/">Campus Edition" (the best thing since ramen noodles) of Firefox, but it can be installed easily into any version on Linux, OS X, or even Windows machines. From an article at href="http://www.…

Another NNB Pub Night

Unfortunately I'll be out of town, but I encourage anyone in the Boston area to go. Here's the latest from Corie: Hi everyone, The new year is well underway so it's time for another one of the famous Nature Network Boston pub nights! (For those of you new to NNB (http://network.nature.com/boston), the networking website for Boston scientists, we host monthly informal gatherings at a local pub for Boston-area scientists to meet, chat, and have a drink. We believe in online networking, but we also believe in old-fashion facetime...with a bit of alcohol too.) When: Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 6:…

Eleven (sand)pipers (sand)piping.

My better half and I were able to join friends on a beach walk yesterday. We hiked a little more than five miles from Goleta to Santa Barbara, and along the way we saw at least eleven sandpipers. At least, I think the birds we saw were sandpipers. Perhaps those of you who are birders can help with the identifications. All of the birds we were lumping in the category of sandpipers were wading along the shoreline and periodically poking their beaks in the sand, presumably to harvest and eat some tasty morsels. However, while these birds all looked pretty similar from a distance, on closer…

Alvin has Pilots?

I don't know if you guys caught the comment below from Bruce Strickrott, Chief Pilot of the DSV Alvin. We have been trying to get this guy to write something for Deep Sea News for about a year now. Why? Because Alvin pilots Bruce, Anthony, Gavin, Pat, and Duncan (among others) have gone where no humans have gone before, time and time again. And that's BEFORE they get to work. They are also hilarious fun to hang out with. We're going to be writing lots more about the new Alvin replacement in the coming months. Hopefully Bruce and the guys will chip in with stories from "Nine North" and other…

Tasmanian Tiger mtDNA sequenced?

More ancient DNA, Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species: All the genes that the exotic Tasmanian Tiger inherited only from its mother will be revealed by an international team of scientists in a research paper to be published on 13 January 2009 in the online edition of Genome Research. The research marks the first successful sequencing of genes from this carnivorous marsupial, which looked like a large tiger-striped dog and became extinct in 1936. ... ... "I want to learn as much as I can about why large mammals become extinct because all my friends are large mammals,"…

The ICR Master's of Creation Research: An On Line Teaching Degree

The Texas Based Institute for Creation Research would offer an online degree in Science Education. Approved by a State Advisory Board yesterday, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will consider the degree in January. Could this be why there has been a shakeup at the Texas Higher Education department? The prospect of the ICR offering a degree is at the same time chilling and satisfying. Accroding to NCSE Director Eugenie Scott: They teach distorted science ... Any student coming out from the ICR with a degree in science would not be competent to teach in Texas public schools…

Some more info on basketballs

You know I have trouble letting stuff go, right? I am still thinking about these crazy long basketball shots. Here are some more thoughts. Really, there are two things I am interested in. First, commenter Scott Post suggests that the drag coefficient might be around 0.25 instead of 0.5. I don't know. For the discussion before, it doesn't really matter. My point was to see a numerical model for a falling ball would be similar to the time and distance from the video. Changing the drag coefficient to 0.25 gives values that are still close to the video. So, I still think the video is real…

Palin and the Rise of the Political Televangelist

Last week, The AP described what living the life of Palin is like: Among the perks laid out in the contract, the former Alaska governor will fly first class from Anchorage to California - if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ...," the contract specifies. Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus in Turlock in the Central Valley. During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws. I like bendy straws too! People seem shocked that she's earning so much…

Regulating peanut butter (and lots more): good for business

The financial industry (what's left of it) now knows what the food industry is learning (or never learned; take your pick). Effective regulation is good for business. Or rather, poor regulation is (very) bad for business. Latest exhibit: the gigantic recall of peanut products (international in scope: here's a long list of newly recalled Canadian products) after a relatively modest player (less than 1% of peanut products in US) ran a sloppy operation (for years), wasn't caught and now is dragging down everyone: The economic wallop from a salmonella outbreak in peanut products continues to…

Bushehr Installed

Iran claims Bushehr nuclear power station is "logistically complete" That means it is ready to be loaded with fuel and ought to be just a turn-key from being operational. Russia is reportedly holding back fuel for 2 months, pending UN process. Iran claims it has paid Russia in full and wants the fuel delivered now. Iran is also noting that Russia's delay validated its push to do its own uranium enrichment, with some justification, although it is a bit of a catch-22. Further, Iran announced its intent to tender for another power station, 2GW this time. There are conflicting reports about…

seizure of assets

there was a legal case in Iceland a few years ago, it was an convoluted property rights case, can't remember the details, but it involved who had ownership when there was delivery but no payment nor explicit assumption of ownership and then a third party intercedes anyway, the interesting thing about the case, is that it was decided on precedent case law, from a case from about 1000 years earlier having a continuous constitutional and common law with an extended history can be quite enabling the Vikings were mostly traders, rather than raiders, and property rights were quite important,…

