Samoan Minoans from Ancient Crete. This is just plain nuts, but, as the RogueClassicist said, “it’s fun to say ‘Samoan Minoan'”
The Origin of Polynesia [???]
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
“…the prominent thin profile of the iPad2”
Monday Night Irish Class, August 8, 2011
Irish Class, August 8, 2011
Rang Gaeilge, 8ú lá Mí na Lúnasa 2011
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Burma Shave
Maintaining Gaffneyis Gear
We took four of colgaffneyis polearms (3 pikes and a partisan) to Fort William and back last weekend. You can see how they traveled here.These take a lot of abuse at our events. The heads are always getting rusty. The shafts have not received any maintenance in 5 years to my certain knowledge, and I suspect much longer. The problem was similar to that of rehabbing old tools, which I often done before (e.g. these posts). However, there was an issue of scale. The partisan is 6 feet long. Two of the pikes measure 10 feet, and the third 14. Continue reading
The Smallest Mini-Galaxy in the Universe!
Updating a well known commercial
From xkcd.
Captain Kirk, Batman, and Alexander the Great
William Shatner and Adam West reflect on their toga days
from RogueClassicism
One additional thought: William Shatner is now 80 years old. Alexander the Great was 33 when he died.
The End of Time …
The Big Crunch: Physicists Make Time End
Physicists Recreate ‘End Of Time’ in Lab
(The technical details) Hyperbolic metamaterial interfaces: Hawking radiation from Rindler horizons and the “end of time”
It should be noted that this is a simulation of one possible way our universe might evolve, one that current observations suggest is incorrect. However, it is a solution of Einstein’s equations of General Relativity, and as such well worth studying.
When I was much younger something like this might have been called an “analog computer.” I have not seen that term much lately.
Dark Matter Explained in One Minute
With no math. From Cocktail Party Physics
See also my post Dark Matter: Still needed.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 