Rarely-seen treasures from Anglo-Saxon England, Ancient Egypt and the Mediterranean are being opened up to public view following the refurbishment of the small museum of Girton College Cambridge.
The Lawrence Room at Girton contains a range of unique pieces including Anglo-Saxon treasures recovered on the college site in 1881 and, perhaps most importantly, Hermione Grammatike, a named portrait mummy of a young female classics teacher from the Fayum city of Roman-era Egypt.
Excavated by William Flinders Petrie during the winter season of 1910/1911 in the Roman cemetery at Hawara, on the eastern edge of the Fayum, Hermione has become something of a Girton icon.
Thanks to the Resource Shelf blog for the information that the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is now available online at the Turning the Pages Online website, from where you can load the virtual papyrus, or you can link to it directly by clicking here (it takes quite a while for the page to load). This is a terrific way of looking at the original papyrus. The Eye of Ra that shows under the papyrus allows you to zoom in on any part of it.
The Edwin Smith Papyrus, the world’s oldest surviving surgical text, was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE, but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. The papyrus is a textbook on trauma surgery, and describes anatomical observations and the examination, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of numerous injuries in exquisite detail.
American archaeologist Edwin Smith discovered the papyrus in Egypt in the 1860s, and his daughter donated the papyrus to the New-York Historical Society after his death. It eventually made its way to the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine, and it was recently translated for the first time in over 50 years into English by James P. Allen of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
If you speak Spanish this is a really nice introduction to the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology written by a recent visitor. It includes a history of the museum and gives a blow by blow account of the visit t the museum. It is accompanied by around ten good photos and a plan of the museum.
MOST people associate museums with art and artifacts, not research libraries. But many of New York’s most prestigious museums have extensive collections of books and papers. Four of them — the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Frick Collection — have combined forces to share resources, save money and make their holdings more accessible to the public.
Together these institutions make up the New York Art Resources Consortium, an integrated library system formed in 2007 that is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Its Web site, nyarc.org, just went on line in February. Last year, three of the museums united their collections in one catalog, called Arcade (the Met has kept its catalog separate).
“This allows us to do some things collaboratively that we weren’t able to do individually,” said Milan R. Hughston, the chief of library and museum archives at MoMA. “Together we aggregate close to a million books, articles, periodicals and special collections that document art history.”
The database, at arcade.nyarc.org, is a trove of more than 800,000 records from ancient Egypt to contemporary art that includes exhibition and auction sale catalogs, monographs, periodicals, rare books, photographs and archival materials.
Investigating the likelihood of a reservoir offset in the radiocarbon record for ancient Egypt M.W. Dee, F. Brock, S.A. Harris, C. Bronk Ramsey, A.J. Shortland, T.F.G. Higham, J.M. Rowland
Abstract Some radiocarbon dates for ancient Egypt have been significantly offset from the established historical chronology (see Bonani et al., 2001). In this paper, short-lived plant species collected in Egypt between 1700 and 1900 AD were used to investigate the possibility that the radiocarbon record had been influenced by reservoir effects. AMS radiocarbon measurements were made on 66 known-age samples, resulting in an average offset from expected values of 19 years. The implications of this minor discrepancy on the likelihood of a reservoir process are discussed, and the agreement of the data with recent models of radiocarbon seasonality is also considered.
– Nu suport soferii-piloti (sau tonto-drivers,cum imi place sa le spun)
De obicei acesti bizoni la volan au una din urmatoarele caracteristici:
+ are o Dacie si de fiecare data cand vede o masina straina simte nevoia sa o depaseasca,sa faca curse … mai pe scurt vrea sa demonstreze (in frustrarea lui) ca degeaba are respectivul masina straina.El stie sa conduca mai bine ! E dezamagit pe viata, pe el ,ca nu isi poate permite ceva mai bun si atunci singura lui multumire este sa se bage in depasiri (ca idiotul), numai sa depaseasca si el o masina mai buna. Ca doar el e sofer…nu ca prostii aia care au masini scumpe si nu stiu unde e schimbatorul de viteze !
