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JRR Tolkien translation of Beowulf to be published after 90-year wait | Books | theguardian.com - http://www.theguardian.com/books...

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"Telling of how the Geatish prince Beowulf comes to the aid of Danish king Hroðgar, slaying the monster Grendel and his mother before - spoiler alert - being mortally wounded by a dragon years later, Beowulf is is the longest epic poem in Old English, and is dated to the early 11th century. It survives in a single manuscript, housed at the British Library, and has inspired countless retellings of the myth - recently and famously by the late Seamus Heaney, whose translation won him the Whitbread book of year award in 1999." - maitani - -

"Hwæt! Almost 90 years after JRR Tolkien translated the 11th-century poem Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings author's version of the epic story is to be published for the first time in an edition which his son Christopher Tolkien says sees his father "enter[ing] into the imagined past" of the heroes." - maitani - -

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International Dunhuang Project: IDP 20 Event: Public Lectures and Reception - http://idpuk.blogspot.de/2014...

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"Over a century of archaeology on the eastern Silk Road has resulted in thousands of textile finds, preserved by the dry desert air. In their variety — of material, dyes, designs and weaves — they demonstrate the richness of cultural and technical exchanges among the peoples of the Silk Road." - maitani - -

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Aegeus - Society for Aegean Prehistory: Shifting boundaries: The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Aegean under a new light - http://www.aegeussociety.org/en...

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"The aim of the present paper is to propose some synchronizations, mainly taking into consideration the typology of pottery. The period of our focus is the early Late Bronze Age and the data presented come from the Mainland, Crete and the Cyclades. Ceramic data from different places are combined, offering interesting correlations in terms of relative chronology. Emphasis is given to the dating systems proposed by some scholars, like those of Warren, Hankey and Dietz, since they have greatly influenced the literature and are still being used widely. We are particularly interested in the synchronization of the Mainland with Crete on a ceramic basis and especially the period of the late Middle and early Late Bronze Age." - maitani - -

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See The Guidonian Hand, the Medieval System for Reading Music, Get Brought Back to Life - Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"In the 11th century, a monk known as Guido of Arezzo, began to use the “Guidonian hand” as way to teach medieval music singers his hexachord, or six-note scales. Arezzo, who had also devised the modern musical notation system, had noticed that singers struggled to remember the various Gregorian chants that the monastic orders performed in the monasteries. To help their memorization, Guido decided to take the first syllable in each line of the well known hymn Ut Queant Laxis, and created a hexachord, or six note scale, that singers familiar with the hymn already knew: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la. The hand, shown above, was a map of the musical notes in this hexachord system, with each note associated with a particular joint. In all, the Guidonian hand ranges almost three octaves. Although it had fallen out of use for the past few centuries, the Guidonian hand seems to be making a comeback. Here’s a video of the method in action, forwarded our way by Anton Hecht, an Open Culture reader:" - maitani - -

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I can't access my feedly reading list any more.

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Now I consider using another feed reader. - maitani - -

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Thank you, Eivind. I just realized that feedly will work perfectly as soon as I have replaced my old PC which is still running on XP. - maitani - -

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Lots of twitter posts are coming in from people whose names I haven't seen in years.

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Das erste Ei ist da! http://storchennest-hoechstadt.de/live-ca...

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We now have two storks and an egg! - maitani - -

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Amazing drone footage of an erupting volcano - kottke - http://kottke.org/14...

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"How this quad-copter shooting HD footage of a volcano erupting in Vanuatu manages to escape the flying chunks of lava is beyond me." - maitani - -

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Poemas del río Wang: Dissolving: Hunters in the snow - http://riowang.blogspot.de/2014...

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow, 1565 - Piergiorgio Branzi: Alekseevskoe (Moscow), 1962 - maitani - -

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Catholic Magic | Genealogy of Religion - http://genealogyreligion.net/catholi...

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"According to early evolutionary anthropologists, magical thinking is supposed to be the province of “primitive” or traditional societies. As some of these societies progressively made their way toward modernity and became “civilized,” magical thinking was supposed to have disappeared. If it did not entirely disappear, then it was supposed to have given way to right proper religion. This is the progressive myth, found in both religious and secular forms, that prevails among civilized folk. The faithful among those folk tell themselves that religion has nothing to do with magic. The positivists among those folk tell themselves that science has replaced, or is inexorably displacing, residuals of magical thinking." - maitani - -

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▶ Klaus Nomi's 1978 debut at New Wave Vaudeville, Irving Plaza (NYC) - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Tolkien’s Influence on Fantasy | Book View Cafe Blog - http://bookviewcafe.com/blog...

