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In this inaugural episode Aris and Angus talk to Sybille Lammes, Leiden’s ‘Professor at Play’ about their Past at Play Lab.
News of the science of the past:
- The Streaming the Past Project and the epic things past-pro Twitch streamers Sophie, Nina, and Eva have been up to : https://streamingthepast.com/
- New Dates for an Old (Cerne) Giant: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/may/12/cerne-giant-in-dorset-dates-from-anglo-saxon-times-analysis-suggests
- Computers vs. Archaeologists, who sorts pottery the fastest?: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000455
- Barbarians (BoJo and his neo-liberal university board cronies) are threatening Sheffield’s Archaeology Department: https://www.change.org/p/university-of-sheffield-save-sheffield-s-archaeology-department
Top of the Past Picks:
- Aris raves about the upcoming Dune movie and explains how this IP is a perfect dust storm of past, present, and sci-fi future: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419/
- Angus really recommends the Castlevania Anime for its transmedia and transhistorical Easter Eggs: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6517102/
- Sybille points our attention to a playful way to get people to take their coronavirus vaccines in some American states: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/27/california-covid-19-vaccine-lottery
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