+ are masina straina si se crede pilot de formula 1 ! Aici gasim mai multe aspecte:
a) Ar vrea sa spuna ca ii plac “sporturile extreme” asa ca se baga in depasiri la limita (ca un idiot) pentru adrenalina.
b) Are cativa prieteni in masina si vrea sa le demonstreze cat de sofer este el !
c) Un prieten cu masina este in fata lui => trebuie sa-l depaseasca !!! Doar nu o sa lase un fraier in fata lui ! El este sofer adevarat. Nu ca papagalul ala.
d) Cea mai frecventa. Prietena lui este langa el => vrea sa-i demonstreze cat de sofer este el, ca traieste viata la maxim , ca este un “baiat rau” … De fapt demonstreaza ca este un frustrat, incapabil de a demonstra o calitate demna de bagat in seama. Un clovn la volan, cu o nevoie de a-si demonstra inferioritatea. Diferenta intre “bad boy” si “bad bou” este foarte mica !
– Nu suport pietonii “kamikaze”
Mai pe scurt genul ala de trecatori care cand confunda trecerea de pietoni cu un bidon de apa intr-un desert ! Am patit de multe ori ca,din senin, sa ma trezesc cu cativa kamikaze pe trecere si pe cuvantul meu daca mi-am dat seama vreodata de unde apar.
Parca ar fi niste fantome! Mergi normal si dintr-o data te trezesti cu victimele in fata. Nici macar nu au bunul simt sa se asigure. Se arunca pe trecerea de pietoni de parca toti soferii merg cu bicicleta nu cu masina.
– Nu suport femeile care viseaza la “altul” desi au prieten ! (sau flirteaza/se baga in seama cu el …chestii evidente)
Am patit-o de cateva ori. Nu cu prietena mea.Cu prietenele colegilor mei. Intr-o anumita perioada aproape ca am ramas fara prieteni din cauza prietenelor lor. Si cu cat incercam sa tin distanta fata de ele, cu atat mai multa atentie primeam.
Cum suna asta : Ea are prieten dar de fapt vorbeste/se intalneste cu altul,viseaza la el. Cum sa fiu cu prietena altuia cand ma gandesc ca si eu as putea sa patesc aceasi chestie .Daca ii face asta prietenului ei ,ce ar opri-o sa imi faca si mie aceasi chestie ?
Cam cata incredere poti sa ai in asa ceva ?
Deci Pisi,daca ai prieten, vezi-ti de el ! Radem,glumim,vorbim, dar atat !
Daca nu esti multumita de prietenul tau, trimite-l la plimbare !
Google is known for its ambitious plans, and more often than not they succeed. Still, few might have actually believed when the project started out that there will be Android-powered cars by 2010. But it’s happening, the first car to feature Android will hit the streets, literally, next month in China. The Roewe 350 is expected to debut at the Beijing Auto Show next month with the notable feature of being the first car to ship with a GPS navigation/DVD system powered by Google’s operating sys… (read more)
Today, people are willing to do anything to achieve weight loss. There are so many new diets added on to the market everyday. The result is that in their quest to become thin, many people are starting to take such drastic measures that it ends up harming their health. The weight loss effects of such fad diets or products, which claim to be “miracle diets”, have short term results and have many side effects. This makes it extremely important that we choose ways of weight loss methods which are healthy. The Vegetarian lifestyle is well known to help people lose weight.
If a person is overweight, and has a bad diet then this is not their only problem. There are many health conditions that come along as a consequence of a bad diet;
Diabetes,
High blood pressure
High Cholesterol
Reduced energy level
Poor skin
Heart disorders
But with the vegetarian diet you can have these benefits;
Weight loss
More Energy
Better Mental Concentration
A Relaxed Mind
Radiant Skin
Helps to detoxify the body
The vegetarian diet includes many low fat, low sugar and low calorie recipes which are used by many people in the world for various reasons. Depending on what kind of vegetarian they are people are trying to create different low fat vegetarian recipes. People are turning towards these low fat vegetarian recipes because they are nutritional, help reduce cholesterol and also help people mentally concentrate better.
