Little Waterfall and Autumn Leaves wallpaper Scuba diving to the depths of human history The field of underwater archaeology is perhaps best known for unearthing relics from more recent history, like Henry VIII’s ship the Mary Rose, yet the seabed is stuffed with clues to prehistory too – especially a murky period 11,500 years ago, at the [...]
Panoramic photo by Min Heo . This Museum was officially opened in 1868 and became known as Gedung Gajah (Elephant House) or Gedung Arca (House of Statues). It was called Gedung Gajah on account of the bronze elephant statue in the front yard donated by King Chulalongkorn from Thailand in 1871. (You can see the statue in this picture) It was also called Gedung Arca because a great variety of statues...
In the 80s, Israel Scheffer and Nelson Goodman engaged in a long polemic about Goodman’s anti-realist claims. Goodman was a robust relativist, Scheffer, a pluralist-realist. Scheffer asked how it was possible, in Goodman’s schema, to account for stars, for instance, which long preceded the existence of man. Did men make up stars? Goodman, in “Starmaking” replied: “Let's...
No, this is not a post about the "eating fat causes heart disease" fantasy, nor is it a post about Going Rogue , but the issue I am going to discuss here shares features with those topics the Low Carb community has been very resistant to confronting. The issue is this: The very same people who spend hours hunting through overlooked but well-designed published medical research to provide us...
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The White Horse, Ampfield, Hampshire , originally uploaded by Mike Cattell . The White Horse is situated on a slight bend in the main road that runs between Romsey and Winchester. It benefits from having a large garden that overlooks the downs and meadows of Hampshire and is next to both the village cricket ground, the recreation area and an 18 hole par 3 golf course. Ampfield is set in beautiful countryside...
Original Forgotten Realms logo, 1987-2001. The History of the Forgotten Realms In 1967, the then-eight-year-old Ed Greenwood started writing stories for his own amusement about dragons and elves. Over the next few years the stories gained a coherent setting, a world Greenwood called the Realms, and when he got into the Dungeons and Dragons game a decade or so later, he adapted the Realms as a setting...
By J. Baez and A. Lauda: This paper traces the growing role of categories and n-categories in physics, starting with groups and their role in relativity, and leading up to more sophisticated concepts which manifest themselves in Feynman diagrams, spin networks, string theory, loop quantum gravity, and topological quantum eld theory. Our chronology ends around 2000, with just a taste of later developments...
A new society devoted to Aegean prehistory. Description from the official website and Facebook group . Aegeus - Society of Aegean Prehistory was officially established on 30 April 2009 as a non-profit organization with research, cultural and educational objectives. Some of the aims of the Society are: 1. The study, research and dissemination of prehistoric archaeology of the Aegean and the neighboring...
Kelle Groom recently agreed to an interview with myself and 32 Poems . And here is what she had to say. How would you introduce yourself to a crowded room eager to hang on your every word? Are you just a poet, what else should people know about you? I also write personal essays/memoir. For the last year, I’ve been poetry editor for The Florida Review , and have now shifted into an advisory editor...
I 've just spent the last hour and a half, crying and laughing at the Disney/ Pixar film Up. It's got to be one of the most heart-warming and funny family films I've seen in a long time. As usual Pixar prove that they are masters of computer animation, this is a work of genius. This movie had me crying within 10 minutes and laughing moments later. The story follows Carl, a pensioner, who decides to...
Press Release 2010 sees the launch of the series “Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World” It is a pilot project for a combination of Open Access with publisher supervision Berlin, 23rd June 2009 From 2010 onwards de Gruyter will be publishing the series “Topoi. Berlin Studies of the Ancient World”. It will encompass all the disciplines of Ancient Studies, from prehistory...
CONTEMPORARY POETICS "Redefining the Boundaries of Contemporary Poetics, in Theory & Practice, for the Twenty-First Century" Edited by Louis Armand ISBN 0-8101-2359-2 (paperback). 384pp. Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Evanston. http://nupress.northwestern.edu Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study--a field that in fact shares territory...
On Science In Amnesia "Civilization is older than we suppose." -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "Man is civilized only when he remembers his yesterday...." -- -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "During the past three or four hundred years science has been rediscovered rather than discovered." -- Andrew Tomas, author, 1971 "Our science has only rediscovered and perfected old...
The photos above are from 1979 and 2003. Generations of European navigators tried unsuccessfully to find the fabled passage to Asia above North America. It may well have been open to sailors in prehistory; it's open now to icebreakers, and perhaps transiently for cargo vessels in the summer. Soon it may be freely navigable. Link .
It's amazing how stupid an intelligent man can be. Prof Nutt sounds a bit of a Richard Dorkins - a very clever chap who has trouble understanding people. Earlier this week Prof Nutt used a lecture at King's College, London, to attack what he called the "artificial" separation of alcohol and tobacco from illegal drugs. The professor said smoking cannabis created only a "relatively small...
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