Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It’s Black Friday here in North Dakotaland and the gluttony of Thanksgiving is coated with a frigid blanket of freezing fog. It feels like as good a time as any to stay indoors, ready by the fire, get some work done, and enjoy leftovers and lingering scents of the holiday meal. 

It’s also seems like a good time for some quick hits and varia:

• U.S. and UNESCO.

• Akrotiri and Dreamers Bay, Cyprus.

• St. Mark returns to Cyprus.

• Classics in the “flyover” states.

• Twitter Conference.

• Tenea.

• 536 AD was the worst year to be alive.

• 36 Hours in Athens.

• Greek fish translated.

• Drawing History.

• Navigating the Green Book.

• North Dakota and OER.

• Look out for Bagdad at the Center of the World (8th-13th centuries).

• Geospatial Research with R.

• Humans are getting better at Tetris.

• Slow Down by Waiting.

• What I’m reading: Thomas Gallant, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768-1913. Edinburgh 2015.

• What I’m listening to: The Glands, I Can See My House from Here.