A vegetarian diet has benefits of its own. With this diet you can eat as much healthy food as you want to but the calorie intake would be real low as compared to a meat diet with the same fraction. In no time your energy level will increase and you will start losing weight over a long period of time.
The Vegetarian Lifestyle is a healthy option to lose weight by becoming a semi vegetarian.
So what is a Semi Vegetarian?
A semi vegetarian is someone who reduces the amount of meat they eat but , but can continue to consume some amount of white meat like fish, chicken, lobsters and other sea foods but include more healthier food options like fruit and vegetables into their daily diet. The number one question that most people ask are “why and how to start a vegetarian diet”? First of all, it provides more nutrients, vitamins, minerals to your body and increasing our daily recommended nutrition.
As you can see, going vegetarian can really help you to lose weight, become more energetic and look radiant. Below are simple steps to begin a semi vegetarian diet-:
1. Remove junk foods from your refrigerator. When you don’t see these junk foods, your desire to eat them gets diminished and gradually you can adapt to the vegetarian diet.
2. You should seek help from your physician before you make any decisions to change your diet or lifestyle. He or she will advise you which vegetarian food items are best for your health and how to take them to lose weight effectively.
3. You should try new and tasty vegetarian dishes from all parts of the world. You can take help from cook books, search websites in the internet to make some finger licking dishes for you and your family. This way you won’t miss those non-vegetarian junk food items.
4. Start to include meat alternatives into your diet like tofu, seitan, TVP textured vegetable protein and quorn which are very tasty and low in calorie as no fat is included.
5. Start regular exercise routine in combination with a healthy diet.
Creating healthy eating habits are absolutely necessary for a healthy weight loss. A properly planned diet, along with exercises is the best possible weight loss program. Going vegetarian is the first step in developing these healthy habits. .
They are so many fast food products which have a large amount of animal fat, which increases your calorie intake causing people to gain weight and can cause many health conditions in the future. Invest inyour health today, take a step in the right direction and start the vegetarian lifestyle with simple steps.
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What type of vitamin supplements do vegetarians need to take?
I’m a vegetarian now for almost two years, and I take a daily multivitamin, but I’m not sure if that is enough. I’m a teenager, I don’t know if that will affect your answer or not.
they mostly take protein because they dont eat meat. And most of your proteins come from meat like chicken, fish, and stuff.
and also wat the hell with those 2 answers?
Vitamin B12 Deficiency the Shot in the Arm You May Need for Diet Therapy
Vegetarians Vitamin is a post from the Vegetarian Vitamins Guide blog where you can find suggestions and advice from vegetarians and vegans on vegetarian diets, supplements, vitamins and overall nutrition.
Google needs the web to be as fast, as safe and as clean as possible, not out of some altruistic desire the ‘make the world a better place’, as it would have you believe, though that does play a part, but because a better web means more money for the company. It has released plenty of projects to make the web faster, but now it’s looking at making it safer with a brand-new security tool dubbed skipfish.
“Today, we are happy to announce the availability of skipfish – our free, ope… (read more)
Ever since Microsoft’s ballot screen in Windows started offering users the possibility to choose the web browser they want to set as default on their computers, Opera has registered an increase in the number of downloads all over Europe. One of the most impressive growth in downloads has been noticed in the UK, where the Norwegian company… (read more)
In response to Ray Grigg’s article “A Message for Climate Skeptics“, I felt some feedback from a self described climate skeptic might be in order.
Ray, you correctly point out that the IPCC is finally admitting mistakes in their 2007 report. But for you to state that the Himalaya glaciers could melt a mere 100 years later than predicted is not very scientific since there is no basis for any rate of melting that can be considered reliable at this point. That’s why the IPCC has set up an independent inquiry to find out how such poor science made it into the peer reviewed literature. There were other mistakes. Articles from Green Peace and the World Wildlife Fund also were referenced in the report, perhaps this could explain the advocacy that the IPCC became known for? These are not impartial organizations and do not produce credible scientific papers. Mistakes as obvious as how much of the Netherlands is below sea level also found their way into the “peer reviewed” report. The report stated 55 per cent is below sea level, in fact the correct number is less than half at 25 per cent.
