PART ONE: ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY I was looking at Celtic armor work tonight: Parade Helmet 350BC, Gold Torque 400BC, Waterloo Helmet 100BC (would originally have been golden w. red glass studs) and I remembered a conversation with a colleague last year or so on ancient machinery and ship sizes. Here are a few of those items: The Nemi Ships,  The Antikythera Mechanism, Hero's steam and wind … [Read more...]

Those for whom education consists of conversance in other people's ideas have missed the point that that familiarity is merely a jumping off place not an end goal. Education, rightly, cannot be a hobby - that's trivial pursuit. Education delivers tools for developing something new, something with one's own brand on it, in the world, not in an academic ghetto. What widely passes for education, … [Read more...]