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Load More...ummm, not #badancient of course, but f*cking hell this is appalling and makes no sense - who is we in this example? Not viral, but may be of interest to @greg_jenner
Who da fuck is “we”?!
Pre scientific? Profound ignorance? Well take that Archimedes, Hypatia, etc! #badancient #badetymology #WhyWeNeedTheHumanities
“Disaster"
A prescientific word meaning "Bad Star” from a time of profound ignorance of nature, when misfortune was commonly blamed on cosmic events. Would be true of a killer asteroid. But control of a killer virus? The fault is not in our stars but in ourselves.
Tag Archives: Assyrian History
PTSD (again!): Nothing New Under the Sun?
Book being read, eds. N. Sekunda & B. Burliga, Iphicrates, Peltasts and Lechaeum, (Gdansk, 2014) The article A paper has just been publicised that is causing a mini-flurry of activity on many of the social media sites that I use. … Continue reading
What Could be More Boring than a Database?
This was the question I had in my mind as I went into UCL yesterday afternoon, succumbing to the duty of being a research student and dragging myself to the inevitable tedium that is the Research Training Seminar. The title … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient History & My Research, Day-to-day
Tagged Assyrian History, Databases, Historian, Owen Rees, PhD, Sargon II, UCL
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