Eric Kansa 🌹
Working on opencontext.org, trying to do the right thing with #OpenScience & open archaeology. #Resist authoritarianism @ekansa@octodon.social
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Combining Manual and Digital Archaeological Illustration Techniques in 3D
Graphics Officer Hugh Gatt discusses his approach to combining traditional illustration, 3D scanning, and RTI to create rich archaeological illustrations.
Ep. 196: A Sea of Bones
Steven Rinella talks with Dr. Lawrence C. Todd and Janis Putelis. Topics discussed: kill sites; the meaning of an artifact; taphonomy: the study of death; possum that took up residence inside of a dead buck; big-assed tongues; Larry’s “it’s not my...
They Loan You Money. Then They Get A Warrant For Your Arrest.
High-interest loan companies are using Utah’s small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money. Technically, the warrants are issued for missing court hearings. For many, that’s a distinction without a difference.
I am suspending my campaign today
But I want to be clear with you: I am still very much in this fight.
Deutsche Bank Must Comply With Trump Subpoenas, Appeals Court Says
The ruling is a victory for House Democrats who are investigating President Trump’s relationship with the German bank.
Key Results of the Community Needs Survey
Key results of the ARIADNEplus 2019 community needs survey
By Guntram Geser, Salzburg Research, Austria, 15.11.2019
ARIADNEplus has carried out a survey on the needs of the user community regarding data sharing, access and (re)use, new services...
A Better Social Media World Is Waiting for Us
My quest to imagine a different world.
Scott Adams Has Some Ideas for a Calmer Internet
A new book from the 'Dilbert' creator, who came under fire for supporting Donald Trump in 2016, lays out some proposals for online civility.
Open Context: Publisher of Research Data
Home page for Open Context, an open access service for publishing, preserving, exploring and analyzing archaeological research data
Eric Kansa 🌹
I'm mostly finished w upgrading the @OpenContext mirror hosted (thank you!!) by the @dai_weltweit. Here it is, now running again: opencontext.dainst.org
I only broke it for a few weeks (!)🙃b/c we're making tons of changes. My little not so glorious fail (cc @electricarchaeo).
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Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2019
Dystopian islands made of tech trash, a climate emergency zombie plague and the end of the internet: Adam Roberts on the most brilliant SF and fantasy of the year
Failing Gloriously and other Essays
Download for Free | Buy on Amazon ($9)Media Kit Failing Glorious and Other Essays By Shawn Graham. With a foreword by Eric Kansa and an afterword by Neha Gupta. Please, you gotta help me. I’ve nuke…
2020 CALL FOR SESSIONS -
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Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism
Mariana Mazzucato wants liberals to talk less about the redistribution of wealth and more about its creation. Politicians around the world are listening.
'We Wanted Our Patrons Back' — Public Libraries Scrap Late Fines To Alleviate Inequity
"There were families that couldn't afford to pay the fines and therefore couldn't return the materials," Chicago Public Library Commissioner Andrea Telli said. "So then we just lost them as patrons."
Dr Space Junk vs The Universe
Mark & Evette Moran Nib People's Choice Prize 2019Shortlisted for the Mark and Evette Moran NIB Literary Award 2019Shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards 2019: NonfictionGoing boldly forth as a pioneer in the fledgling field
of space...
The SAA Archaeological Record NOVEMBER 2019 - Volume 19 Number 5
Pseudoarchaeology, Scholarship, and Popular Interests in the Past in the Present
Apple changes Crimea map to meet Russian demands
Apple Maps now shows Crimea - annexed from Ukraine in 2014 - as part of Russia, when viewed there.
Eric Kansa 🌹
(Digital) #Archaeology colleagues: why should we care about digital platforms? Because they have huge powers to shape perceptions of reality. Now @Apple has made Crimea (Ukraine) part of Russia, because Apple does what authoritarians want it to do
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