James T. Chlup

Aberdeen on Sunday. Mary, Queen of Scots on telly while having haggis pakoras and an IRN BRU for lunch.

Another research leave achievement: learning to make fresh Scottish porridge.

And so a successful week of library work, a museum visit, and writing in Cambridge has come to an end. Time to get back home to Aberdeen.

Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.

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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

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For the first time (as far as I can remember), I have done some Boxing Day shopping: I have ordered the new Loeb of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum.

Happy Christmas to you and yours! (I have really enjoyed your posts this past year).

We have some new ornaments this year from our travels: Dùn Èideann (Edinburgh), Nürnberg, Salzburg, and of course my other home town, Obar Dheathain (Aberdeen).

Fröhliche Weihnacht überall.

I am working at the Institute for Classical Studies library in London this week. They have a Christmas tree made of Loebs!

A Currywurst and a beer in München. Sehr gut.

Nürnberg Weihnachtsmarkt. Der Glühwein war schön.

This is either a late breakfast or an early lunch. Affa fine day in Edina.

On holiday this week in Norway. Today I am in Bergen. Shortly after this pic I treated myself to a beer and pickled herring.

Sitting on a rock in the middle of the River Deveron, Huntly, Aberdeenshire

Inbhir Nis.

Because drinking a beer at 11 in the morning with a beautiful view of the Austrian countryside is a thing.

One has to start off the day in Wien in the right way.

The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.

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It is a pretty good day when you are writing about ancient military manuals and you can cite Aristophanes' Frogs.

The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today | CBC Radio For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if t...

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Aberdeen in summer: a still life.

A good afternoon for walk through Ferryhill and Duthie Park.

My first day of Administrative Leave. Some light writing on a grey day with Wimbledon on the telly. Result.

Aberdeen beach on a lovely day.

My administrative leave relocation to Aberdeen is now complete.

They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?

And here we go. Winnipeg-Toronto-Chicago-London-Glasgow-Dundee-Aberdeen.

Is AI dulling critical-thinking skills? As tech companies court students, educators weigh the risks Artificial intelligence is the latest technology stoking fears of human decline. Early studies stoke doubt about whether the fear is warranted

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