Planktos

A weird one. Planktos is a for-profit company that appears to intend to sequestrate CO2 by causing algal blooms. Anyone with more info on this is invited to comment. And they will sell you CO2 offsets. For example: The average international flight is 9-20 hours long and produces 2 tons of CO2 per passenger. 4 tons of CO2 equivalents will be retired on your behalf to negate 100% of your carbon footprint for this return flight is only $20. How can the average flight be 9-20 hours long and yet produce exactly 2 tons? But more importantly, why should you believe that they ar doing anything to…

The Magazine Experiment: Asimov's, October/ November 2007

The current edition of Asimov's is a double issue, for October and November. This is apprently an annual thing, but whatever the reason for it, I got a magazine with twice as many stories as usual, which probably creates a false impression of the worth of the magazine. I'll have to check out a regular-size version in the future. This is also probably the end of the Magazine Experiment, because I can't find anywhere to buy F&SF around here: their return policy is sufficiently obnoxious that the local SF specialty store won't carry it, and neither Borders nor Barnes & Noble had any…

Links for 2009-10-28

Op-Ed Contributor - Bring Back Basketball's Little Big Men - NYTimes.com "[I]f the N.C.A.A. truly cared about improving colleges instead of settling for the extra year before eligibility that Stern is talking about, it should use its considerable influence to demand that both the N.B.A. and N.F.L. foot the college's bill for training pro athletes by paying a given amount each year for each player successfully drafted from college. The money would go into a fund for academic scholarships at the colleges these players attended. It wouldn't perhaps turn young superstars into student-athletes,…

So nice, and so wrong

What do you do on airplanes? I usually devour a book or two, usually something popcorny and light, sometimes something I need to get read for work. On my trip home from Washington DC, I lucked out: I was handed a book the day I took off, and it turned out to be a damned good read. Jason Rosenhouse is my co-blogger at Scienceblogs — he's a mathematician, but he's also neck-deep in the evolution/creationism wars. He was in town for the Reason Rally (wait: from the description, he left before my talk. Cancel the review, gotta pan him instead…nah, I guess I'll forgive him this one time), and he…

Gore decreases his energy usage so TCPR lies about it

Last year the Tennessee Center for Policy Research made quite a splash with a press release on Al Gore's energy usage: In 2006, Gore devoured nearly 221,000 kWh--more than 20 times the national average. They've just released figures for the past year In the past year, Gore's home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month. Feel free to check my calculations, but I think that 213,210 is less than 221,000. Honest folks who report this but want to criticize Gore might write something like: "Gore doesn't reduce his…

Happy Giant Panda Day

Today is indeed a momentous day in history. On this day, in 1927, the Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) was discovered by Teh West. It, of course, had previously been known to all those people for tens of thousands of years who lived among, and eated them. This is also Carl Sagan's birthday. He was born in 1934, which seems like billions of years ago. Do you remember Cosmos, first broadcast in 1980? (I always think of it as a few years earlier, but it was not.) Do you remember The Great Blackout of 1965? I do (barely). It was today, but back then. It looked like this: It is not…

How safe is your sushi?

Even if you're not pregnant, you have to be worried about toxic mercury levels in fish. Mercury is a highly reactive heavy metal that's present in raw fish, like sushi, and in canned fish, like tuna. Exposure to toxic levels of can cause damage to the nervous system and the renal system, but long term exposure at lower levels hardens arteries by inactivating antioxidant mechanisms. In fact, high mercury content can diminish the cardiovascular benefits of fish consumption, so eating fish may not benefit your health after all (Guallar et al, 2002, N Engl J Med). So how safe is your sushi?…

The Psychology of Small Cars

From Dan Neil, the wittiest writer in the newspaper business: Desire, the Buddha informs us, is the root of all suffering -- also, a leading cause of alimony, but let's move on. The craving for comfort, luxury, prestige and me-first acceleration drives us to buy more car than we absolutely need to go from point A to point B. And do these cars -- the Maserati Quattroportes, the Porsche Caymans, the Range Rover Sports -- make us happy? Well, yes. Yes, they do. But at what cost, karmically speaking? And for how long? I would point people to a common experience: Call it "rental car phenomenology…

