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Temple Grandin, Kinds of Minds and SETI
You’ll see me put up more TED videos over the next few months. I’ve had one in the drafts folder since Christmas, but I need some photos to go with it, and haven’t had the chance to get them. The prod...
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Are Extraterrestrials a Greek thing?
I had a slight worry earlier today. I have an idea that I think has cross-over relevance between SETI and Ancient History about ancient speculations on extraterrestrial life. I was slightly alarmed...
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Preserving a culture in wild honey
“What is heritage?” sounds like the kind of essay question a lecturer might set when they run out of inspiration. It depends where you ask it. In some places it’s a question that carries a sting for...
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Debunking Academics
Duty Calls by xkcd I have some sympathy with alternative archaeologists when it comes to debunking. It’s common to see bloggers debunking their work, but not so much other academics. One reason for...
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Michael E. Smith lays down an interesting challenge at Publishing Archaeology: What are the hard problems in Archaeology? What questions haven’t archaeologists answered and aren’t likely to answer any...
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Planets and Anomalies in the Antikythera Mechanism
Mathematicians have a concept, Omega, that is defined as something so huge that any attempt to define it actually defines something smaller. In a similar vein I reckon that any attempt to describe the...
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Astronomy at Ston̈ehen̈ge for the 2010 Summer Solstice
I’ve been busy, recently and I’m likely to stay that way for a while, hence the lack of posts. Still, I’m hoping to be able to take a trip to Stonehenge this year to see the solstice. That’s why my...
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8000 years of genetic engineering in your fruitbowl
More blogging about research, without a Research Blogging logo, because this is way outside my area of expertise — but it looks interesting. I spotted it going through the accepted papers list at...
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Copernicus and the Star that was bigger than the Universe
I’ve been trying to watch Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I’ve never seen it and it’s proving to be a bit of a struggle. He definitely can write. Some of the sequences are fantastic, but some of it is badly...
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The earliest astronomers?
The short version of this post is that Astronomy in the Upper Palaeolithic? by Hayden & Villeneuve is a great paper. If you’re interested in astronomy in hunter-gatherer societies you should read...
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