U.S. IOOS Testbed comparisons: hydrodynamics and hypoxia

Symposium Peregrinum XI, 2024

Here are the abstracts for the 2024 Symposium Peregrinum XI

Plavinski M. Radziwill Chronicle miniatures as a source of ancient weapons history: an introduction, 2013

The article is devoted to the miniatures of Radziwill Chronicle as a source of ancient weapons history. It is evident that in their final form miniatures do not reflect the real weapons and armor of ancient times. All the detailed sam-ples of the weapons display the military technic realities of the time of the manu-script itself — the end of the 15th century or an earlier period. One can assume that these realities were typical for the area of active contacts between the Western and Eastern European military-technical traditions. This area was, first of all, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, especially its «Rusian» lands, and to some extent the territory of Novgorod and Pskov. It is interesting, that the artists left untouched («unedit-ed») standard armament of most soldiers, going back to the old Rusian models, and through them to the Byzantine prototypes. And that could mean that such images were not strongly discordant with the military-technical realities of the era of the creation of the manuscript.

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2024

The following is a talk I gave at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday this week. I’m discuss the failure of the attempts to turn every country into a European-style nation-state, and I look for alternatives that might work better. I propose three models – an imperial, a nomadic and a network model. All three are inspired by the way politics, including international politics, worked before European colonialism. Since so many nation-states failed, it’s time to try something new, or rather, it’s time to try something old.

This is a good read. Another reason to conclude this nation's courts have become the enemy of this nation's People. When will do something about it?

Intellectual Today, Vol. 1, No. 1, Pages-34-37.