Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
The National Endowment for the Humanities funding continues to be pulled from projects across America. The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance funding has been pulled. Please donate to FESCH. www.fescheritage.org/donate
Following this discussion (I’ve been working up something on privacy for a while)
Have you every found yourself wondering whether the most widely used measures of social cognitive ability measure what they are supposed to measure?
To my own pleasant surprise, this from V&A director Tristram Hunt is good on the problems–and a solution–for UK national museums prevented from deaccessioning under certain terms of the 1983 National Heritage Act. Includes examples of practice in other European countries ('Even Switzerland...'). 📜🗃️
For #BlackHistoryMonth this year, I’m going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag #AncientBlackness. Join me.
BREAKING: The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and the UK say they support the Arab-backed plan for the rebuilding of Gaza that would cost $53bn and avoid displacing Palestinians from the enclave.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bl20ht
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#73 February 7, 2025: “Conversations: To Palestine, With Love… Ancient & Biblical History of the Levant w/ @chancebonar.bsky.social ” in @mythsbaby.bsky.social's Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast
shows.acast.com/67a1934c95d7...
The causes for the decline of humanities programs across regional Australia are both long- and short-term, varied, complex and multifaceted.
australianhumanitiesreview.org/2025/02/20/s...
Great and sobering read! Thanks for this.
I wrote for Everyday Orientalism about our new Society for the Study of the Past and what it is founded on: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/i...
If you weren’t able to make it to our In Solidarity with Palestine II event yesterday you can catch up here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=alb0...
🚨I am thrilled to announce that we have launched the Society for the Study of the Past!
This new subject organisation is for all those who have been let down by existing associations. More info - incl. our manifesto - here:
everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/i...
Screenshot from The Guardian's UK website this morning, under the category 'Egypt', a headline reading 'Smell like an Egyptian: researchers sniff ancient mummies to study preservation'
Hello @theguardian.com, this isn't news about Egypt, as your website categorizes it: it's news about Western scientists using colonial collections in Western museums to do to the ancestral Egyptian dead what they have done for centuries: promote themselves and grab headlines. 🧵📜🏺🗃️
Here's me. "Trump wants to turn Gaza into a casino resort. Ita Buttrose thinks only an ‘activist’ could object"
🚨 Save the date!
The lineup will be announced soon but I can tell you now that it will be *fantastic*
Abstract + rsvp: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/i...
Front cover of the 1888 Christmas edition of the Victorian magazine 'The Cyclist', incorporating a year book for 1889 (document reference: MSS.328/C/5/CYCX/5). The illustration on the front cover is of a reclining gorilla in a pair of red pants, painting a landscape that is visible through a massive arch decorated with images of ancient Egyptian figures riding bicycles and tricycles. The landscape through the arch is a post-apocalyptic swamp which contains some broken pillars and the dome of St Paul's Cathedral. A red sun is either rising or setting behind the swampy view. The caption on the front cover reads 'Professor Gorilla's report being the Cyclist 'Xmas No. for 1888 and year book for 1889. Iliffe & Son 98, Fleet St., London & Coventry. Price One Shilling'.
Nothing says 'Traditional Victorian Christmas' more than a tenured gorilla in red pants painting post-apocalyptic London through an ornamental arch decorated with bicycling pharaohs
The 1888 Christmas edition of 'The Cyclist' entering into the #MerryAndBright festive spirit
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Gentle reminder to journalists flooding into the Syrian capital Damascus for the first time in more than a decade (an undeniably riveting opportunity): Any documents you come across are the property of the Syrian people & crucial evidence. It’s not finders keepers.
