November 20, 2010
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A couple of interesting items on the benefits of Classics have meandered through my social networks and email this week. First, and most recent (within a few minutes) is an ‘open letter’ in the journal Genome Biology, in which a Science professor smacks down SUNY Albany’s prez for their recent cuts to, among other things,…
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Image via CrunchBase There are a couple of versions of the same article kicking around my mailbox and also being bounced around assorted sources on Twitter (including my own Exploratorraw autobot). The two I’ve come across so far are both ultimately via ANI and purport to be telling us new info in the search for…
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Image via Wikipedia T’other evening on Twitter I was bemoaning the lack of statuary in an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s … turns out I wasn’t looking at the right auction (that was a smaller auction of items from the Clarence Day collection) … whatever the case, the ‘bigger auction’ catalog is online and my eye…
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Okay … it seems it’s time for yet another installment in the Crassus-lost-army-made-it-to-the-Liqian-region-of-China-and-procreated saga … here’s the incipit of the latest effort: Chinese and Italian anthropologists this week established an Italian studies center at a leading university in northwest China to determine whether some Western-looking Chinese in the area are the descendants of a lost…
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