According to a recent TED lecture by astronomer Dimitar Sasselov, there may be other planets capable of sustaining higher forms of life. And they’re not in some far off place, they’re right here in our own Milky Way galaxy. Check it out.
Filed under: scholarship, technology | Tagged: aliens, Dimitar Sasselov, earth, earth-like, life, milky way, planets, ted | 1 Comment »
you simply will not believe this video. the pilot literally ejected moments before the crash. the pilot is said to be alive and receiving treatment at the hospital.
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Owen Jarus at Heritage Key has a nice summary of new evidence regarding the origin of the longest of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Temple Scroll (11QT). Led by Professor Giuseppe Pappalardo, a team of Italian scientists made up of researchers of the National Laboratories of the South (LNS) in Catania of the Istituto Nazionale [...]
Filed under: archaeology, dead sea scrolls, israel, Jerusalem, palestine, qumran, scholarship, science, technology | Tagged: animal husbandry, bromine, catania, chlorine, date palm, dead sea, dead sea scrolls, essenes, giuseppe pappalardo, heritage key, INFN, ink, inkwell, istituto nazionale di fisica nucleare, national institute for nuclear physics, national laboratories of the south, owen jarus, parchment, proton, qumran, robert cargill, temple scroll, XPIXE, yuval peleg | 5 Comments »
Dr. Annelie Rugg pointed me to a great site for people who love cheat charts for everything from programming language to HTML tags to ‘how to’ sheets. If you love referring to verb paradigms on a handy reference chart, then you’ll love cheat-sheets.org. It’s a website full of simple instructions for how to do just [...]
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Several UCLA professors were recently awarded Google Digital Humanities Research grants. The awards involved two projects headed by Dr. Timothy Tangherlini and Dr. Todd Presner. According to the UCLA Press release: Timothy Tangherlini, chair of UCLA’s Scandinavian Section, will split a $45,000 grant with post-doc fellow Peter Leonard to develop tools that will allow them [...]
Filed under: digital humanities, technology, ucla | Tagged: chris johanson, david shepard, digital humanities, google, grants, hypercities, james lee, northern insights, peter leonard, timothy tangherlini, todd presner, ucla | Leave a Comment »
Where was this in 2006 when I was digging there? lol. Potentially great news: according to Dr. Jack Sasson: Hazor Law Code Fragments The Selz Foundation Hazor Excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin have recovered two fragments of a cuneiform tablet preserving portions of a law code at Hazor. The text parallels portions of the [...]
Filed under: archaeology, bible, judaism | Tagged: amnon ben-tor, cuneiform, hammurabi, hazor, hebrew university, israel exploration society, jack sasson, law code, selz foundation, text, tooth for a tooth, yigael yadin | 5 Comments »
Dr. Christopher Rollston has published an excellent examination of the small cuneiform text that was recently discovered in the Jerusalem Ophel, and a critique of some of the claims made by its discoverer, Eilat Mazar, who recently published the findings with others in Israel Exploration Journal (Eilat Mazar, Wayne Horowitz, Takayoshi Oshima, and Yuval Goren, [...]
Filed under: archaeology, israel, Jerusalem, palestine, scholarship | Tagged: akkadian, amarna, ben hartman, bible places blog, christopher rollston, city of david, cuneiform, david byrd, eilat mazar, ferrell jenkins, hebrew university, institute of archeology, Jerusalem, jim davila, ophel, tablet, takayoshi oshima, voice of america, wayne horowitz, yuval goren | 3 Comments »
news sites beginning to prohibit anonymous comments
it was only a matter of time. the claims by some that certain forms of speech including slander/libel, defamation, and forgery are protected under the first amendment simply because they are spoken or written anonymously is coming to an end. according to an article by stephanie goldberg on cnn.com: Like those bathroom-stall messages, online comments [...]
Filed under: anonymity, internet, journalism, news, technology | Tagged: anonymity, cnn, comments, criminal impersonation, forgery, identity theft, internet, libel, news, slander, stephanie goldberg, websites | 3 Comments »