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The Daily Salty: National Adjunct Walkout Day: Should We Feel Sorry for Adjuncts?
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 20. National Adjunct Walkout Day: Should We Feel Sorry for Adjuncts? And yes people pile into doing a PhD without thinking through the implications. If you do a PhD from a good school and in a good area then you're good. But think about it. I'm embarking on a history PhD. If I'm lucky I'll g...Caveat: Unive...
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The Daily Salty: The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 20. The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body. The Gruesome and Excruciating Practice of Mummifying Your Own Body. Top image: Daijuku Bosatsu Shinnyokai-Shonin. Why have people practiced self-mummification? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Here is a logophiliac hug for you! The b...
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The Daily Salty: 28 June 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Monday, June 29. The women suffer silently. They don't have a channel to express their grief. Nor does the society care. For them they are a reminder of their fragility and weakness and honour. And now, 44 years later, they are dying off. Without their stories being told. Anyway. I came out and went for a walk along t...
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The Daily Salty: 17 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Thursday, May 21. The beauty of palm leaf manuscripts (3): storage and preservation. As I've mentioned to you earlier kids, we have three old old manuscripts. Not exactly a full library which will need retrieval eh? But here we hark back to an older age where we have Palm leaf manuscripts. How do you store them? In my two...
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The Daily Salty: 31 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Tuesday, June 2. The benefits of less space. You must have heard about the quote, "work expands to fill the time available"? I don't think so. Till then, see me live out of a suitcase :). By the way, you look really handsome without the braces. You are looking like a man and a handsome man at that. I feel so happy...One o...
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The Daily Salty: 03 May 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Wednesday, May 6. Why bankers are intellectually naked. And you know what? Life goes on and banking goes on. Saving.) (Saving.) Why bankers are intellectually naked -. Http:/ www.ft.com/cms/s/2/39c38b74-715d-11e2-9b5c-00144feab49a.html#axzz2NsN8o3gj. Why bankers are intellectually naked -. Why might even so tiny an increa...
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The Daily Salty: 21 June 2015
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Friday, June 26. Book review. Ibn Khaldun Muqaddimah. What I read was an abridged one volume version of a three volume translation of the original. So much water has flowed under the bridge and all these translations and abridgements have obviously caused much loss of clarity. He is a believer. Don't make the mistake ...
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The Daily Salty: Book review. Ibn Khaldun Muqaddimah
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A daily dose of odds and sods, some interesting, some bizarre, some funny, some thought provoking items which I have stumbled across the web. All to be taken with a grain of daily salt! Friday, June 26. Book review. Ibn Khaldun Muqaddimah. What I read was an abridged one volume version of a three volume translation of the original. So much water has flowed under the bridge and all these translations and abridgements have obviously caused much loss of clarity. He is a believer. Don't make the mistake ...
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Piquant Photos: December 2014
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Some photo-essays on subjects which caught my attention while shambling around the world. If you wanted to use any photographs for your own or commercial purposes, by all means, go ahead, but please just ask me first, I have never said no before :). Monday, December 22, 2014. August 2013: The laughing horse. Now i don't remember why i wandered into the BM, but there you go. I have seen this chap many times, but never up so close. This is from 1st Century AD, representing a roman prince? Links to this post.
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Piquant Photos: April 2015
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Some photo-essays on subjects which caught my attention while shambling around the world. If you wanted to use any photographs for your own or commercial purposes, by all means, go ahead, but please just ask me first, I have never said no before :). Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Dec 2013: Stuffing myself at the Dusseldorf Christmas Market. Besides the walk, there was a visit to the Christmas Market. If you wanna pee. I will be back here soon…. The mighty Rhine flows…. Bloody hell, these shops will kill me!
