{"id":353,"date":"2014-01-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/2013-roundup-everything-else\/"},"modified":"2014-01-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:00:00","slug":"2013-roundup-everything-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/01\/29\/2013-roundup-everything-else\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 Roundup: Everything Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the final part of my roundup of 2013 blog posts &#8211; I&#8217;ve managed to get it all done before January is over, which feels like a victory of sorts \ud83d\ude42  There are a few categories on the sidebar that aren&#8217;t covered here.  Admin is mostly indexes for each month, rather dull and somewhat recursive to index the indexes, so I haven&#8217;t.  The others had no posts last year, some of which are rather surprising, some of which are not.  I&#8217;ve played a lot of computer games over the last year, but apparently not written about anything &#8211; I should change that this year.  We&#8217;ve not done any proper long walks with geocaching for ages, so that category is also empty.  I also haven&#8217;t read any papers, nor have I done anything that fits in the Sport category (which exists to hold the photos of the Tour of Britain that I took in 2012 (<a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/tour-britain-cycling-2012\">post<\/a>).  And Whimsy is a new category this year for a piece of creative writing for the Shakespeare course I&#8217;m doing on Future Learn.<\/p>\n<h3>Films<\/h3>\n<p>As you can tell, I don&#8217;t really see many films.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/18\/indiana-jones-and-last-crusade\">Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/star-trek-darkness\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Radio<\/h3>\n<p>Most Sunday mornings we listen to a radio programme while we eat breakfast, most of these are from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qykl\">In Our Time<\/a> series.  This covers a wide range of topics, and each episode has 3 experts in the field that&#8217;s being discussed sharing lay-person level explanations of the current state of knowledge in the field.  They&#8217;re pretty much always fascinating.  We&#8217;ve also listened to a couple of series about current affairs in the Middle East, which provide a historical perspective for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I can pick a favourite &#8211; I&#8217;ve just spent a while looking at the list of titles and for pretty much all of them I&#8217;ve thought &#8220;oh, that one was really good&#8221;.  An interesting note is that my write up of the one about Japan&#8217;s Sakoku period got picked up by a site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omg-facts.com\/\">OMG Facts<\/a> so I think it&#8217;s been the most read post on my blog.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/our-time-absolute-zero\">Absolute Zero<\/a>. In Our Time episode about absolute zero, both what it is and the history of the scientists trying to achieve it in the laboratory.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/our-time-amazons\">The Amazons<\/a>. In Our Time episode about the Amazons of Greek myth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/05\/our-time-bertrand-russell\">Bertrand Russell<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the life &#038; work of Bertrand Russell.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/our-time-borgias\">The Borgias<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the Borgia family in Renaissance Italy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/our-time-book-common-prayer\">The Book of Common Prayer<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the history &#038; contents of the Book of Common Prayer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/our-time-comets\">Comets<\/a>. In Our Time episode about comets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/11\/28\/our-time-corn-laws\">The Corn Laws<\/a>. In Our Time episode about the Corn Laws of the early 19th Century.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/19\/our-time-crystallography\">Crystallography<\/a>. In Our Time episode about x-ray crystallography.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/our-time-cult-mithras\">The Cult of Mithras<\/a>. In Our Time episode about the Roman cult of Mithras.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/our-time-epicureanism\">Epicureanism<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the philosophy of Epicurus.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/our-time-exoplanets\">Exoplanets<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about planets in other solar systems to our own.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/our-time-galen\">Galen<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Galen, the 2nd Century AD Greek physician.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/our-time-gnosticism\">Gnosticism<\/a>. In Our Time episode about Gnosticism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/our-time-ice-ages\">Ice Ages<\/a>. In Our Time episode about ice ages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/our-time-icelandic-sagas\">Icelandic Sagas<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Icelandic Sagas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/our-time-japans-sakoku-period\">Japan&#8217;s Sakoku Period<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the period of Japan&#8217;s history where it pursued a policy of isolation from the rest of the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/our-time-mamluks\">The Mamluks<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the Mamluks, who were a slave army who ruled Egypt between the 13th &#038; 16th Centuries AD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/making-modern-arab-world-episode-1\">The Making of the Modern Arab World<\/a>.  Four part Radio 4 series about the modern history of the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/03\/05\/our-time-le-morte-darthur\">Le Morte d&#8217;Arthur<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Malory&#8217;s version of the Arthurian legend.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/our-time-pascal\">Pascal<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the life &#038; work of Blaise Pascal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/our-time-pitt-rivers\">Pitt-Rivers<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, the man whose collection forms the basis of the Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/our-time-putney-debates\">The Putney Debates<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the context of &#038; discussions in the Putney Debates (held in 1647 after the end of the first part of the Civil Wars).