Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Spring in North Dakota comes in like a lion and goes out like delicious grilled lamb. I have no idea what that means, but we’re under some kind of winter storm warning right now. There’s snow, wind, and some kind of airborne slush as well. Happy Spring!

• Stolen fresco from Pompeii, a serious bummer.

• Thanks to the American School of Classical Studies and their efforts to make their journal Hesperia accessible to as many people as possible, there is now more Caraher on the internet.

• The University of California has followed a similar route and finding this book online was very helpful yesterday.

• It’s time for ASOR’s March Fellowship Madness!

• A $1.6 million grant to help Ph.D.s in History prepare better for careers outside of academia.

• Along similar lines, the number of B.A.s in History continue to decline, I think, or something. Where is Nate Silver when we need him (see below).

• Early Christian views of Noah’s Ark.

• Some interesting advice to graduate faculty and graduate students on cultivating collegiality.

• The perils of pretend towns!And here’s another, perhaps more cool, fake town!

• A little bit of punk archaeology.

• People love Nate Silver so much and people love his newly refocused FiveThreeEight site, it’s refreshing to read some critique.

• I just really like Rebecca Solnit’ stuff. And I also like danah boyd.

• What I’m reading: C. Stewart, Domes of Heaven: The Domed Basilicas of Cyprus. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Indiana. 2008. 

• What I’m listening to: War on Drugs, Lost in the Dream; Unwound, Rat Conspiracy; Lanterns on the Lake, Until the Colors Run.

• Read this about the War on Drug’s album.