Interesting Links for 09-05-2018
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andrewducker- The world's oldest recorded music is 3,400 years old, and from Syria
- (tags: syria music history )
- New evidence that infants track others' mental states
- (tags: children empathy psychology )
- Anyone know of Paris Orly airport is still running Windows 3.1
- (tags: Windows airport france OhForFucksSake )
- Don't offer your child help with homework, offer them time to do it in
- (tags: school children parenting )
- British government warned not to back EU palm oil ban so it can keep selling arms to Malaysia
- (tags: weaponry business environment government UK Malaysia )
- The Ocado robot swarms that pack your shopping
- (tags: robots shopping )
- EU tells Trump he doesn’t have the power to unilaterally scrap the Iran nuclear deal
- (tags: Iran Europe usa )
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Date: 2018-05-09 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2018-05-09 03:23 pm (UTC)Ha! Absolutely not surprised. My school ran on Win XP until last year. Meanwhile our government massively invested in tablets for middle schoolers, which will be totally obsolete in 2/3 years and cannot be used by teachers efficiently because they need to get charged between classes and it's only going to get worse (let's not even talk about the temperature of the room our IT equipment is in...).
What is amazing is that nobody managed to hack such an old system.
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Date: 2018-05-12 07:32 am (UTC)I went to a presentation last year on reconstructing Ancient Greek music, specifically for the aulos or double flute, by a chap called Barnaby Brown who is one of the aulos players in this clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hOK7bU0S1Y
As I'm not a musician I had been under the impression that Ancient Greek flutes sounded like modern ones, ie rather breathy and delicate. But the auloi had reeds and sounded much more like bagpipes. I had always been a bit confused about how the Greeks used flute music to keep the time on triremes, but this makes a lot more sense. I now have images of massed choirs and aulos players marching up to the Acropolis on festival days.