A busy week

I’ve finally worked out why I feel so rushed. Once reason is that I am rushed, but the other is I’m losing two days a week at the moment going in to various hospitals. Apart from the lack of time I’m feeling fine. I’ve stopped bleeding and hopefully should pass the assessment next week to take chemotherapy.

One thing I’d been planning to record presentations and put them on the web when I’d moved on to the next one, but I’d never got around to producing a final version of the Delphinus presentation. This week I was on the 365 Days of Astronomypodcast for Apollo’s birthday. I needed supporting material for the IScience website, so I finally got round to recording the presentation.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

Sadly that’s around four years out-of-date. There’s a follow-up paper I’m writing which will have information a couple more festivals. I’ve mentioned a connection between Spica and the Thesmophoria before briefly. I had a paper finished, but while polishing it I found it could be improved by looking at it from another perspective. The re-worked version should be finished in June.

Next week I’ll put up another recorded presentation which is about 2 years out-of-date but which is closer the other other paper I’m writing which should be finished at the end of April. At the end of April I hope I’ll be able to post some other news.

In the meantime I can point you to another couple of sites. Andrea Lobel is working on Cultural Astronomy in the ancient Middle East. There’s also LookUP on the Jodcast‘s