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BBC News - Brown bears return to Chernobyl after a century away - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"Camera traps, used by a project assessing radioactive exposure impacts on wildlife, recorded the images. Brown bears had not been seen in the area for more than a century, although there had been signs of their presence." - maitani - -

"Scientists have captured what is believed to be the first photographic evidence of brown bears within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ)." - maitani - -

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Adoptees' 'lost language' from infancy triggers brain response - Technology & Science - CBC News - http://www.cbc.ca/news...

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It's incredible to think that at only 10-12 months, baby brains are already becoming bound to the language of their environment. - maitani - -

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""It was amazing to see evidence that such an early experience continued to have a lasting effect," said Lara Pierce, lead author of the study published today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in an email to CBC News." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: AWOL milestone - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2014...

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"AWOL passed the three million page views benchmark today. A million in the last eleven months." - maitani - -

"The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available. The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period." - maitani - -

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Overcoming Bias : Authentic =? Accepted - http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014...

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"We usually hear that being “authentic” is to “be yourself”, as opposed to “pretending”. But consider some clues about authenticity:" - maitani - -

"This clue seems especially telling: Subjects sometimes reported feeling more authentic when they acted “out of character” during activities in the lab, such as playing Twister or debating medical ethics. Introverts felt “truer to themselves” when they were acting like extroverts; ditto disagreeable people who were acting agreeable, and careless people who were acting conscientiously. " - maitani - -

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The Classical World from A to Z | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"For over 2,000 years the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome have captivated our collective imagination and provided inspiration for many aspects of our lives, from culture, literature, drama, cinema, and television to society, education, and politics. With over 700 entries on everything and anything related to the classical world in the Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, we created an A-Z list of facts you should know about the time period." - maitani - -

"Baths: Public baths, often located near the forum (civic centre), were a normal part of Roman towns in Italy by the 1st century BC, and seem to have existed at Rome even earlier. Bathing occupied a central position in the social life of the day." - maitani - -

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A working Lego particle accelerator - http://kottke.org/14...

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"Huh. Someone built a working particle accelerator out of Lego bricks. Ok, it doesn't accelerate protons, but it does spin a small Lego ball around the ring much faster than I would have guessed." - maitani - -

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Babies remember nothing but a good time, study says -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"Researchers performed memory tests with 5-month-old babies, and found that the babies better remembered shapes that were introduced with happy voices and faces. Past studies have shown that babies are very tuned to emotions, including the emotions of animals." - maitani - -

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Bronze Age Lost Its Cutting Edge Before Climate Crisis - Truthdig - http://www.truthdig.com/report...

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I was not aware there had ever been a consensus that drought and flooding was /the/ cause. After "the sea peoples did it" went out of fashion, it seems to me they've gone Pete Smith on the problem and just mumble "it's probably a bit more complicated than that" :) - maitani - -

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How could technology diffusion, that would have to take place over a very long time, cause a simultaneous collapse over a very large area? It doesn't make sense. It takes a lot for people to leave their homes, their lives. They would adapt. What could possibly be so compelling about an iron culture that would cause agricultural people to just pick up and move? And we don't see a real iron culture evolve until much later, which means the forces could not have been compelling. And we see people move from coastal settlements high into remote protected areas. That's not a technological consideration. People were afraid. - maitani - -

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3quarksdaily: the pogues: dirty old town - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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The Stoic egg | Scientia Salon - http://scientiasalon.wordpress.com/2014...

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"The annual Stoic Week is approaching [1], so it seems like a good time to return to my ongoing exploration of Stoicism as a philosophy of life. I have been practicing Stoicism since 4 October 2014 [2], and so far so good. I have been able to be more mindful about what I do at any particular moment in my day — with consequences ranging from much less time spent on electronic gadgets to more focused sessions at the gym; I have exercised self-control in terms of my eating habits, as well as with my emotional reactions to situations that would have normally been irritating, or even generating anger; and I feel generally better prepared for the day ahead after my morning meditation." - maitani - -

"I have also spent some time reading Stoic texts, ancient and modern (indeed, I will probably offer a course on Stoicism “then and now” at City College in the Fall of ’15. Anyone interested?). Which in turn has led to an interest in exploring ways to update Stoicism to modern times not only in terms of its practice (where it’s already doing pretty well), but also its general theory, as far as it is reasonable to do so." - maitani - -

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War and Peace in the Bhagavad Gita by Wendy Doniger | The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/article...

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"How did Indian tradition transform the Bhagavad Gita (the “Song of God”) into a bible for pacifism, when it began life, sometime between the third century BC and the third century CE, as an epic argument persuading a warrior to engage in a battle, indeed, a particularly brutal, lawless, internecine war? It has taken a true gift for magic—or, if you prefer, religion, particularly the sort of religion in the thrall of politics that has inspired Hindu nationalism from the time of the British Raj to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today." - maitani - -

"The Gita (as it is generally known to its friends) occupies eighteen chapters of book 6 of the Mahabharata, an immense (over 100,000 couplets) Sanskrit epic. The text is in the form of a conversation between the warrior Arjuna, who, on the eve of an apocalyptic battle, hesitates to kill his friends and family on the other side, and the incarnate god Krishna, who acts as Arjuna’s charioteer (a low-status job roughly equivalent to a bodyguard) and persuades him to do it." - maitani - -

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Eurozine - Geopolitics dressed in the language of law and morals - Rein Müllerson The case of Ukraine - http://www.eurozine.com/article...

