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Deep Habits: My Office in the Woods http://calnewport.com/blog...

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"Case in point: I recently found a new hidden work location here on the Georgetown campus that I think trumps any previous spot I’ve found in terms of its ability to eliminate distraction and foster depth:" - maitani - -

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Where have all the craters gone? http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy craters. If Earth weren't so dynamic, its surface would be heavily cratered like the Moon or Mercury." - maitani - -

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The Roman conquest of Greece, in pictures | OUPblog - http://blog.oup.com/2014...

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"This sequence of photos roughly outlines the progress of the Roman takeover of Greece, from the first beginnings in Illyris (modern Albania) in 230 BCE to the infamous “destruction” of Corinth in 146 BCE. The critical figures of this swift takeover were two Macedonian kings, Philip V and Perseus, who were determined to resist Roman aggression. Many famous generals of the middle Roman Republic were involved with the Greek states as generals and diplomats, but the most critical of them was Titus Quinctius Flamininus. And then off in the wings, especially when he was fighting the Romans in Italy itself and monopolizing their resources, was Hannibal, the Carthaginian general. But Carthage too was destroyed in 146 by the Romans. Their grip on the Mediterranean was secure." - maitani - -

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Vikings: Life and Legend – Review | res gerendae - http://resgerendae.wordpress.com/2014...

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"...I’d still encourage anyone who likes Vikings (and who doesn’t like Vikings?) to go along to this – the cultural contact section in particular really is very interesting, and in general there are some amazing objects you won’t get to see again any time soon without going to Denmark. Plus while you’re there you can check out the excellent new Sutton Hoo and Europe (AD 300–1100) Gallery, which, as well as the spectacular finds from the Sutton Hoo ship burial, contains my favourite object of the whole day: a sword with the Futhark (runic alphabet) inlaid on it in gold. Swords, runes, and swords with runes – what more can you really ask for from a day out at the museum?" - maitani - -

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Oxford Bibliographies http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo...

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To explore the site, librarians are encouraged to sign up for free institution-wide trials, and anyone can search, browse, and view the opening sections of every article currently available. - maitani - -

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Peshawar: Ghosts of a Frontier City http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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"A single feather, milky blue, just fallen on my threshold, is from a Turkestan hill dove flying south from China to Peshawar, I imagine, though it is more likely to have been shed by a buttonquail which is common in these parts." - maitani - -

"Made from melting the musk of each passerby with protolithic time, this threshold is neither a construction or a destruction but a slow composite of both. Along the Silk Road— the moving marketplace across Asia, Africa and Europe— Peshawar has been an important outpost: here, what is stolen by opium, is filled back in by shady trees planted by pilgrims; what is healed and made whole with medicinal tea and Sufi poetry, is pulverized by gun powder; there are rare gems and there are bullets. Sometimes trade and war ride each other’s shoulders. A third companion, the storyteller, is often a few paces ahead or behind." - maitani - -

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Important peculiarities of memory http://mindhacks.com/2014...

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"A slide from what looks like a fascinating talk by memory researcher Robert Bjork is doing the rounds on Twitter." - maitani - -

"The talk has just happened at the Association for Psychological Science 2014 conference and it describes some ‘Important peculiarities of memory’." - maitani - -

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Debussy: Clair de lune https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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A Troublesome Racial Smog http://www.counterpunch.org/2014...

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"Rather, Wade’s lack of understanding of history, the social sciences, population genetics, and the scientific process is troublesome. Not getting the basics right leads to his linking of all manner of lived inequalities to genetic differences among races. His logical errors set the clock back more than a century on public understandings of human genetic variation." - maitani - -

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"Nicholas Wade’s book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History, is what the title suggests: a troubling view of human history. A Troublesome Inheritance is troublesome, but not for the reason he proposes: his courageous telling of hard truths about genetic differences among races." - maitani - -

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On the madness and charm of crushes | Philosophers' Mail - http://www.philosophersmail.com/relatio...

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"You are introduced to someone at a conference. They look nice and you have a brief chat about the theme of the keynote speaker. But already, partly because of the slope of their neck and a lilt in their accent, you have reached an overwhelming conclusion. Or, you sit down in the carriage – and there, diagonally opposite you – is someone you cannot stop looking at for the rest of a journey across miles of darkening countryside. You know nothing concrete about them. You are going only by what their appearance suggests. You note that they have slipped a finger into a book (The Food of the Middle East), that their nails are bitten raw, that they have a thin leather strap around their left wrist and that they are squinting a touch short-sightedly at the map above the door. And that is enough to convince you. Another day, coming out of the supermarket, amidst a throng of people, you catch sight of a face for no longer than eight seconds and yet here too, you feel the same overwhelming certainty – and, subsequently, a bittersweet sadness at their disappearance in the anonymous crowd." - maitani - -

"Crushes: they happen to some people often and to almost everyone sometimes. Airports, trains, streets, conferences – the dynamics of modern life are forever throwing us into fleeting contact with strangers, from amongst whom we pick out a few examples who seem to us not merely interesting, but more powerfully, the solution to our lives. This phenomenon – the crush – goes to the heart of the modern understanding of love. It could seem like a small incident, essentially comic and occasionally farcical. It may look like a minor planet in the constellation of love, but it is in fact the underlying secret central sun around which our notions of the romantic revolve." - maitani - -

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3quarksdaily: Why Noam Chomsky Is One of America's Great Public Intellectuals - http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks...

