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The recent launch of the Curiosity Mars rover has quietly broken the record for oldest human-made object in space, and instantly pulled numismatics, the study of coinage, into the Space Age. Prior to...
As a schoolboy I read the first original play performed publically written in Swedish, Urban Hiärnes Rosimunda (1665). Me and my friend Tor loved the absurd spelling, the odd changes that had occurre...
Dear Reader Fiona asked me to write more about archaeology, which reminded me that I havent said much about what Ive been doing in my study these past months. I find that the last time was actually i...
Ive been following Roy Zimmermans output of musical satire since his 2004 album Faulty Intelligence, and I was certainly not disappointed by the recent Youre Getting Sleepy. The CDs title is shared w...
Dungeon: a massive inner tower in a Medieval castle or a dark usually underground prison or vault. Traceable back to Latin dominus, lord. Dudgeon: a wood used especially for dagger hilts or a fit or ...
British Archaeology #122 (Jan/Feb) has a good feature on the origins of Roman London, presenting and collating evidence from excavations in the 90s and 00s for a military camp immediately post-dating...
Dear Reader, remember the remote-controlled Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity? How long is it since the last time you thought of them? Opportunity landed on Mars eight Earth calendar years ago toda...
Car question. When I turn on my windshield wipers, the energy for those two step motors comes from the battery. And it comes to the battery from the gas tank via the alternator. This means that if I ...
25-26 February. Blankaholm, Swedish East Coast archaeology conference, speaking about picture stones 7-9 March. Danish Viborg, Bronze Age burial conference 15-17 March. Paris, European Archaeological...
Its time we had a de-lurk around this here blog! The last one was a year ago. If you keep returning to this blog but rarely or never comment, you are a lurker, Dear Reader, and a most welcome one too...
When I was 16 in 1988 I spent a couple of days in Paris with a language school. I brought the address for a game store, one that advertised in White Dwarf magazine. It was on Rue Poirier de Narcay, w...
Im on the latest instalment of the Skeptics Guide podcast talking about the Mora/Orsa electrophobia case and the Obscurantist of the Year anti-award. I also mention a bunch of upcoming European skept...
Saltpetre, potassium nitrate, is added to food to give meat products a nicer colour. One winter in the 70s when we were living in Connecticut, my dad went to a New York drug store to buy saltpetre fo...
When I was a kid I enjoyed playing the 1984 computer war game Sun Tzus Ancient Art of War. Last spring I visited Tiger Hill in Suzhou where there is a small temple to the great strategists memory. Th...
Went to bed with a headache, woke up intermittently during the night to find it still there, and got up in the morning with the same headache or one very similar to it. So I took an aspirin, which st...
The Swedish Skeptics, of whom I am the chairman, have just announced their annual awards for 2011 [a - b]. The Swedish public TV show Hjärnkontoret receives the Enlightener of the Year award,"......
When a buddy of mine learned that I keep stats on the boardgames I play, she said, "If I didnt know you, Martin, Id say you probably suffered from Aspergers syndrome." But hey, Boardgamegeek....
Here are my best reads in English during 2011. I only read 38 books this year (blame the Internet), which is why the really good ones are fewer than usual.Bonk. The curious coupling of sex and scienc...
I began blogging at Blogspot a bit more than six years ago. And five years ago to the day, Aard went live here on Sb! Blogging and the interaction with you, Dear Reader, are a continuing source of da...
Im spending this week in a semi-vegetative state: sleeping late, taking walks at noon with my wife & kids, eating chocolate, drinking tea, and reading. Heres my late-2011 selection of reading matter....
My current project on the siting of Bronze Age sacrificial sites aims to rediscover some of the the periods landscape rules. In other words, Im building an heuristic model which might allow archaeolo...
Place is a new Swedish boardgame, the first offering from Spelmakarna i Sverige Ltd who are based near my home. After reading about their product in the local paper, I asked them for a review copy, w...
The memory of Herman Lundborg (1868-1943) is insolubly linked to the Swedish State Institute of Eugenics that he headed, and thus lives in infamy. Eugenics was the pseudoscientific belief that human ...
The Dear Reader may remember that I recently reported from the hibernation grounds of the local yachting club. Heres a photograph from the same site, taken by my dad. It demonstrates why you might wa...
Today is my sixth birthday as a blogger! Normally these days I would use Twitter and Facebook for such a brief message, but it is after all blog-related. Here also are the latest pics of an Aard read...
As an archaeologist I often need to plot coordinates on maps and plans. At every scale, really: from individual finds on the plan of an excavation trench to the distribution of something across Europ...
This song is just irresistable. Check out The Kinnardlys web site. Thanks to the Spiel gaming podcast for the tip-off. Always good tunes between segments there! Read the comments on this post...
Been a while since I wrote one of these. Heres what I did for fun this past weekend.Attended an afternoon scifi mini-convention at the Tech Museum, organised by my dear old Tolkien Society buddy and ...
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