For years I’ve had it in the back of my mind to prepare a study called Posture and Gait in Classical Antiquity. We have a variety of sources that could help us reach conclusions about how various types of people tended to stand and move in ancient times. There are literary descriptions of posture and [...]
All posts for the month February, 2012
Walking in Roman Culture
Posted by acilius on February 29, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/29/walking-in-roman-culture/
Unkept Republics
I named my online persona after Gaius Acilius, a man who lived in 155 BC, in part because the history Acilius wrote of Rome seems to have reflected some of the concerns that would define what scholars like Quentin Skinner call the “Republican Tradition” in political thought. Professor Skinner has labeled such thinkers as Hobbes, [...]
Posted by acilius on February 27, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/27/unkept-republics/
John S Wilkins’ “Evolving Thoughts”
A year and a half ago, in September 2010, blogger John S. Wilkins posted something I meant to remark on here. A response to the public discussion going on at the time about Stephen Hawking’s book The Grand Design, it was titled “Stephen Hawking and the Creation of the Universe.” Mr Wilkins’ point was that, [...]
Posted by acilius on February 25, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/25/john-s-wilkins-evolving-thoughts/
The American Conservative, March 2012
The table of contents of the March issue of The American Conservative seems to have a problem. I haven’t seen the print edition yet, but the page numbers in the online edition’s table of contents don’t match the pages numbers in the magazine. There was a similar, though smaller-scale, problem with last month’s issue. In [...]
Posted by acilius on February 24, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/24/the-american-conservative-march-2012/
Weirdomatic goes bananas
Over at Weirdomatic, fotb Irina Alexandra has posted a gallery of banana-shaped household products. I found these especially charming:
Posted by acilius on February 24, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/24/weirdomatic-goes-bananas/
JFK, George Quintana, and tumblr
Our tumblr page is called “Thunderlads After Hours.” If you are a tumblr user, you will be familiar with the service’s “Dashboard” feature. All the posts on all the tumblr pages you follow appear before you in a constant stream. We follow lots of people, so we see lots of images when we log on [...]
Posted by acilius on February 23, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/23/jfk-george-quintana-and-tumblr/
Atheism is no excuse for skipping church
In a recent review of Alain de Botton‘s Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion, John Gray writes: Rarely mentioned in the debates of recent years is that atheism has been linked with all kinds of positions in ethics, politics and philosophy. More particularly, there is no necessary connection – either [...]
Posted by acilius on February 22, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/22/atheism-is-no-excuse-for-skipping-church/
The smallest and the largest
In 1968, designers Charles and Ray Eames released a short film called “Powers of Ten.” Here it is: Here’s a tribute to the film that appeared as xkcd #271: There’s something I occasionally wonder about. People sometimes say that hearing about the scale of the universe at its largest makes them feel small and unimportant. [...]
Posted by acilius on February 13, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/13/the-smallest-and-the-largest/
Ukulele Hunt’s Ukulele Video of the Year 2011 Contest
It’s time to go to Ukulele Hunt and vote for the best ukulele video posted online last year. I seem to have been the first person to have voted for Amanda Palmer & the Young Punx’ “Map of Tasmania” (Oh. My. Gawd!,) and the second to have voted overall. I won’t deny that several of [...]
Posted by acilius on February 6, 2012
http://losthunderlads.com/2012/02/06/ukulele-hunts-ukulele-video-of-the-year-2011-contest/
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