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"Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned academic best known not only for his pioneering work in linguistics but also for his ongoing work as a public intellectual in which he has addressed a number of important social issues that include and often connect oppressive foreign and domestic policies, a fact well illustrated in his numerous pathbreaking books. Chomsky’s oeuvre includes too many exceptionally important books to single out any one of them from his extraordinary and voluminous archive of work. Moreover, as political interventions, his many books often reflect both a decisive contribution and an engagement with a number of issues that have and continue to dominate a series of specific historical moments over the course of 50 years." - maitani - -

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Home · Art of Making in Antiquity - http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/

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"The Art of Making in Antiquity is an innovative digital project designed for the study of Roman stoneworking. Centred on the photographic archive of Peter Rockwell, this website aims to enhance current understanding of the carving process and to investigate the relationship between the surviving objects, the method and sequence of their production and the people who made them. The resource comprises around 2,000 images, largely Roman monuments with a selection of contextual sources, accompanied by analysis of the working practices underlying their making." - maitani - -

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El Niño: Is 2014 the new 1997? - NASA Science - http://science.nasa.gov/science...

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"May 19, 2014: Every ten days, the NASA/French Space Agency Jason-2 satellite maps all the world's oceans, monitoring changes in sea surface height, a measure of heat in the upper layers of the water. Because our planet is more than 70% ocean, this information is crucial to global forecasts of weather and climate. Lately, Jason-2 has seen something brewing in the Pacific—and it looks a lot like 1997. "A pattern of sea surface heights and temperatures has formed that reminds me of the way the Pacific looked in the spring of 1997," says Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "That turned out to be the precursor of a big El Niño."" - maitani - -

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Why Superstition Works: The Science of Superstition in Sports and Life - http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux...

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"In the South Pacific there is a place so remote that few people have ever heard of it, let alone seen it: the Trobriand Islands. The Trobriands are located off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, and no white man had set foot there until the late 1700s. During World War I, however, the islands were visited by a man who would one day become a legend in the field of anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski. Malinowski was a stork of a man—thin, pale, and balding—often seen wearing a pith helmet and socks up to his knees. He had terrible eyesight, was a hypochondriac, an insomniac, and on top of it all had a strong fear of the tropics—in particular, an abhorrence of the heat and the sultriness; to cope, he gave himself injections of arsenic." - maitani - -

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"Malinowski was, nonetheless, a keen observer of humankind. And as he watched the Trobriand Islanders go about their lives, he noticed something odd. When the islanders went fishing their behavior changed, depending on where they fished. When they fished close to shore—where the waters were calm, the fishing was consistent, and the risk of disaster was low—superstitious behavior among them was nearly nonexistent." - maitani - -

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use - Open Culture | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that “more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use.” Even better, the images can be used at no charge (and without getting permission from the museum). In making this announcement, the Met joined other world-class museums in putting put large troves of digital art online. Witness the 87,000 images from the Getty in L.A., the 125,000 Dutch masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, the 35,000 artistic images from the National Gallery, and the 57,000 works of art on Google Art Project." - maitani - -

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"The Met’s online initiative is dubbed “Open Access for Scholarly Content,” and, while surfing the Met’s digital collections, you’ll know if a particular work is free to download if it bears the “OASC” acronym. In an FAQ, the Met provides these simple instructions." How can I identify the Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) on the Met’s website? Look for this icon Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon below images in the Collections section of the website to identify images that are part of the OASC initiative. How do I download an image designated for Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC)? Look for this icon Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon below the image in the Collections section of this website, then click on the download icon next to it Download Icon to save the image to your desktop or device." - maitani - -

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BBC News - A brief history of plastics, natural and synthetic - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"When you think of plastic, what springs to mind? Cheap toys from China? Packaging? Or maybe a plastic bag? Of course they would, but how about a woolly jumper? Or cornflakes? Or an antique oak wardrobe?" - maitani - -

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"Animal, vegetable, mineral, or synthesis?" - maitani - -

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Should We Work Like Novelists? - Study Hacks - Cal Newport - http://calnewport.com/blog...

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"As I continue to clear out my queue after my end-of-semester blogging hiatus, there’s another article to mention that recently caught my attention. The fantasy author George R. R. Martin, it turns out, writes his books using Word Star, an ancient word processor that runs on DOS (see the screenshot above)." - maitani - -

"Martin is not the only fiction writer with idiosyncratic rituals surrounding his work. Neil Gaiman, for example, famously does much of writing long hand, and Stephen King is very particular about his desk." - maitani - -

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Today I got my roof garden ready for summer.

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The Moons of Jupiter https://medium.com/message...

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A Dialogue On Doublethink - Less Wrong - http://lesswrong.com/lw...

