Friday Varia and Quick Hits

More snow here in North Dakotaland, but the good news is that it feels like -45, so there’s nothing much motivating me to go outside. Instead I’m hunkered down by the fire with coffee, a couple of dogs, a warm blanket, and a vacuum tube amplifier.

That being said, I won’t be tempted to go outside or even leave my chair. Things might get done today. 

And things are happening. Check out the cover for volume 85 of North Dakota Quarterly featuring a photo by UND History student Wyatt Atchley. I’m excited to see it in the flesh.

In the meantime, check out some quick hits and varia:

• Mystery Woman in an Early Christian Cemetery (hint: she’s an archaeologist).

• Translation.

• Ancient Greece for Modern Cooks.

• If you don’t fail enough in life, learn a foreign language.

• Reading Byzantine Greece.

• Reassembling Artifacts with 3D Scans.

• Virtual Archaeology Review.

• The Decline of Historical Thinking.

• Admit that you were wrong.

• Some stuff on audio:

Ways of Hearing (the podcasts are great, by the way).

The latest report from the frontline of the loudness wars.

Coal to Coltrane.

Qobuz sounds great.

Audio Fur.

• Pig watch.

• Crazy Ice Surfer Guys.

• What I’m reading: Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, The Politics of Mass Digitization. (2018).

• What I’m listening to: Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth.