Cognitive Anthropology, possibly related to my earlier post about a field of study.

Viruses: a thorough scholarly treatment of the oft-debated plural of virus.

While following up on a topic from an earlier post, I learned that UGA offers a degree program in cognitive science. Drool. radiantbaby and I were making plans to visit their campus on Friday anyway; I just might see if I can dig up somebody from the department for a chat. Yayness ( Read more... )

There is a field of study that underlies information theory. It supports linguistics. It drives religion, and it explains science. It guides unwitting marketers, newsies, and other world leaders. It is the Philosopher's Stone of the modern information age and possibly many ages past. It is the study of pure ideas. It is the study of human ( Read more... )

Visited Borders today. Found that the one down in town across from City Hall East has a really good selection of classics and language texts. Definitely going to have to make it back there sometime. Picked up:
* The Greeks and the Irrational, by E. R. Dodds
* Greek Lyric I: Sappho and Alcaeus (LCL#142)
* Greek Mathematical Works: Thales to ( Read more... )

I did it! I called him and gave him my credit card number. No real problems. I had to ask him to slow down a little once, and there were one or two times that I didn't know a phrase in French but he knew it in English. Overall, though, a pretty seamless transaction. At the end he even complimented me on my French *beam*! Shipments go out once a ( Read more... )

M. Bachelet responded to my email the other day explaining that they don't have a secure website for purchases: that it's just little ol' him. He says people usually give him their credit card numbers via mail, fax, or courrier, but that I was also welcome to call him. I'm gonna do it. I've never made a phone call to Europe before, let alone one in ( Read more... )

Finished Rosenzweig. More about Aphrodite in Piraeus, particularly the cult of Aphrodite Euploia (Good Voyages) and its likely connection to similar cults in Kypros. I was wrong, by the way: that wasn't the last chapter. Last chapter was about Aphrodite on the east frieze of the Parthenon. The chapter was mostly lost on me, as I didn't see how ( Read more... )

For those who are following my attempts to locate any purchase my own copy of L'Aphrodite greque, or who just want to laugh at my French, below is my reply to my most recent note from M. Bachelet:

Je vous félicite pour votre français qui est certainement meilleur que mon anglais!

Merci. J'ai beaucoup oublie. Sans mon dictionnaire je suis ( Read more... )

My original note to M. Bachelet, Mme Pirenne's contact who may have da goodz:

Bonjour M. Bachelet ( Read more... )

I read my quota over the weekend. Busy weekend, so it was slow going. Rosenzweig. Iconography with Aphrodite riding side-saddle on the back of a goat. Possible associations to both Aphrodite Ouranos and Aphrodite Pandemos. Last chapter starts in on a shrine to Aphrodite Hippolytos suspected to be on the south side of the acropolis and also on the ( Read more... )