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"Often, when we attempt to accept contradictory statements as correct, it causes cognitive dissonance--that nagging, itchy feeling in your brain that won't leave you alone until you admit that something is wrong. Like when you try to convince yourself that staying up just a little longer playing 2048 won't have adverse effects on the presentation you're giving tomorrow, when you know full well that's exactly what's going to happen." - maitani - -

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Warme Bode – Wikipedia - http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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"Die Große Bode ist der linke, etwa 4,5 km lange Quellbach der Warmen Bode. Ihre Quelle befindet sich am Fuße des Brockens im Südteil des sogenannten Brockenfeldes, an der Landesgrenze zu Sachsen-Anhalt. Gleich in der Nähe liegen die Ursprünge der Kalten Bode, der Ecker und der Oder. Die Große Bode fließt überwiegend nach Süden, am Westhang des Wurmberges Richtung Braunlage. Ihr Bachlauf ist von kleinen Wasserfällen und Fallstufen geprägt, darunter der Obere Bodefall. Vor Braunlage vereinigt sie sich mit der Kleinen Bode zur Warmen Bode." - maitani - -

"Die Warme Bode ist der rechte, 23 km lange Quellfluss der Bode im Hochharz in Niedersachsen und Sachsen-Anhalt. Sie entsteht aus dem Zusammenfluss von Großer und Kleiner Bode." - maitani - -

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Language Arts – Futility Closet - http://www.futilitycloset.com/2014...

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"“Suppose someone to assert: The gostak distims the doshes. You do not know what this means; nor do I. But if we assume that it is English, we know that the doshes are distimmed by the gostak. We know too that one distimmer of doshes is a gostak. If, moreover, the doshes are galloons, we know that some galloons are distimmed by the gostak. And so we may go on, and so we often do go on.”" - maitani - -

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2,000 Years of London's Historical Development, Animated in 7 Minutes - Open Culture | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"Give “The London Evolution Animation” seven minutes, and it will show you the historical development of London over the course of 2,000 years. The animation moves from the Roman port city of Londinium (circa 50 AD) through the Anglo-Saxon, Tudor, Stuart, Early Georgian, Late Georgian, Early Victorian and Late Victorian periods. It then brings you through the Early 20th Century and into Postwar London. Developed by The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, the animation was made with historical data about London’s road networks and buildings. The video recently appeared at the “Almost Lost” Exhibition in London, an exhibition that contemplated how digital maps can help us rethink the past, present and future of great cities." - maitani - -

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The Differences Between American and International Cooking Vocabulary - http://lifehacker.com/the-dif...

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"Here's a handy reference guide for keeping track of the food terms that differ between dialects of English, or exist in some dialects but not others. Whether your British, Australian, Canadian, or American, you might need to do a little research when it comes to cooking and finding the right word for what you want." - maitani - -

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‘Eleanor Marx: A Life’, by Rachel Holmes - FT.com - http://www.ft.com/cms...

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"Eleanor Marx joked that she had inherited her father’s nose but not his genius and, if she anticipated that it was her fate to be overshadowed by the author of Das Kapital, then she could only be proved correct. Yet contemporaries who knew her work as an activist, writer and translator would have protested nonetheless at the injustice. Now, in Rachel Holmes’ fine biography, we have all the evidence we need to revise this modest self-assessment." - maitani - -

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Our Favourite Map - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"Look closely, and you can just about discern the shape. Can you guess what it is yet? It's a medieval view of Britain, one of four surviving maps by Matthew Paris, historian and cartographer at St Albans Abbey. Scotland is shown at the top, joined to the rest of the British mainland by a bridge at Stirling ('Estriuelin pons'). Moving southwards are depicted two walls, one dividing the Scots from the Picts (the Antonine Wall) and the other the Scots from the English (Hadrian's Wall). Along the spine of the map is a series of English towns, including Newcastle ('Nouum castrum'), Durham ('Dunelmum'), Pontefract ('Pons fractus') and Newark ('Neuwerc'), culminating with London, Rochester, Canterbury and Dover ('Douera'), a castle located in the centre of the South coast of England. Wales ('WALLIA') is sited in just about the right place, with a sequence of jagged lines representing Mount Snowdon ('Snaudun'); diagonally opposite is Norfolk and Suffolk, and the towns of Norwich (a metropolis, no less), Lynn and Yarmouth." - maitani - -

"This particular map is now bound separately (London, British Library, MS Cotton Claudius D VI, f. 12v), but it once belonged to a manuscript of the Abbreviatio Chronicorum of Matthew Paris, dating from the 1250s. There are less complete maps of Britain by Matthew Paris in two other St Albans' manuscripts held at the British Library, Royal MS 14 C VII and Cotton MS Julius D VII, and in another at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (MS 16). You can read more about these maps in Suzanne Lewis, The Art of Matthew Paris in the Chronica Majora (Aldershot, 1987), pp. 364-72; but meanwhile here are some more details of the version in Cotton Claudius D VI. It's worth bearing in mind that Matthew Paris did not have satnav, GPS or an A-Z, and that he had never visited the vast majority of the places recorded on his maps." - maitani - -

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