Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s a rainy Friday morning here in North Dakotaland where it is starting to feel well and truly like fall. This seems like appropriate weather for the start of the academic year.
To kick the new academic year off right, I was pretty excited to release David Pettegrew’s new book, Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey. Weirdly, Facebook has been blocking our efforts to get the word out for some reason, but since you’re here, that probably doesn’t matter all that much. You can download the book for free here. The book is co-published with the ASCSA here.
The NFL starts this week with my Eagles team playing the Green Back Packers in Brazil this evening. The Phils seem to be finding their late season legs and putting some distance between themselves and the squabbling Mets and Braves. My Ohio State guys continue to work through the MAC and hopefully look a bit sharper on Saturday than they did last weekend.
Other than the early season football and lots of little projects, there’s not much else going on right now out here, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have a few quick hits and varia:
Society and Archaeological Sites in Interwar Greece (ht to Kostis Kourelis).
File under: Who woulda thunk it? (And cross reference with Dibble Drama).
Gladiator rebellions and bread strikes: ancient Rome’s labor unions revealed.
Is it Ethical to Continue Excavating the Dead in the Ancient Near East?
An Infantilizing Double Standard for American College Students (ht to Noah Kaye)
The Case for Notebooks (ht to Tom Isern)
Your Name in Landsat (ht to Dimitri Nakassis)
Richard Feynman Creates a Simple Method for Telling Science From Pseudoscience.
What I’m reading: A book manuscript.
What I’m listening to: Horace Silver, United States of Mind.
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