An archaeologist excavates a casket lid from the Mississippi State Asylum (image from University of Mississippi Medical Center Public Affairs) Dr. Howard Williams Professor of Archaeology University of Chester Dr. Alison Atkin Professor of Archaeology University of Sheffield Originally published in Internet Archaeology as Williams, H. and Atkin, A. 2015 Virtually Dead: Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology,[…]
Omar Mohammed Batawil: abducted in front of his home in Aden Youth shot dead after complaints about Facebook postings By Brian Whitaker / 04.26.2016 Renouncing Islam is a crime punishable by death in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen. In practice, though, the law isn’t implemented nowadays. On the rare occasions[…]
Click the Image to Find a Store That’s right folks, independent bookstores have a day – TODAY, April 30, and social media is celebrating with the hashtag #IndependentBookStoreDay – join the fun! Bookstores across the country – independent, that is – are celebrating the day as well. Some are offering special deals and few with[…]
Porch of Maidens, Acroplis, Athens / Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Historian Editor-in-Chief, Brewminate The art and architecture of the Early Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece stand as representations of a culture that occupied only a wrinkle in time in world history but left an enduring legacy. “Those who dream by night in the[…]
Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief The Carolingian period in the late eighth and ninth centuries served as a pivotal moment in Western Europe. The Western Roman Empire was no more, and the chaos and continued fighting that followed its dissolution as the church asserted its authority would climax in yet another empire[…]
Seattle SEA-TAC Airport Transit / Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.30.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief A man from North Carolina, Joshua Gitlin, was arrested by Seattle police after being caught by an 8-year-old boy’s father taking a picture of the boy in an adjacent stall in the bathroom by raising his phone above the stall.[…]
From Will S. at TheLiteracySite.com: For most, the love of books starts in childhood. For others, this love blooms later, eventually revealing the vibrant colors of a true bibliophile! But science has started looking into the effects of reading on the brain. They’ve done experiments, ran MRIs, polled, and surveyed, all to what end? Studies have been[…]
Today’s storytellers show that each of us can be part of something more powerful, diverse, and creative than we might have imagined. By Sarah van Gelder If we make it through this time of climate crisis and economic upheaval, the new storytellers will deserve some of the credit. The new storytellers are writers, poets, musicians,[…]
By Jessica Mason / 04.30.2016 Efforts to gut the federal False Claims Act backed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce got a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday. The federal push builds on previous back-door Chamber efforts through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) to discourage states from pursuing fraud claims. The False Claims Act (FCA)[…]
Loyalist Peter Oliver / Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Peter Oliver began his manuscript, Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion, with historical inaccuracy by stating that the Americans may have been singularly unique in revolting against the parent power absent severe oppression from it. Numerous examples could be brought forth going[…]
Wikimedia Commons By Matthew A. McIntosh Brewminate Editor-in-Chief When children do not want to do something they have been told to do and argue insistently about the unfairness of life, parents often call upon that reasoning in which is provided the ultimate mantle of authority to which there is no successful response – just because. […]
By Matthew A. McIntosh / 04.30.2016 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief For so long we have seemingly ignored the remarks of candidates during their campaigns against those of the same party when seek that party’s nomination as “just politics”. It’s as though this particularly form of lying is okay, well, just because. No, it’s not okay. A lie[…]
By Dr. Julie Robinson International Space Station Chief Scientist Collecting data before, during and after the mission in space We are already aware of risks to astronauts during spaceflight, and adverse effects caused by long-term living in microgravity. Extending that knowledge base to longer missions is one piece of the focus of studies for the[…]