During my job I use several applications that can make my life a little bit easier, more professional, or even more educational. I'm going to list several applications that I use during job in the outdoors and the reason for using them, and I'd like those of you who do outdoors jobs or outdoors...
Historical Medieval Battle tournament of various national teams is taking place tonight in Haifa, Israel. However, my friends and I are too busy/lazy to make the pretty short drive there. But I just felt it's cool enough to share.
This is the Israeli national team:
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Israel National...
After having an overdose of all the mind-numbing 'What my alter ego thinks I do'... I have decided to caption a more genuine 'Archaeologist - what they think I do' meme using actual photos from the last couple of years or so of my life.
I challenge all my fellow members, whether they are...
Often during debates about various topics people put on the table the joker card of 'non of it really exists in [obscure] objective reality' and announce it is their right to draw the joker card as often as they want when they are confused or ignorant about the facts. An open cheating method...
Putting aside for a moment the awesomeness of geological formations, tectonic causes for earthquakes and volcanic activity, thunderstorms, supernovas, or the immortal jellyfish off the coast of Japan. You know, just putting all that aside for just one minute.
The parasitical organic presence on...
Although I'm not credited by name, I had a nice surprise today a few hours after I landed in Israel. The (early and medieval Islamic) archaeological excavation I was still working on a few days before I flew to Iceland got noticed in the media, with the area I supervised specifically discussed...
If youtube has blocked the video in your country for audio reasons, hopefully this might work: https://vimeo.com/81337670
The above site's quality actually kicks youtube's *** from what I see.
Video footage of our winter journey to Iceland. Some of the highlights include visitors getting a...
Hullo all!
I'm on my Icelandic winter 'adventure' ATM, and just decided to drop a few regards.
Tomorrow is going to be my fifth day on the island, and I find it to be a gorgeous place, with very intense landscape, and still there is more to see.
Yesterday I visited the site where the first...
Amanda Palmer giving a show for local Tel Avivians, in this instance, by covering Rihanna's 'Umbrella' while Rihanna herself is performing in Israel :D
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Amanda Palmer covers 'Umbrella' by Rihanna while Rihanna is performing in Tel-Aviv - YouTube
This is an extension of a debate that emerged in another thread.
Is the faith, philosophy, or spiritual system that you adhere to (or syncretized to your lifestyle or worldview) arrived to you from your ancestors?
Some background: While many cultures practice certain faiths for centuries...
This is what experts think Proto Indo-European, the mother tongue of all other Indo-European languages, sounded like 6,000 years ago: Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European - Archaeology Magazine
After typing my answer in a similar thread that was recently posted, before submitting my post I noticed that it was placed in the Christianity DIR. So I've decided to post my answer here, and give a chance to members who are not of Christian denominations (and those who are) to participate...
The most impressive find is a large gold medallion bearing an image of the Menorah, which is dated to be 1,400 years old. So far they speculate that this medallion was a decoration of a Torah scroll.
For all the academic critics (or virtual PhD holders :D ), don't blame the messenger if you...
The consensus within the scientific community is that humanity has originated from East Africa, and from there we have made our exodus to other parts of the world gradually. Based on this, we can soundly conclude that all Vedic philosophy, scriptures, tool making, and architecture have...
Today is 5 years since I joined this notorious forum, this pirate bay upon the shores of cyber space, where men and women pit against each other in an orgy of political debates as the gods of the world's pantheons cheer and join everyone for the nectar after.
So, here's to 5 years more!
Today was (well still several hours of evening to exploit!) my first day in Malta. And since I have my laptop with me, I'll try to make it into a 5 day Travel Log across the island, trying to bring a new angle each day.
So without further a due... let's roll.
Fort St Angelo. A great sample...