You incorrectly claim that skeptics say that there has been no climate change. That is not a credible position even among skeptics. What we object to is the certainty that humans are somehow in control of changes in the climate and that any climate change that we cause will be negative or rapid. Changes we are seeing are not rapid and if record snowfall across the northern hemisphere for this winter doesn’t count as climate, then neither should record heat waves in 2005 or an unusually low arctic sea ice extent in 2007. Climate changes. It always changes. Nothing will change that.
LONDON — Apocalyptic visions and the muscular language of religious fervor are invading the climate arena, replacing issues of fact with those of faith and bringing high emotion into science — an area where it should have no place — politicians and religious leaders complain.
People who say human-induced climate change is a fact that demands urgent action are described as “believers” or “climate evangelists,” while those who reject the concept are “deniers,” “skeptics” or “atheists.” Those in the middle who say they are unconvinced either way are “agnostics.”
“The use of this language has become increasingly an issue,” said Colin Challen, chairman of the United Kingdom’s All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, a committee of U.K. lawmakers studying the global climate phenomenon.
“Some people would like that to happen, because in some eyes proving that climate change is man-made becomes as difficult as proving the existence of God,” he told E&E.
Doctrine of Certainty, The basic not-to-be-questioned assertions
Aesop (620-564 BC) the Greek writer famous for his fables told of the boy who falsely cried wolf. Environmentalists have falsely cried wolf and effectively undermine environmentalism the need to live within the confines of a finite planet. They misled, exaggerated and made a multitude of false predictions to the detriment of the environment and people’s willingness to be aware and concerned. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a major starting point that blamed DDT for many things including thinner eggshells none of which proved correct
Indeed, as Paul Driessen identified in Eco-imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, banning DDT led to millions of unnecessary deaths from malaria that exceed deaths from AIDS in Africa.
A myriad of false stories made headlines over the last 40 years. All are conditional that is they’re prefaced by words like, ‘could’ and ‘maybe’, but the public generally remembers the terse and unconditional headlines. Ultimately almost all the stories were subsequently proved incorrect, but that never makes the headlines. Remember such stories as sheep and rabbits going blind in Chile because of thinning ozone.
The Governor held a press conference to announce the introduction and his sponsorship of SB 1395, legislation that will make it easier for Californians to affirm their preferred organ donor status.
Although USA TODAY’s article “Is the global warming movement cooling?” recognizes some of the growing evidence against man-made global warming, it overlooks a central point (Cover story, News, March 11).
Every proposal to regulate and reduce greenhouse emissions would destroy jobs and weaken national wealth formation. Before “Climategate,” we were told that it was necessary to make these sacrifices to avert even greater loss.
Now, not only have the methods and objectivity of the global-warming careerists been seriously questioned, but also the predictions used to justify the expense of climate mitigation actions have largely fallen by the wayside. The original proponents of the claims now admit that there is no scientific evidence that the Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035. But this is not a minor, isolated error. What should also be noted is that there is no scientific proof that the seas are rising due to warming, or that African agriculture will collapse by 2020, or that the Amazon rainforest will soon be destroyed — all predictions that have formed the central narrative for climate action. Furthermore, professor Phil Jones, the man at the heart of the scandal, admits that there has been no statistically significant warming for 15 years.
Any official or organization arguing that the science underlying the claims of man-made global warming should not be seriously and comprehensively reassessed before imposing regulations with such enormous consequences for the standard of living of every American is acting irresponsibly.
We’ve seen all sorts of ridiculous claims by performance rights collection societies trying to demand performance rights for things that clearly were not intended as “performances.” There was the woman stocking shelves in a store who was singing without paying. There was the owner of a horse stable who played music to her horses. There was the attempt to say that your mobile phone ringing with a ringtone was a public performance. Basically, they’re willing to claim just about any music playing is a public performance that requires yet another fee.
Niall.e points us to a legal issue in Europe, where the Irish High Court has asked the European Court of Justice to weigh in on a claim by the Irish collection society Phonographic Performance Ireland Ltd (PPI), which is claiming that music played in hotel rooms for guests requires a performance fee. Yes, you read that right. PPI is claiming that since the hotel provides radios and televisions in the guest rooms, they need to pay a performance right fee on the usage of those devices.
