Friday Quick Hits and Varia

It feels like Spring finally here in North Dakotaland with highs in the lower 60s and that particular light when we recognize that the sun is just a little higher in the sky.

Lots of cool stuff this week: we’re soliciting submissions for a special volume of North Dakota Quarterly on the work of Thomas McGrath; we’re moving ahead with the North Dakota Outrage Summit; a cool Kickstarter project, Intersection Journal, and some thoughts on crowdfunding the public humanities; and two pieces thatreflect on slow.

It will be a nice weekend and perfect for some quick hits and varia.

• Yannis Hamilakis on the Greek refugee crisis for The Nation.

• Human remains, fear, and loathing in Athens.

• A video about the restoration of the epiphany of Dionysos mosaic at Dion.

• A funded (!!) podcast on illicitly traded antiquities.

• The study of antiquity through autobiography (a blog by Chuck Jones).

• The traditional and the modern in icon painting.

• A critical review on BMCR. 

• How is it that we’re still talking about the universal museum.

• Roman typography.

• A nice article on “The Scholarship of Twitter” in a new blog series from the MLA.

• Workforce housing in Silicon Valley.

• Check out the most recent version of the North Dakota Humanities Council’s magazine, On Second Thought. Richard Rothaus and I have an article in it.

• Monroe’s mistaken home.

• 1986

• I don’t know what’s better this blog post or the comments section.

• What I’m reading: E. Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. New York 2013.

• What I’m listening to: Kevin Morby, Singing Saw; Ornette Coleman, Beauty is a Rare Thing. 

So bored.