Today (by the time this is published) I start the next of the MOOCs I’ve signed up for on Future Learn. This one is about the Roman port Portus (at Rome) and I think about archaeology in general as well. And despite saying I wasn’t going to overlap courses I’ve also signed up for one starting on 2 June about literature of the English country house – the two courses together are supposed to take about as much time per week as the Shakespeare MOOC I just finished, so hopefully that should be OK. I can always abandon one if not 🙂
J found a phone app that’s just a little like magic – Word Lens Translator translates 6 different languages to & from English on the fly, using the phone camera. So you hold your phone up to a menu or a sign and see an English translation. All languages are free at the moment.
TV I’m recording this week:
- The Crusades – 3 part series about the Crusades.
- How the Wild West Was Won with Ray Mears – three part series about the wilderness of America and how it shaped the Wild West story.
- Tropic of Cancer – 6 part series of Simon Reeve travelling around the world along the Tropic of Cancer.