Medieval Robots
Medieval is the new modern.
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Roll Call
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I've updated the blog roll and added some goodies: The Recipe Project has great posts and links on early modern recipes and "food...
Thursday, August 8, 2013
The Alpha and Omega of Human Artifice
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H/t to MB, one of Medieval Robots' LA correspondents, for drawing my attention to this mind-blowing ad for the Omega Co-Axial Chronome...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Professors Aren't Robots
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Two great recent essays appeared in Inside Higher Ed in the past weeks that articulate the purposes and benefits of a college education, and...
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Dispatches from the Cam: "Medieval" = Awesome
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The most recent issue of my Cambridge alumni magazine [sub. req'd.] has a great interview with Professor Helen Cooper about how the Midd...
Thursday, June 13, 2013
A Visit to Schloss Hellbrunn
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I recently had the good fortune to visit Schloss Hellbrunn, outside Salzburg. The palace has one of the oldest and most extensive collection...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Check Out BBC Doc "Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams"
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BBC Four just aired a cracking documentary on automata, written and presented by historian of science Simon Schaffer . It's really good...
Thursday, May 30, 2013
MOOCs and the Liberal Arts
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Nathan Heller's recent piece in The New Yorker about MOOCs at Harvard is fantastic. It's not as long as it could be (I rarely say ...
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