Heather; aspiring anthropologist, archaeologist, lover of physics and astronomy, scientist in training.
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This excellent paper was the first given in the session on Early Medieval Europe. It looked at various archaeological excavations in Iceland and Denmark and the political role feasting played in pre-Christian Viking societies.
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/05/18/feasting-with-early-medieval-chiefs-locating-political-action-through-environmental-archaeology/
I want to DO THIS STUFF
Attention stargazers - Mercury, Jupiter and Venus appear very close together in the sky, May 24-26, 2013.
Three planets are coming together in the evening sky at the moment, putting on a celestial show that won’t be seen again for more than a decade.
“The view should be best about 30 to 45 minutes after sunset,” said Alan MacRobert, a senior editor at Sky & Telescope magazine. Find out how to spot Jupiter, Venus and Mercury.
You guys are so patient and wonderful I love you so much
Been out in the field and have so many things I wish I could share with you (but on account of the high profile nature of the site, the director has asked us not to.) Still gonna find some pictures to share with you all from my last week of amazing fun.
I’ll be fixing my queue back up later this afternoon, so please stay tuned! <3
If Hollywood’s right, the apocalypse will be brutal. Aliens, nuclear war, zombies, plague, enslavement by supersmart robots — none of them are good endings. Some archaeologists, however, believe an apocalypse has already come and gone. About 75,000 years ago, they say, a monster volcanic eruption…
I look up — many people feel small because they’re small and the Universe is big — but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars. There’s a level of connectivity.
That’s really what you want in life, you want to feel connected, you want to feel relevant, you want to feel like a participant in the goings on of activities and events around you.
That’s precisely what we are, just by being alive…
- Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson [ x ]
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Tom and Chris in the final stages of readying the suits and airlock for their spacewalk. A full day’s prep.
Yesterday (May 11), these two astronauts carried out a hastily arranged spacewalk today to replace what may have been the source of an ammonia leak in the cooling system of the International Space Station. More details here.
My Inspirational Female Archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thomson (1889 - 1985) was an early female archaeologist who conducted work in Egypt and Zimbabwe, the latter of which is what she is probably most famous for. After conducting her own fieldwork at the Great Zimbabwe ruins, she denounced the popular “Foreign origins” theories that they were built by a mysterious white race, or early Phoenicians, instead stating that they were of indigenous origin. After presenting her findings in 1929 to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Johannesburg, South Africa, she was shunned by a large majority of pro-Foreign-origins supporters. Nevertheless, she stuck to her guns, and had the support of many other eminent archaeologists, including Sir Mortimer Wheeler and Louis Leakey. She was taught under Flinders Petrie, and was herself a mentor and friend to another famous female archaeologist, Mary Leakey.
Her knowledge and courage in what was then a male-dominated, and often sexist discipline, are really inspiring to me. Getrude, you rocked!
NGC 7000 & The Cygnus Wall
Credit: Matthew T. Russell
This song is such a party starter.
“INERTIA
IS
A
PROPERTY
OF
MATTER.”
PARTY HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NERD RAVE TIME
OH YEAH
YES
SCIENCE RULES
IM SORRY EVERYONE, I HAD TO
LITERALLY THE BEST THING THOUGH
BILL BILL BILL BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUYYY
*Fist pumping* BILL BILL BILL BILL BILL
IMMEDIATELY FREAKED THE FUCK OUT.
I USED TO SING THIS ALL THE TIME HELL YES!!! XD
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