Dear colleagues, It's the weekend, so that a message that is not strictly academic is also in order. I just received a note from Prof. M. G. Dhadphale,...
It's the weekend, plus, April's Fools day again... Unasked for, but just in time, today's latest message from a staunch Hindu nationalist/chauvinist. Too long...
This appeal from the Bhandarkar Institute is all the more pitiful because many of the big moneybags of India are Hindutva types, not likely to support an...
Pyramid Found in New England http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/nepyramid Bigfoot Shocker!! http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/bigfoot/ Enjoy...
Dear Katherine, thanks a lot for your wonderful "web discoveries"... They are really great... Volker ... -- Dr. Volker Thewalt Kapellenweg 8 D-69257 Wiesenbach...
Re Rajaram's latest effusions. This is the Magpie Effect: picking up various shiny things at random & taking them back to the nest... Sudha R Shenoy ... [From...
Very near to european pica pica, in German: Elster... stealing silvery spoons etc. .... Best, Volker (It's weekend, so I dare...) ... -- Dr. Volker Thewalt ...
Dear Victor et al., Two new papers were just added today to PubMed on the issue of contamination, etc., involving ancient DNA -- one from Oxford and the second...
... Ever after I read this for the first time some months ago, I've been wondering what is the "evidence" Rajaram presents in his book for the alleged...
[Mod. note. I do love the term "hyperdiffusionists," Kat. But Francesco knows well that Rajaram doesn't *need* evidence. :^) - Steve.] Ever after I read this...
I am so glad that the Bennington pyramid complex has been made public. I now realize that the 3 glassy-surfaced pyramidal forms looming out of the trees...
... Would the report happen to be the following? Computational Linguistics Volume 18 , Issue 3 (September 1992) Automatic clustering of languages by: ...
Many thanks for the news. A hostel at BORI would indeed be very welcome. However, before we untie our purse strings, a few questions must be put and answered....
Dearest Professors, Let me say - above all - that I am very glad and honoured of being part of this Group. I ask Your pardon if I start with a question. Surely...
[Mod. note. Thanks much, Trudy. I do understand the problem of site access and issues involving fund-raising. It is also obvious that some research fields are...
Must reading (even if it isn't the weekend) from the Guardian from Terry Jones, one of the founders of Monty Python -- who compares the "humiliation" of the...
Dear Steve, This wonderful piece is really a "must reading" or, as we say in modern nowadays German: "echt geil"! Thanks a lot for that contribution... Volker...
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Victor H. Mair
vmair@...
Apr 2, 2007 9:46 pm
[Mod. note. "World brain" complete with spam, Victor! :^) - Steve.] Dear Colleagues, I sent the message below to Steve, and he encouraged me to share the items...
From the BBC 2nd April 2007: Ancient human unearthed in China The remains of one of the earliest modern humans to inhabit eastern Asia have been unearthed in a...
I think that there are possible solutions to the type of problem raised. One of the ideas behind setting up an online Knowledge Management System would be to...
NY Times story today on archaeology and Exodus: http://tinyurl.com/2g2cqq April 3, 2007 North Sinai Journal Did the Red Sea Part? No Evidence, Archaeologists...
Dear Sebastian, I think your plans for a publicly accessible data base are very important. But the problem now is that is that researchers pushing dubious (or...
Dear Steve, Trudy and all, There is currently no advantage in releasing data because, in our fields, the structure of knowledge (and power ;-) remains...
Dear Sebastian, I think what you have been working on with your colleagues, described here http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/vol2num2/GIS.html and now...
Sebastian Stride said: "...we must _make_ it in the _egoistical interest_ of scholars to include their knowledge into an open source management system." ...
Dear list, I know this is quite a bit off topic, but would anyone in the group know of any resources on Islamic universities in the C16th and C17th? With...
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Hussain, Amir
amir.hussain@...
Apr 4, 2007 1:46 am
Greetings all. A good book to start with is Jonathan Berkey's The Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo: A social history of Islamic Education. It is...