Annals of peanut butter: it keeps getting worse

The peanut butter with a side of salmonella story just keeps getting worse (other posts here, here, here, here, here, here). The toll so far is 8 dead, 575 confirmed salmonella cases (and undoubtedly many more never reported) and 1550 products recalled, one of the largest recalls in US history. The Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) plant in Blakely, Georgia, sold peanut butter in bulk to institutions (like nursing homes and schools) and peanut paste and similar ingredients to many other companies. And even as it did so, its own and government agency records showed there was a problem. The…

Rev. Moon and North Korea

At a time when we are dealing with a growing threat from North Korea, it's probably a good idea to take another look at the relationship between Reverend Moon and the maniacal dictator Kim Jung Il. The investigative reporter Robert Parry has long been following Moon's activities and in October of 2000 he published this report based on the findings of a Defense Intelligence Agency investigation. He reports: Yet, in the 1990s when North Korea was scrambling for the resources to develop missiles and other advanced weaponry, Moon was among a small group of outside businessmen quietly investing…

The Poetry in Science

Poetry is finding its way into our consciousness at the Weizmann Institute: At the recent, fourth annual Science on Tap evening, which the Institute hosts in Tel Aviv, several poets joined in the fun, reading from their work before and after the talks given by scientists in over 60 filled-to-capacity pubs and cafes around the city. And calls have gone out for entries to the Ofer Lider creative writing contest – open to scientists (writing in Hebrew). The contest is named for Prof. Ofer Lider, an Institute scientist who, sadly, died young and who wrote poetry because he believed that…

"Memory," Online

Above, Elvis's famous coif has been pasted over the faces of three famous people. Does the hair make it more difficult to recognize them? You may un-coif the faces at the online "Memory" exhibit produced by San Francisco's interactive museum, Exploratorium. The website includes loads of these kinds of visual demonstrations and memory games, webcasts of lectures from cognitive scientists who specialize in memory research, even an interactive dissection of a sheep's brain. Another section features the paintings and drawings of a local San Francisco artist, Franco Magnani. Magnani, who…

California's declining frogs

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you'll know that 2008 is Year of the Frog (more here), and that several projects - including Amphibian Ark and EDGE - are working to try and save endangered frog and toad species before they become extinct. We need to do all we can to continue to drum up interest in the conservation effort that many of us are now involved in. Quest, a science show at KQED (the PBS station in San Francisco), has just produced a new video concentrating on the decline of Californian Yellow-legged frogs R. boylii (aka Foothill yellow-legged frog, and it's - apparently -…

London Update: One Month Away!

Hey, do you all know what day today is? Today is one month before I will be standing in London England. That's right, one month from this very moment, after having spent the previous night on a redeye from NYC, I will be hanging around with my NATURE blog colleagues and exploring London pubs with a science-y theme (we could still use some pub suggestions!) [Click the icon above to learn more and to register online to attend the conference free!] I am very excited. In fact, I am so excited, I could scream! I am already working on plans for things to see and do [tentative schedule],…

Engineers aren't all bad

If you've got the 29 August issue of Chemical & Engineering News, there's an interesting editorial inside. It seems there has been a flurry of activity on C&EN on the issue of evolution; the editor dismissed the whole idea of intelligent design creationism back in February, saying that it was not an acceptable alternative to the theory of evolution and should not be taught in the schools. He got hammered with forceful complaints from pro-ID engineers, and many letters were published in the April issue. Uh-oh, I hear all the engineers out there groaning, here comes the Salem hypothesis…

Links for 2011-03-29

Nascence at Tobias Buckell Online "New York Times Bestseller Tobias S. Buckell has published 45 short stories in various magazines and anthologies. But in the process of learning how to sell those 45, he wrote over 100 short stories that failed in a variety of ways while learning the craft. In Nascence, he reprints 17 failed stories written from 1996-2004 and details some of the major failings of the stories that led him to abandon them, and what he learned from those failures moving forward." (tags: writing books stories education buckell publishing) the adventure begins... | burgers…

Stockholm Archaeological Museum RSS Feed

The incomparable net-head archaeologist Ulf Bodin directs the highly successful work to put the collections of the Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm (Statens Historiska Museum) on-line. Off and on over the past year, I've worked through the scanned catalogues of two centuries, searching for source material relevant to my work with Late 1st Millennium elite manors in Östergötland. To do this, I only needed to visit the museum once, looking in the flesh at some early acquisitions that weren't described well in the catalogue. So I could have done almost all of the work from anywhere in…