August 2009
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Very interesting item from the Hexham Courant: A HEXHAM archaeologist has challenged perceived wisdom with startling claims that Hadrian’s Wall was originally built of wood. In a 65,000 word thesis published on his website, Geoff Carter says his hypothesis answers some age-old questions. Archaeologists have long wondered why the ditch that runs parallel is several…
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Seen on the Classicists list: PENN-LEIDEN COLLOQUIUM ON ANCIENT VALUES (VI) We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the sixth Penn-Leiden Colloquium: AESTHETIC VALUE IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA June 25-27, 2010 Greek and Roman cultures were alive with the arts and deeply interested in questions of aesthetic …
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Seen on various lists: Text/Performance: Provisional Programme A workshop organised by the editors of Don Fowler’s unpublished Unrolling the Text to assess the place of this work in the field of Classics ten years since the author’s death. The workshop will be held on 22nd and 23rd September 2009 in the Ioannou Centre for Classical…
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This one’s been making the rounds of various lists these past days … it’s a German television program entirely in Latin (except for the German subtitles); it isn’t that difficult to understand, especially with the accompanying visuals …
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Wading through assorted items my spiders dragged back to me, I note the following excerpt at Official Spin … I’ve emphasized what caught my eye: Beta-galactosidase is widely used as a reporter gene in the life sciences, and detection is typically performed with a colorimetric substrate. Recently, a near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent beta-galactosidase activity assay for…
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