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"Methods of research in social science disciplines differ in many ways from those used in the natural sciences. However, it is advisable, even necessary, for the former to try to emulate the methods of the latter in at least one important respect: one should attempt to get as far away as possible from the viewpoint of an activist and as close as possible to the viewpoint of an impartial researcher." - maitani - -

"Reckless military interventions in other countries' affairs are becoming the norm globally. So what hope for international law? After all, argues Rein Müllerson, when it comes to bending and breaching international law, Russia has no lack of excellent examples to follow." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: ASOR Resources online - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2012...

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"In preparation for this week's 2014 Annual Meeting of the American Schools of Oriental Research I have pulled together this short list of open access materials from ASOR:" - maitani - -

"All of the journals of the American School of Oriental Research, under past and present names, are accessible at JSTOR. Early volumes, for which copyright has expired, are available in open access:" - maitani - -

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Evidence based debunking « Mind Hacks - http://mindhacks.com/2014...

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"Fed up with futile internet arguments, a bunch of psychologists investigated how best to correct false ideas. Tom Stafford discovers how to debunk properly." - maitani - -

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Life of the Buddha | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/toah...

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"According to tradition, the historical Buddha lived from 563 to 483 B.C., although scholars postulate that he may have lived as much as a century later. He was born to the rulers of the Shakya clan, hence his appellation Shakyamuni, which means "sage of the Shakya clan." The legends that grew up around him hold that both his conception and birth were miraculous. His mother, Maya, conceived him when she dreamed that a white elephant entered her right side (The Dream of Queen Maya, 1976.402). She gave birth to him in a standing position while grasping a tree in a garden (Birth of the Buddha, 1987.417.1). The child emerged from Maya's right side fully formed and proceeded to take seven steps. Once back in the palace, he was presented to an astrologer who predicted that he would become either a great king or a great religious teacher and he was given the name Siddhartha ("He who achieves His Goal"). His father, evidently thinking that any contact with unpleasantness might prompt Siddhartha to seek a life of renunciation as a religious teacher, and not wanting to lose his son to such a future, protected him from the realities of life." - maitani - -

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Was Maastricht another Versailles for the German nation? A reply to Klaus Kastner | Yanis Varoufakis - http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/2014...

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"Klaus Kastner suggests that Germans cannot sympathise with my analogy of the Greek Bailout as a new Versailles Treaty because many, in Germany, feel that Maastricht was another Verseilles Treaty imposed, by France, upon them. While there is no doubt that France tried, and failed, to adopt a predatory attitude toward Germany (and toward the Bundesbank in particular), the Maastricht-Versailles analogy is unsustainable and patently incorrect – in sharp contrast to the Greek Bailout-Versailles parallelism which is spot on." - maitani - -

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Julian Bream - Lachrimae by John Dowland https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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C.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti (N.Rial - P.Jaroussky) (L'arpeggiata Ensemble) https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Philippe Jaroussky Nuria Rial - Händel: Io t'abbraccio https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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The Jewish Revolt against Rome http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2014...

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"Soon after the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, it became evident that the publication was far too big a project for the local institutions. It was logical that other scholars were invited to join the researchers. From the beginning, Qumranology was an international and multidisciplinary affair." - maitani - -

"Still, the publication of the scrolls proceeded slowly. There is nothing strange about this. A parallel is the non-publication of the tens of thousands of unpublished cuneiform tablets in the British Museum, some of which have been waiting for more than a century. The finds in the Dead Sea caves were not different: thousands of fragments belonging to some 970 scrolls." - maitani - -

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Ancient World Image Bank — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World - http://isaw.nyu.edu/ancient...

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John Oliver's Last Week Tonight is better than The Daily Show and The Colbert Report: Here's why. - http://www.slate.com/blogs...

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Kailash, Heilige Berg der Tibeter - Fotos von Samuel Zuder - SPIEGEL ONLINE - http://www.spiegel.de/reise...

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Pleiades - http://pleiades.stoa.org/home

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"Pleiades gives scholars, students, and enthusiasts worldwide the ability to use, create, and share historical geographic information about the ancient world in digital form. At present, Pleiades has extensive coverage for the Greek and Roman world, and is expanding into Ancient Near Eastern, Byzantine, Celtic, and Early Medieval geography." - maitani - -

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Kīlauea, 1790 and Today - http://www.geosociety.org/news...

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"Boulder, Colo., USA – Scores of people were killed by an explosive eruption of Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i, in 1790. Research presented in GSA Bulletin by D.A. Swanson of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and colleagues suggests that most of the fatalities were caused by hot, rapidly moving surges of volcanic debris and steam that engulfed the victims. Deposits of such surges occur on the surface on the west summit area and cover an ash bed indented with human footprints." - maitani - -

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Antonín Dvořák, Requiem https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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I just attended a performance of Dvořák's Requiem. - maitani - -

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