Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Book Announcement!

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I'm pleased to announce that Medieval Robots , my book on medieval automata, will be coming to bookstores and the Internet in Spring/Sum...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Playing Those Medieval Robot Games

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Google has alerted me to the fact that Starbound , a PC game that should be coming out in the next few months, contains medieval robots . Th...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Russian Meteorite Could Provide the Next Excalibur

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Intense! That Russian meteor was bananas. Apparently , the bright explosion was perhaps caused by the amount of iron in it.    This mete...
Thursday, January 31, 2013

Using Computers to Date Medieval Manuscripts

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A recent article in the Journal of Applied Statistics by two computer scientists and a medieval historian at the University of Toronto det...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

How Early Modern Animal Jetpacks Went Viral

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Alexis Madrigal , over at The Atlantic , has a post up about a 16th-century German manuscript image. The image, below, is from a German man...
Saturday, January 12, 2013

And Speaking of Exploitative & Oppressive Structures...

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The IRS has just put colleges and universities on notice not to under-estimate the number of hours that adjunct faculty work. Many schools...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Undoing the University

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My colleague and pal, Dom Tyranny , turned me on to The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research . Which is fabulous. Reading between the line...