So today I spend a lot of time at the airport waiting for my plane to take off. It occurred to me that there are certain types of people at airports. So, naturally, I started a little ethnographic study to classify people moving around an international airport. Let’s get started. Type 1: The runners So…
Today I’m not going to talk about science or archaeology, I’m going to talk about comics. Every two years, the German city of Erlangen hosts the Comic Salon. For four days, the Bavarian city turns into a cultural centre for comic lovers, cosplayers and many more. I was there for two days and came away…
This week I’m going to write something of a personal announcement. As I have had a lot of technical difficulties with my former newsletter service, GetResponse, over the last few months, I have decided to ditch it and move on. It took a while to find something I needed, but I found something that integrates…
I do not consider myself an expert, but I have been blogging for more or less exactly three years now. Apart from a few minor exceptions, I have managed to publish a small article every.single.week. I am quite proud of that, even though I know that my articles are not the deepest or the longest….
Yes, I am calling it Twitter. I discovered the social platform in September 2018 and was very excited entering a network of people who seemed very nice and supportive. I spend a lot of time and energy to build up a small audience, but I fear it was all in vain. Since the purchase of…
Wow! 15 years and two days ago I co-founded a visualisation company called Artefacts specialised in creating scientific archaeological 3D reconstructions and visualisations for research and science communication. 15 years! I still was a student back then and this company is still running and busy today! I think it is time to have a look…
For the last seven years, I worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Archaeology, chair for Digital and Computational Archaeology. This week is my last week in a job that I didn’t really know what to expect of, started to love, and will build upon in the future. This is how I came…
So for a while now I am a collector. A collector of Indiana Jones comics. I have stated in the past that I am not a big fan of good old Indy archaeologically, but as adventure-stories, his movies, games and… well comics still hold up. So, I started to read the comics, and am fascinated,…
Climate change is real. I can’t understand people that do not see that, but we’ll leave them aside for now. This blog is (partly) about Archaeology and here is my take: By examining how ancient civilizations navigated shifting environmental conditions, we glean insights that can illuminate a sustainable path forward. The question is how? Archaeological…
Uh, I like that title. I like a good alliteration like the next guy. Anyway, I recently listened to the rather famous musical Hamilton, which is broadly about the life of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father who served as the first Secretary of Treasury during George Washington’s presidency. If you don’t know, now you know……