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"Here’s Tolkien himself, in a letter to Milton Waldman, probably written about 1951 but never sent: “Do not laugh! But once upon a time (my crest has long since fallen) I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story . . .The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.” * He finishes with “Absurd.”" - maitani - -

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The Tale of Two Ukraines, the “Missing” Five Million Ukrainians, and Surzhyk | GeoCurrents - http://www.geocurrents.info/cultura...

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"The correlation between ethnicity, (native) language, religion, and voting patterns—and the consequent split into “two Ukraines”—was established over a decade ago; GeoCurrents has discussed those issues here and here. (In fact, economic factors, such as the region’s contribution to GNP, salary levels, and industrial production, can be added to the mix, as they too correlate with the eastern/western Ukraine divide.) However, the easy slippage between ethnic and linguistic terms is problematic in the case of Ukraine because the ethnic and linguistic categories are not coextensive, although they do overlap to a significant degree. Moreover, speaking of the Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking populations are forming as two different language communities is somewhat misleading, particularly for the American audience not used to the high degree of bilingualism found in Ukraine." - maitani - -

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NeuroLogica Blog » Can Thinking Change Reality - http://theness.com/neurolo...

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"But Burke was not arguing that the nature of the universe actually changed, just our conception of it. Thinking alone cannot directly change external reality. That is magical thinking." - maitani - -

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"I love the documentary series, The Day the Universe Changed, by James Burke. It’s a follow up to his equally good, Connections (I know, they have their criticisms, but overall they are very good). The former title is a metaphor – when our collective model of reality changes, for us the universe does change. When we believed the earth was motionless at the center of the universe, that was our reality." - maitani - -

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A Big List of 875 Free Courses From Top Universities: 27,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures - Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"In recent months, we’ve enhanced what’s now a list of 875 Free Online Courses from top universities. Here’s the lowdown: Our big list of free courses lets you download audio & video lectures from schools like Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and UC Berkeley. Generally, the courses can be accessed via YouTube, iTunes or university web sites. Right now you’ll find 100 free philosophy courses, 67 free history courses, 90 free computer science courses, and 47 free Physics courses on the list, and that’s just beginning to scratch the surface. Indeed you can also find sections covering Astronomy, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Literature, Math, Political Science, Psychology and Religion. If you want to ballpark it, there are about 27,000 hours of free audio & video lectures here. And if you spend 8 hours per day enriching yourself, you can keep yourself busy for the next 10 years. At no cost." - maitani - -

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Urartu Biainili - http://www.biainili-urartu.de/#

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"The intention is to inform about recent developments in the area. The contributions of this website are often written in German, sometimes in English. But it is planned to publish them more and more in English for better understanding and distribution." - maitani - -

"This website is devoted to archaeological and historical research in the area of the ancient near-eastern kingdom of "Biainili", better known by the Assyrian name "Urartu". This is the area of Eastern Turkey, North-Western Iran, Armenia and parts of Azerbaijan." - maitani - -

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Your face says it all? Not so fast -- ScienceDaily - http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...

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"New research calls into question the very foundations of emotion science. It's a concept that had become universally understood: humans experience six basic emotions -- happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, and surprise -- and use the same set of facial movements to express them. What's more, we can recognize emotions on another's face, whether that person hails from Boston or Borneo. The only problem with this concept, according to new research, is that it isn't true at all. Researchers have found that even basic human emotions are in fact not universally perceived." - maitani - -

"Here's how the falsity came to be understood as fact. In the 1970s, a young psychologist named Paul Ekman traveled to Papua New Guinea to test whether emotions were universally experienced and expressed as he suspected. To test his hypothesis, he looked at whether people recognized the same emotions in facial expressions around the world. Was a scowling face always classified as angry regardless of the observer's cultural background? A pouting face as sad?" - maitani - -

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The weight of mountains - http://kottke.org/14...

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"A beautifully shot short film about mountains, how they form, how they age, and how they die." - maitani - -

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“Mustard After Dinner”, Or Are Spain’s Mealtimes Climate-Related? | GeoCurrents - http://www.geocurrents.info/cultura...

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in milan they are deluded to be nordic celtics (ok kidding, I was aware of our differences between regions but I didn't think it involved also dinner time .. Ubi but prime TV time is 2030, why?) - maitani - -

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What are the schedules like in Spain for young kids? Do school kids go to school later than the rest of the world, and also have 10pm dinners? Or is that just adults? - maitani - -

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Bavarian Palace Department | Würzburg Residenz | Tour | Treppenhaus - http://www.residenz-wuerzburg.de/englisc...

