Friday Varia and Quick Hits

With the field season right around the corner and a stack of ornery, unfinished projects staring at me, the last thing I needed was a string of days in the mid-70s with low humidity and a very eager dog. But, despite my best efforts, I can’t control the weather or the dog, so my productivity this week ground to an awkward halt as I took in some vigorous rounds of late afternoon “ram ball,” “ram elephant,” and “ram gross and wet rawhide” with the yellow dog.

I did, however, manage to set aside a bit of time to make a list of quick hits and varia. I’d like to humbly recommend listening to our most recent podcast as well!

• Heroism in the Greek immigration crisis.

• Some Blegen.

• Greek Jews in the WW II resistance. 

• From the ASOR blog: a popular summary of recent work at Caesarea Maritima.

• Real currency in virtual worlds.

• How the AHA is thinking about digital scholarship. 

• The difference between digital history and digital humanities.

• Digital Humanities: the tower of Babel.

• Digital History: A digital history project on the oral history of a lost African-American neighborhood in Richmond, Virginia.

• Why we need an independent digital humanities.

• The story of the North Pacific Railroad car in the gravel quarry in Montraill County. 

• What’s this?

• Congratulations to Sharon Carson!

• Katmandu in the 1970s.

• Seaweed farms in South Korea from space.

• The End of the College Essay?

• Perhaps the best document on the web.

• 40 Years of the American Home.

• Early experiments in sound.

• The UNESCO International Jazz Day 2015 concert. 

• What I’m reading: Steve Martens and and Ronald Ramsay, Buildings of North Dakota. University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia 2015. 

• What I’m listening to: Alabama Shakes, Sound and Color.

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