Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s been a quiet week for blogging (and for reading my blog!), but I couldn’t resist checking in with my dedicated readers down the stretch run of the calendar year.

(And just so you know, I did start a number of blog posts and read over a file full of drafts this past week and was tempted yesterday to finish a blog titled “Teaching Graduate Historiography”. It’ll appear next week.)

In the meantime, I’ll offer up a little list of quick hits and varia to keep my readers happy and busy over the weekend.

• The relocation of Roma Tomb 313 at Corinth. Video!

• Lawrence of Arabia as archaeologist. (Not to be confused with Lawrence of Euphoria.)

• The sad state of the monastery of Ay. Aberkios.

• The Christmas of 1923 (or lack thereof) in Greece.

• A pretty fly simulation of the relationship between the Obelisk of Montecitori and the Ara Pacis.

• Peter Shultz and Spencer Pope on the Chryselephantine Doors of the Parthenon.

• Greece’s brain drain.

• The Economist looks at museums.

• A Pdf/Powerpointer summarizing some points from the University of Pennsylvania’s recent study of their Coursera MOOCs.

• Peer review is a tool.

• Millinerd’s 10th Christmas. Makes me feel like a spring chicken.

• On the other hand, the blog is dead. Long live the blog.

• What I’m reading: Vivek Chibber, Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital. Verso 2013.

• What I’m listening to: Wooden Shjips, Back to Land; Waxahatchee, Cerulean Salt.