http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Tag: OT - Recent Topics en Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:48:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20326#post-336109 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:08:14 +0000 unhurt 336109@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maps-myths-and-other-misrepresentations-tickets-115331509650" rel="nofollow">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maps-myths-and-other-misrepresentations-tickets-115331509650</a><br /> NLS, Thurs 24 September 2020 17:00 – 17:45 BST (online)</p> <p><blockquote>Not so long ago, the impressive Benchichins Mountains lay between Deeside and Angus, until their sudden obliteration in the hands of mapmakers. In this fully illustrated talk, Map Curator Chris Fleet looks at various other things on maps that might never have been really out there, as well as how maps lie, distort the truth and miss things out. How far should we trust the map, and is this a good idea?<br /> </blockquote></p> <p>(I can't "go" as I will probably be w/out wifi out west, bah!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19877#post-315093 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:52:05 +0000 unhurt 315093@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/research/archaeological-research-in-progress-2019-conference-lectures-online-now">Archaeological Research in Progress 2019 conference lectures</a> - now online, in case this is your idea of a nice evening in.</p> <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/lecture/2019-rhind-lectures-online-now/">2019 Rhind Lectures</a> are also up now - David Breeze on the long history of study &amp; interpretation of Hadrian's Wall. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19876#post-315091 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:45:05 +0000 unhurt 315091@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Free (but ticketed) event at the National Museum:</p> <p><a href="https://www.socantscot.org/event/scotland-creating-a-medieval-kingdom-2/">Creating Scotland: Assembling a Medieval Kingdom<br /> </a>October 14 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm</p> <p>"Lecture: In conversation with Hamish Torrie FSA Scot (The Glenmorangie Company), Dr Adrian Maldonado (National Museums Scotland) and Dr Heather Pulliam (University of Edinburgh)</p> <p>The medieval kingdom called Scotland was not a predestined or obvious outcome of the politics of the first millennium AD. Even in the twelfth century, Britain north of the Tweed was a patchwork of laws, languages and identities. Do the art and artefacts of the 9-12th century provide a different perspective on the formation of a feudal kingdom? This conversation event discusses the impact of ten years of the Glenmorangie Research Project at National Museums Scotland, and the unique perspective which comes from a focus on the material culture." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18419#post-268225 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 20:06:56 +0000 unhurt 268225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Distracted from what I should be doing by this: <a href="https://undark.org/article/nazis-aurochs-deextinction-mammoth/">Lutz in particular came to view de-extinction of the aurochs as crucial to National Socialism and the Nazi party’s ideology. He also saw it as integral to recreating the mythical German landscape of ancient times, when the Aryan race was pure and unthreatened.</a></p> <p>(And another book added to my (ever-growing) To-Read list: <em>Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild Things</em>) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18407#post-267882 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 20:18:34 +0000 unhurt 267882@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Either I need remedial fish gutting / filleting classes OR I need a better knife OR I need both.</p> <p>(Poor, mangled red mullet.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18378#post-266937 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 22:26:34 +0000 unhurt 266937@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>[ETA: sorry, you have to register (for free) to actually read now. This was not apparent when I was linked to it elsewhere.] [ETA2 @chdot suggests <a href="https://twitter.com/conorpope/status/931463180945149952 ">the link here</a> will work - did for me.]</p> <p>Some of you will love this. (I found it oddly satisfying and am off to look at more blob maps now.) Via friends elsewhere who are <em>professionally</em> into this sort of nerdery. </p> <p>"Here’s what we learned from ordering 213 curries at Wetherspoons"</p> <p><a href="https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/11/17/2195865/heres-what-we-learned-from-ordering-213-curries-at-wetherspoons/?ft_site=falcon&amp;desktop=true">"The picture emerging here is of obsessive menu engineering and predatory cynicism. Many pub and restaurant chains do this kind of thing a bit, but none does it with the ruthlessness of Wetherspoon, whose grand, cavernous spaces fill up each day thanks in large part to a menu that reads like several hundred carefully targeted microaggressions against the immediate community."</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18384#post-267166 Mon, 20 Nov 2017 18:17:55 +0000 unhurt 267166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://goldenharebooks.com/event/idea-canada-evening-granta-magazine/">Publication event for Granta 141: Canada. 6pm Tuesday 5th December. £3 (redeemable against a copy if you incline that way):</a></p> <p>"Our special guests will be in conversation to discuss the new issue, the history, current state and future directions of Canadian Literature including the relationship between Scottish and Canadian literature. </p> <p>Alexander MacLeod, Canadian author and contributor to Granta 141 and Professor Rob Dunbar, Chair of Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Canadian expat."</p> <p>(I was too germy for geopoetics, but this is nice and central.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18288#post-264758 Sat, 28 Oct 2017 01:01:18 +0000 unhurt 264758@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax: I agree that music can be poetry, but maybe we need a specific topic for musical links?</p> <p>My secret shameful Canadian love (SRD might understand? Or at least tolerate?): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=4426#post-46681 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:44:43 +0000 spitters 46681@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>OK I will make this tenuous link to cycling in that my chin is colder than usual given the beard got lopped off for Movember.<br /> If you don't know what it's about you can <a href="http://uk.movember.com/?home">find out</a><br /> If you want to donate <a href="http://uk.movember.com/donate/team-details/id/366374/searchTerm/Rebel+Yell">please feel free</a> (note I am putting up the link to the team not the individual)<br /> However if you do spot me and would like to donate direct to me I am aiming for a total of £80 simply for the free entry to the party, not that I am likely to make it given that I will probably be my usual caring hubbydad and stay home ;)<br /> Oh and if anyone here is doing Movember feel free to join the team if you don't have one already. Maybe we could start <strong>team CCE next year</strong>. (See, <em>another</em> link! HAH!)<br /> Not sure how inclusive it is mind, I have heard of the concept of a mo-sista as well as a mo-bro but I am not sure I want to think about it too much </p>