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"Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, summoned specially from Venice for the purpose, decorated the vault in 1752/53 with the largest ceiling fresco ever painted. With great artistic sensitivity he depicted the exotic, magical worlds of the continents of America, Asia and Africa, personified by regal female figures. The highlight of the composition is the allegory of Europe with the Würzburg court as a centre of the arts. The painting, which measures around 600 square metres, is fused into a whole with the sky inhabited by the ancient gods in the centre." - maitani - -

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First Americans Lived on Bering Land Bridge for Thousands of Years - Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"Genetic evidence supports a theory that ancestors of Native Americans lived for 15,000 years on the Bering Land Bridge between Asia and North America until the last ice age ended" - maitani - -

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If I could live for thousands of years, I might be willing to live on a land bridge. As long as I had access to FriendFeed of course. - maitani - -

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Shared Shelf Commons - http://www.sscommons.org/openlib...

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"Shared Shelf Commons is a free, open-access library of images. Search and browse collections with tools to zoom, print, export, and share images. Institutions that subscribe to Shared Shelf, a Web-based service for cataloging and managing digital collections, can share their images with the world via the Commons." - maitani - -

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Catalogue of ancient ports antiques - http://www.ancientportsantiques.com/

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"This web site presents work done to collect, identify and locate ancient harbours and ports. It is based on a study of existing documentation. The result is a list of around 3000 ancient ports based on the writings of 66 ancient authors and a few modern authors, incl. the Barrington Atlas. A few « potential ancient ports » from a nautical point of view, have been added, based on nautical guides/pilots used by modern sailors. If you are looking for the location of a specific port, use the search engine (top right of this page) that will lead you to the page where this port is mentioned. If you are uncertain about the spelling, you may enter just the part of the name you are certain of into the search engine." - maitani - -

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200-Year Drought Doomed Indus Valley Civilization - Scientific American - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article...

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"The decline of Bronze-Age civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Mesopotamia has been attributed to a long-term drought that began around 2000 BC. Now paleoclimatologists propose that a similar fate was followed by the enigmatic Indus Valley Civilization, at about the same time. Based on isotope data from the sediment of an ancient lake, the researchers suggest that the monsoon cycle, which is vital to the livelihood of all of South Asia, essentially stopped there for as long as two centuries." - maitani - -

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Avant-Garde in a Different Key: Karl Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind – Critical Inquiry - http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/Avant_G...

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" In This Great Time which I still remember when it was so small; which will become small again if there is enough time, and which, because in the realm of organic growth no such transformation is possible, we prefer to address as a fat time and also a hard time; in this time where the very thing happens that one could not imagine, and in which that must happen which one can no longer imagine, and could one imagine it, it wouldn’t happen—; in this serious time which died laughing at the possibility that it could become serious: which, surprised by its tragedy, longed for distraction, and which, catching itself engaging in some new action, searches for words; in this loud time, which threatens to disclose the horrible symphony of deeds, to bring forward reports—reports that lead to action: in this time you should not expect a single word from me. . . . Let him who has something to say come forward and be silent.[9]" - maitani - -

"My business is to pin down the Age between quotation marks. What has been proposed here is nothing less than a drainage system for the huge swamps of phraseology.[1]" - maitani - -

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Françoise Sagan: 'She did what she wanted' | Books | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/books...

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"She took the title from a poem by Paul Éluard and her nom de plume from Proust. Years later, Brigid Brophy would declare that she wrote with "a pen saturated in French literature". But 60 years ago , the publication of a first novel by an 18-year-old author had France's literary establishment in uproar. As a slender volume called Bonjour Tristesse flew off the shelves, Françoise Sagan became a scandalous success, the echoes of which would prove impossible to silence." - maitani - -

"This short novel of barely 30,000 words is a story told by Cécile, a 17-year-old girl holidaying on the Côte d'Azur with her widowed father, a roué who has brought along his young girlfriend. The daughter is exploring her own first sentimental adventure, a swiftly consummated romance with a handsome law student, when the unexpected arrival of an older woman, a friend of her late mother, disrupts the self-indulgent haze of high summer. First the newcomer takes charge, ordering Cécile to terminate her romance in order to stay indoors and do her homework. Then she and the father fall in love. To prevent their marriage the daughter devises an ill-fated plot in which the pretence of an affair between her boyfriend and the father's dumped girlfriend is intended to provoke jealousy and restore the status quo ante." - maitani - -

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