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Like any self-respecting scholar of classical antiquity, I have Opinions about Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey, even if I haven’t seen it yet.
(1) Obviously the most important aspect of any such adaptation is how it relates to my own specialist field, so I was delighted to see a clear Thucydidean influence in the rational explanation of the Trojan War as being...
This will be a shorter newsletter than usual, so I’m glad that I’m not attempting to charge anyone for it… Long-standing readers of this blog, especially those who stuck with the ‘Twelve Days in the Year’ series, will be aware that I’ve been struggling for some years with chronic fatigue of some sort, which was if not caused then certainly exacerbated by my second bout of COV...
Dear germs colleagues,
I acknowledge receipt of your interminable diatribe letter. As your Supreme Plenipotentiary I am of course conscious of the anxiety that these entirely indispensable exterminations regrettable redundancies may be causing you. I and the rest of the senior management team will do everything in our power to get you to stop whining reassure you so yo...
In the good old days before GenAI, anxieties about student plagiarism sometimes focused on essay mills, where one could buy bespoke essays on whatever topic was needed, complete with references and bibliography, TOTALLY UNDETECTABLE by plagiarism software (though obviously that’s not an issue as they were For Research Purposes Only) because they would be unique and unplagiari...
I’ve never been convinced by the ‘seven stages of grief’ thing, even after they’ve come up with assorted workarounds and cheats to deal with the lack of empirical evidence to support the model as originally proposed (you now don’t have to go through the stages in order, apparently, you can move backwards and forwards between them, sometimes touching on them only briefly – how...