Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It may be Friday, but to be honest, I’m not entirely sure. It feels like some day that ends in “y.”

Some things have changed since last Friday, though. First, Crystal Alberts and the UND Writers Conference arranged for Paul Worley to interview Laila Lalami for North Dakota Quarterly. The interview is great and you can read it here.

Second, Milo would like you all to know that he got a new toy. It’s called “Slobber Ball” and is a soft, furry ball with squeakers in it. 

And now for some quick hits and varia:

• More Obbink news.

• Some free books on Byzantium between Orient and Occident.

• Hidden Objects on the Acropolis.

• Juggling the Middle Ages: A Medieval Coloring Book.

• Towards a Digital Sensorial Archaeology of the Trade in Human Remains.

• The resurrection of New York’s St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church.

• Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece.

• Classics After Corona Virus.

• What does Hubble see on your birthday?

• Field Notes on Pandemic Teaching.

• COVID and the Digital Divide.

• Weekly Periodicity in Italy’s COVID-19 Tests.

• Mike Davis on Pandemics.

• Cannonball and Corona Virus.

• The Last Train Trip Before Everything Changed.

• Headphone music.

• Two watch companies:

Detroit Watch Company.

One Eleven’s Earth Day Watch.

• What I’m reading: William Gibson, Agency. (2020).

• What I’m listening to: Laura Marling, Song for our Daughter.