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I think what the author is saying is that academia has really bought into the idea of DWYL and so they think payment is an afterthought (since loving what you do is its own reward). The problem is that this kind of thinking hurts those at the bottom. It's one thing to say “I love my job and so I'll be content with $85k/year in a tenured position,” but it's another thing to say “We'll pay the adjunct $3k to teach class X this semester. It doesn't concern us that he doesn't get benefits, or that he'll have to find another four classes to adjunct just to make a decent living.” This is especially curious given that liberals often claim they are for things like worker's rights and just wages.You are right that people who adjunct probably need to find other jobs in their fields. While this may be feasible for those in certain areas (business, engineering, etc.) it is really difficult in the humanities. I imagine a person with a PhD in philosophy will have a hard time getting regular work in a related field if he wants to adjunct at the same time.
Ski, how long was the guy occupying the machine? I can see the frustration especially if the gym/equipment is limited and someone takes his own sweet time hogging something (I haven't run into that problem at my current gym because there's almost always something else I can use if need be). As for cell phones - did you ever see that commercial around Christmas (I think it was for the iPhone) where a kid is with his family and is always doing stuff on his cell phone so it makes him look antisocial, and at the end we see that the whole time he was filming a touching home movie of all the moments with his family? I guess we're supposed to find redemption in the antisocial phone user? IMO, that was kind of a dumb commercial.
While they don't explain how they know it's a Neanderthal cave, I think we can presume that such a conclusion has already been made through other scientific examination. They can use carbon dating on the bones, as well as TL dating on items which may have been in the hearth (e.g. pottery). Maybe they don't mention this in the article simply because the main issue written about is the domestic activities of Neanderthals, rather than the issue of whether they actually lived in the cave. Just my thoughts.
New pet peeve of mine – there's a guy at the gym who goes around singing to himself. I think he's wearing headphones while he's doing it. He doesn't sing all the words, just some of them, and it's starting to annoy me quite a bit. Oh, and this guy must be around 50, so it's not some teenager who's the culprit. Argh!
Or it could be a rabbit. Or it could be a type of deer mentioned in the article. Or…I'm guessing it could be a kangaroo which was brought from Australia to some place in SE Asia. I know next to nothing about Australian history, so I was unaware that Europeans did not know about it until the Seventeenth Century. But, assuming others closer to Australia had visited the continent, they would have probably brought back Australian “things” to their home countries.
Yes, hence their versitility. I also recall the fact that they were able to portage with their ships. One defense against the Vikings by Carolingian-era people was to create fortified or “armed” bridges which could attack Viking ships from above. The Vikings were able avoid these altogether simply by taking their ships out of water and going around them.
I just took a look at longship speeds, and it seems they averaged about 5-10 knots (Skuldelev 3 – The coastal trader, Skuldelev 2 – The great longship), or about 10 mph. So this would not have been nearly as fast as attack by horse. But even assuming these ships were faster going down rivers than most other ships at the time, I imagine people would still have sufficient time to flee (assuming they had a decent line of sight). But this is speculative on my part. 🙂I am still impressed by longships due to their versatility (and I am impressed by the Vikings in general). I'm not saying I like the Vikings for what they did, but they do command attention.
That's true – he does essentially say that he is just proposing a theory. I know the two of us have debated this kind of thing in the past, and curiously we each seem to switch sides of the fence on the issue of archaeology/historical knowledge from time to time. I guess the thing that made me a bit disappointed was that the story was on Drudge, so I thought it would be more than just a theory. I mean, there must be numerous theories proposed by scientists and others who have attempted to explain historical issues (the proposal that Akhenaton had Frohlich's syndrome because of his distinct facial/body features is one such example) and these are not on Drudge, or given much attention on most mainstream news outlets.I suppose just taking the story at face value, though, it is noteworthy.
I guess. It's just a very long way to travel down rivers in longships. I haven't read anything about this, but I suppose they went in large groups of longships. That must have been quite the site for local people hanging out at the river one day, only to see a slew of slow-moving ships, packed with Vikings come around the bend. It's not as if the local Carolingian garrison would have been able to respond in any quick timeframe, so the locals would have more or less been on their own against the Norsemen.
I read that after I saw the link from Drudge, and it seems Drudge may have over-reacted by putting the link on his site. I don't think what this scientist is saying is anything that helps us make a definitive statement. I was looking through the article to see if they actually did lab tests on remains linked to Alexander (though it would have been a surprise to me if any such remains existed) and I was a bit bummed when I didn't see such information. It's just information which we can add to the long list of potential explanations, based in science, which could explain historical phenomena but which cannot presently be verified.
Are you saying that because it doesn't take into account the diversity of rifles made over the past few centuries? Probably just because the site that made the infographic is based in the U.S. I imagine that if they made a true timeline, the list would be excessively long.
Aetheling is close enough – the Glyptothek is one of the buildings. The area is the Königsplatz in Munich.I took the picture in 2002 when I was there (actually three photos, which I just recently merged using Hugin). I had thought that the area was constructed by the Nazis based on information I heard at that time, but I now see that Nazis built only some temples at this site which were later destroyed in 1947. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6nigsplatz,_Munich