PPI can’t honestly believe this is a public performance that deserves a performance right. This is just a blatant money grab to try to force someone else to pay up. What’s next? Auto dealers will have to pay a performance fee for having radios installed in cars?
About a year and a half ago, in September of 2008, news broke out that Sony and God of War game designer, David Jaffe, had been sued for copyright infringement. In what can only be called timely
In the last few years, there’s been a push by some companies to bring back the immensely troubling “hot news doctrine,” that appears to violate everything we know about the First Amendment and copyright law. Basically, the “hot news doctrine” says that if someone reports on a story, others are not allowed to report on their reporting for some period of time — on the theory that it somehow undermines the incentive to do that original reporting. Last year, we wrote about the very troubling implications of allowing the hot news concept to stand. Beyond the free speech implications, it also has the troubling quality of effectively creating a copyright on facts — which are quite clearly not covered by copyright. On top of that, it’s not necessary in the slightest. As anyone who is actually in the online news business knows, getting a scoop gets you traffic — even if others report the same thing minutes later. Being first gets you the attention. You don’t need to artificially block others from reporting the news.
Unfortunately, with various publications struggling, some have picked up on the hot news doctrine as a way to somehow block competition. Tragically, it looks like a court has now adopted the hot news doctrine in one case. Paul Alan Levy alerts us to the news that a judge issuing an injunction against TheFlyOnTheWall.com, a website that would publish summaries of Wall Street research. The Wall Street firms said this undermined their business model — and the court agreed. It passed an injunction saying that TheFlyOnTheWall had to hold off publishing any news about any Wall Street research report until either 10am (if the report is released early in the morning) or for two hours after it’s released if it comes out during the day.
These totally arbitrary restrictions are highly troubling from a free speech standpoint and seem effectively random. This seems like yet another case of a company being upset by interference with its business model, which should be a reason to change the business model — not run to the courts.
But what’s most troubling of all is that now all the publishers who have been salivating over the hot news doctrine have a legal ruling to point to. Can you imagine how the world would work if you couldn’t blog about or mention a particular piece of news for a few hours because the Associated Press got to it first? It’s hard to see how this could possibly stand up to a First Amendment analysis, and it’s quite troubling that the judge found the way she did.
The entertainment industry always likes to take the digital world and compare it to the physical world as if the two were the same — often making claims like unauthorized downloading is “just like stealing a CD from a store.” However, they don’t seem to like it when you do that back to them to prove all the inconsistencies in their arguments. Lee Griffin wrote up a good blog post about the Digital Economy Bill in the UK, wondering how people would feel if the same rules were applied offline:
Would you appreciate being put under house arrest not because of any court determined guilt, but because of someone making accusations of copyright infringement against you for something that may or may not have occurred in your property at the time? Is it even remotely justified to put you under house arrest, to stop you from going to the library, to work, or to socialise with your friends because of those accusations alone?
Or how about point 4…how would you feel if the police were stopping you from accessing your local community centre because a single individual or organisation had threatened the local council in such a way that it is too much for the council to risk the financial cost of allowng it to continue functioning for the community? Imagine arriving at your local pub only to find it inaccessible to you, even though anyone that is visiting from another town can use it freely; not for anything that you or your town have necessarily done, but because of the implications made by an individual in a completely unscrutinised manner?
Finally, point 5 would be very interesting. Could you imagine the police coming and turfing you out of a building you’ve legitimately bought, and putting it back on the market without paying you a penny, simply because you knew it was in a good location and could make some money off of the future sale? Somehow I don’t think that’s all too likely!
Of course, supporters of the DEB will claim that “this is different!” but they seem to be the same people who will still insist that infringement is no different than theft. Funny how that works.
Ever since Microsoft’s ballot screen in Windows started offering users the possibility to choose the web browser they want to set as default on their computers, Opera has registered an increase in the number of downloads all over Europe. One of the most impressive growth in downloads has been noticed in the UK, where the Norwegian company… (