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LiseAndreasen, 1 month ago to random

@mrundkvist
Did you know?
https://thoughtfuldane.com/2024/05/05/see-you-at-lincon/

mrundkvist, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Archaeology

About those Roman bronze openwork polyhedrons. The methods we would typically use for investigating their function are: 1) find context (structures and find combinations), 2) period imagery (if any), 3) signs of use wear. We never start by making up a way in which it is possible to use them.

#archaeology #roman

mrundkvist, 2 months ago to Stockholm

#Stockholm Mastodon #meetup! Wednesday 17 April 17:30 at Wirström’s pub, Stora Nygatan 13, Gamla Stan. I’ve booked the big round table with the couches in the cellar. Join me there for pub food, drinks and conversation!

LiseAndreasen, 2 months ago to random

#CassReport
https://x.com/AssignedMale/status/1778360917715014086?t=qHJ0iA9EbMeM-bQexYH7Sg&s=09

LiseAndreasen, 2 months ago to movies

20 #films about #math, mathematicians and math geniuses
For film buffs, there are plenty of movies involving mathematical concepts and/or famous figures in the discipline — both real and fictitious. Not sure where to start? Try these 20 films about math, mathematicians and math geniuses.
https://www.yardbarker.com/entertainment/articles/20_films_about_math_mathematicians_and_math_geniuses_032524/s1__28630979

mrundkvist, 3 months ago to Musicals

Saw the Moulin Rouge #musical at the China Theatre in #Stockholm. It's an amazing production. Extremely lavish. Such an enormous amount of work and talent and stage resources put in by such a huge group of people. And all of this in service of a story that was completely cliché and hackneyed already at the time when the musical is set. You need to be ten years old or less to follow it with interest. I was simply embarrassed.

mrundkvist, 3 months ago to languagelearning

Funny thing about language history. We tend to think our home language is a homogenous unit, with just a few recent slang additions. When in fact some words and pieces of grammar are over 5000 years old, others were made up 150 years ago.

#language

mrundkvist, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random Swedish

The rule when stacking things is that the bigger ones form the base and the smaller ones go on top. It always causes a small computer crash in my head that when you're stacking lidless plastic containers with the same footprint, the lowest ones form the base and the tallest ones are inserted up top. Otherwise your stack gets super tall.

mrundkvist, 6 months ago to academia Swedish

Mitt fackförbund har släppt en rapport om "resurskrisen inom humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning". Man kräver bl.a. tryggare anställningar inom akademin. Men rapporten nämner inte "merit" eller "kvalifi" (-kation, -cerad etc.).

Jag efterlyser också tryggare anställningar inom akademin, men bara för folk med starka meriter. Då 60-70% av svenska professorer är anställda där de disputerade är ju meritokratin sedan länge i stort sett satt ur spel.

https://dik.se/om-oss/nyheter/att-forsta-och-forklara-samhallet

#academia

LiseAndreasen, 6 months ago to random

@mrundkvist
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spot-on

mrundkvist, 7 months ago to mastodon Swedish

Why are suddenly most images in my feed invisible unless I click on them? #mastodon

mrundkvist, 7 months ago to Archaeology

Archaeological excavations in Sweden come in two varieties. 1) Contract work for land development where you have money but you don't get to choose where to dig. 2) Research-motivated work where you have almost no money but you choose the site.

Remarkably, Stockholm's Old Town has never seen a category 2 excavation.

#archaeology

mrundkvist, 7 months ago to random Swedish

"De-railed", Sw. urspårat, is a common technical term in Swedish place-name studies. It's when the users of a place name forget completely about its original meaning and component linguistic elements, and start pronouncing it in increasingly strange and misunderstood ways. An infamous example is Hönsgärde, "Chicken Enclosure", a hamlet between Stockholm and Uppsala, which was originally named Hidkinskialf, "Hidkin's Ledge".

mrundkvist, 8 months ago to Archaeology

I put out an ebook in 2016 where I argue that #archaeology is fun but does not matter, not compared to things that really matter. There are very few things in archaeology that Cornelius Holtorf and I agree about. But he wrote a book titled "Archaeology is a Brand", so I think he agrees with me in opposing A.B. Stahl's views.

mrundkvist, 8 months ago to academia

Reminding everyone: the Google Lens smart phone app can scan and OCR convert pretty much any kind of text. You never have to type text from a book or archive document again.

#academia

mrundkvist, 8 months ago to random

During dinner the restaurant played #BruceSpringsteen's "The River". Weirdest delivery of song lyrics. He emotes passionate regret on the severe tragedy level, but when you listen to the #lyrics there's nothing very sad about them. Could just as well be delivered in a "fond memories with my spouse" mood. File next to "Happy To Be Stuck With You" and "Still The One".

#rock

mrundkvist, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to science Swedish

I was slightly acquainted with a mad scientist in the 90s. He didn't build doomsday devices, but he was a scientist, head of a lab, and mentally ill. Specifically, he showed symptoms of paranoid delusion and delusions of grandeur. Eventually he was removed from his lab, and his professorship moved across the org chart from an academic department to the university's HR department.

#science #academia #mentalillness

mrundkvist, 9 months ago to politics Swedish

Classical Adam Smith #liberalism would work fine if everyone was strong, smart and well informed.

#politics

mrundkvist, 10 months ago to scifi Swedish

#Movie: Total Recall (1990). P.K. Dick invites us to ponder: is Douglas Quaid a humble construction worker who dreams that he's a secret agent on Mars, or is it the other way around? A. Schwarzenegger's and S. Stone's involvement makes the answer kind of obvious. And there's about half an hour of gratuitous fight scenes. Grade: OK.

#scifi #movies #films

mrundkvist, 10 months ago to writing Swedish

Hey everybody who writes! Are you looking for one simple way to make me lose all confidence in you? It's easy! Just wobble randomly between the past and present tense! For that really solid punch, wobble inside sentences!

#writing

mrundkvist, 10 months ago to books Swedish

Funny coincidence: Mark Twain and Somerset Maugham both argue against the existence of free will in the #books I'm reading in parallel. But then I chose them both because they are quite congenial to my own taste and way of thinking, and I certainly don't believe in free will.

#reading

mrundkvist, 11 months ago to Etymology Swedish

All the other Nassaus are named for a town in the Rhineland in Western Germany. The name means "wet pastureland along river".

#nassau #etymology

LiseAndreasen, 1 year ago to random

@mrundkvist
https://www.tv2east.dk/holbaek/mystiske-runer-blev-opdaget-i-sjaellandsk-kirke-nu-ved-vi-hvad-der-staar