Amazing how much she has done and posted about this summer in Palenque.
Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries of 2007
Via Mike Ruggeri on the Aztlan list
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A Google Map of the Green Buildings built by Mary Spink in the Lower East Side, New York City. Click the bright green placemarkers for address and info on the buildings, click the big square for the energy efficient design principles.
ABC News: Fit for an Aztec King? Experts Study Tomb
Duh!
Discovery Channel :: News :: Stone Age Humans Often Squatted
Unusual and important application of biomimicry.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Error-Correcting Nanomaterials
It's happening. A breakthrough in manufacturing nanotube materials with unusual properties and many applications.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Ribbons, Sheets and the Nanofuture
Among other reasons, because 7-10% of all greenhouse gas emissions come from concrete (portland cement) manufacture. If my Dad were around, I'd ask him.
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Reinventing Concrete
Leaving in an hour to drive back to the city for a day or so. Back to my insanely crowded, hip, noisy neighborhood.
January 1, 2004 was also the first day of a Tzolkin in the Maya calendar, a coincidence which only happens once in thousands of years. Good story on the Maya calendar, and the importance of both 2004 and 2012.
Tabasco Hoy || Coinciden calendarios gregoriano y maya
The current debate over the future of nanotechnology, between two leading thinkers in the field.
C&EN: COVER STORY - NANOTECHNOLOGY
Demarest and Fahsen hit the front page. Again.
New York Times
Ancient Maya Altar Retaken From Looters in Guatemala
New Scientist
New Scientist - Dramatic rescue snatches back Mayan altar
And a little more detail and bluster in The Tennessean
A tale of archaeology, looting and a savvy Vanderbilt professor - Thursday, 10/30/03
Though he said he loves the humanitarian work, Demarest hopes Vanderbilt School of Medicine will help run the 30 medical clinics he's been directing so he can do a little more digging.
''It's great being Mother Teresa,'' he said, ''but I'm supposed to be Indiana Jones.''
A review of specialty salts, featuring the lttle bundles sold in the market in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas.
Journal Gazette | 09/24/2003 | Wave of flavor
Mexican Benequenes - At the bottom of the Rio Salinas gorge are the salinas of Ixtapa: a small brine well, more than 2,000 years old, and seven long thatched cocinas. Inside, the brine is "cooked" in iron pots set atop woodburning adobe ovens.
As the salt forms, it is packed into straw matting tubes to form loaves of salt, most available daily in the market at San Cristobal de las Casas. Almost a powder, benequenes (loaves) partner best with french fries, tortilla chips or Spanish salted almonds.
Modern cultural icons as pre-columbian sculptures.
(via Boing Boing)
Good story in Reuters by Lizzie Fullerton, on the amber miners in Simojovel:
Once-Precious Amber Scarcely Buys Bread in Mexico
A Maya farmer has been arrested for moving stones from a ruin into a pile on his property.
Reuters AlertNet - Pile of rocks sends Mexican Indian to prison
Again, Joel Skidmore at Mesoweb has it. An online chart of Maya dates in a timeline color-coded by city: Palenque, Calakmul, Tikal, Tonina, and Yaxchilan.