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/08\/08\/our-time-queen-zenobia\">Queen Zenobia<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the Palmyran Queen who rebelled against Rome &#038; founded a short-lived empire in the Middle East around 270AD.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/16\/our-time-relativity\">Relativity<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Einstein&#8217;s theories of relativity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/04\/02\/our-time-romulus-and-remus\">Romulus and Remus<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about Rome&#8217;s founding myth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/01\/29\/our-time-shahnameh-ferdowsi\">Shahnameh of Ferdowsi<\/a>. In Our Time episode about the epic Persian poem the Shahnameh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/our-time-south-sea-bubble\">South Sea Bubble<\/a>. In Our Time episode about the South Sea Bubble.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/08\/13\/turkey-new-ottomans\">Turkey: The New Ottomans<\/a>.  A three part series putting modern Turkey in a historical context, and looking at its relationships with the Arab World &#038; the West.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/01\/14\/our-time-upanishads\">The Upanishads<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about one of the groups of sacred texts of the Hindu religion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/04\/09\/our-time-war-1812\">The War of 1812<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the war between Britain &#038; the US which started in 1812.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/our-time-water\">Water<\/a>.  In Our Time episode about the chemical nature of water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Reflections<\/h3>\n<p>Reflections is the category where I put articles that aren&#8217;t just about one thing, but are instead me reflecting on a group of posts or things.  In 2013 that only includes the two posts I wrote about the books I read while I was reading those filed on my bookshelf under A.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/08\/filed-under\">Filed Under A<\/a> &#8211; stats &#038; a retrospective on the books I&#8217;ve read so far as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/tags\/read-all-fiction\">Read All the Fiction<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/other-things-i-read-while-reading\">Other Things I Read While Reading the As<\/a> &#8211; stats &#038; a retrospective on the fiction I read during the same time period as the books filed under A on my bookshelf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Talks<\/h3>\n<p>Most of the talks we go to are at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.essexegyptology.com\/about-us\/\">Essex Egyptology Group<\/a> meetings, so there is a strong Egyptian flavour to this section.  There are also a couple of trips organised by the EEG, and one talk from a British Museum Members&#8217; Open Evening (which is the sole non-Egyptian one here).  I think my absolute favourite was Diane Johnson&#8217;s talk about meteoric iron in Ancient Egypt because it was a subject I knew nothing about before and the electron microscopy of the iron beads was particularly interesting.  But they were all interesting talks.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/11\/25\/arts-war-assyrian-narrative-art-nigel-tallis-talk-british-museum-members-open\">&#8220;The Arts of War: Assyrian Narrative Art&#8221; Nigel Tallis<\/a>.  Talk at the British Museum Members&#8217; Open Evening in November 2013.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/augusts-eeg-meeting\">August EEG Meeting<\/a>.  The format this month was different &#8211; 4 short talks from members (including me).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/10\/02\/eeg-trip-ees\">EEG Trip to the EES<\/a>. A group of us from the EEG visited the London office of the EES to see their archives.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/eeg-trip-petrie-museum\">EEG Visit to the Petrie Museum<\/a>.  A trip to the Petrie Museum by members of the EEG where we were given a tour &#038; a talk by Wolfram Grajetzki about Lahun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/egypts-so-called-first-intermediate-period-and-tomb-ankhtifi-glenn-godenho-eeg\">&#8220;Egypt&#8217;s So-Called First Intermediate Period and the Tomb of Ankhtifi&#8221; Glenn Godenho<\/a>.  Talk given at the EEG meeting in March, about the tomb of Ankhtifi &#038; what it tells us about the First Intermediate Period.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/farming-agriculture-nile-valley-victor-blunden-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Farming &#038; Agriculture in the Nile Valley&#8221; Victor Blunden<\/a>.  Talk at the EEG meeting in April, about the farming methods of the ancient Egyptians.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/10\/10\/freemasonry-and-ancient-egypt-cathie-bryan-eeg-talk\">&#8220;Freemasonry and Ancient Egypt&#8221; Cathie Bryan<\/a>.  Talk at the EEG meeting in October, about the influences of (perceived) Egyptian culture on Freemasonry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/12\/03\/lion-ancient-egypt-elite-phenomenon-lyn-stagg-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;The Lion in Ancient Egypt: An Elite Phenomenon?&#8221; Lyn Stagg<\/a>.  Talk at the December EEG meeting, about lion symbolism &#038; iconography in pre-dynastic and early dynastic Egypt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/02\/07\/man-cretan-cloak-jds-pendlebury-amarna-rosalind-janssen-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Man in a Cretan Cloak: JDS Pendlebury at Amarna&#8221; Rosalind Janssen<\/a>.  Talk given at the EEG meeting in February, about the life &#038; death of the archaeologist J. D. S. Pendlebury.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/07\/12\/marriage-ancient-egypt-lucia-gahlin-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Marriage in Ancient Egypt&#8221; Lucia Gahlin<\/a>.  Talk at the EEG meeting in July, about marriage in Ancient Egypt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/metorites-ancient-egypt-diane-johnson-eeg-talk\">&#8220;Meteorites in Ancient Egypt&#8221; Diane Johnson<\/a>.  Talk given by Diane Johnson at the EEG meeting in September about her work on meteoric iron in Ancient Egyptian objects.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/monuments-amun-ra-king-gods-temples-thebes-george-hart-eeg-meeting-talk\">&#8220;Monuments to Amun-Ra &#8216;King of the Gods&#8217;: The Temples of Thebes&#8221; George Hart<\/a>.  Talk given by George Hart at the June meeting of the EEG, about Amun-Ra and the various temples in the Theban region.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2013\/05\/15\/mummies-asps-and-far-too-much-eye-make-ancient-egypt-cinema-john-j-johnston-eeg\">&#8220;Mummies, Asps and Far Too Much Eye Make-up: Ancient Egypt in the Cinema&#8221; John J. 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