Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s the last Friday of the semester and it’s leading into a beautiful weekend.

There is a stack of grading awaiting me this weekend, but there will be some fun as the MLB season continues with the Phillies visiting Cleveland. The NBA playoffs have proven to be particularly fascinating this year and I’ll do what I can to catch the next installment of the Knicks-Celtics series. I look forward to the Emanuel Navarrete-Charly Suarez tilt on Saturday night (and a generally good day for boxing on Saturday). 

In the end, this weekend is not about baseball, basketball, or boxing, but about grading and preparing for travel.

In the meantime, here are some quick hits and varia:

• A sanctuary of Apollo at Tamassos.

• Searching for the Goddess: Six Greek Artists of African Descent.

• When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus.

• Pseudo-Archaeology, UFOs, and the Need for Authentic Skepticism.

• Lauren Mancia’s Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method (2025).

• “For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper.”

• Living Maps Network.

• RIP Andy Bey.

• What I’m reading: Grading, but looking forward to my summer reading list! 

• What I’m listening to: Horace Silver’s United States of Mind trilogy.