{"id":5724,"date":"2017-10-02T10:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2017-10-02T10:10:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T14:10:12","slug":"weekly-round-up-10-2-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/10\/02\/weekly-round-up-10-2-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 10-2-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! We hope you had a fruitful fall weekend and are ready for another week of classes. Here is another installment of Core-related news and articles to send you on your way.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BU researchers, headed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/faculty\/dkelemen\/\">Prof. Deborah Kelemen<\/a>, developed a children&#8217;s book about natural selection entitled <em>How the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses<\/em>. Directed towards children aged 5 to 8, the book follows the evolution of fictional creatures called &#8220;piloses&#8221; who adapt to a changing environment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/teaching-natural-selection\/\">Read an interview with Prof. Kelemen over on BU Today.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Good news: We found a new Core-related Twitter account to follow. It&#8217;s called @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitsofpluto\">bitsofpluto<\/a>, and it is a bot that posts &#8220;a different bit of Pluto every six hours.&#8221; Finally, Plutogets the credit it deserves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A bit of Pluto <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pcyr5nDLm1\">pic.twitter.com\/pcyr5nDLm1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bits of Pluto (@bitsofpluto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitsofpluto\/status\/914776486594383872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What can we learn from ancient Greek myths? Nothing &#8220;particularly useful [and] direct,&#8221; according to author Mary Beard, who takes on Emily Katz Anhalt&#8217;s new publication <em>Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths<\/em>. The book, she says, is too oversimplified (with a message that it is &#8220;better to talk about things than fight&#8221;). &#8220;Do we want to live in a world in which we dont get furious at slavery, racism, or any number of other global injustices or even at some of the dreadful truths of the human condition?&#8221; Beard asks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pappaspost.com\/violent-times-need-ancient-greek-myths\/\">Read the full review here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Ever, Jane,<\/em> is the Jane Austen RPG we&#8217;ve all been waiting for. A video game by Judy L. Tyrer (formerly of Linden Labs, producer of the game <em>Second Life<\/em>), it is basically an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/sep\/28\/ever-jane-reader-i-clicked-on-him-i-test-drive-the-virtual-jane-austen-role-playing-game\">&#8220;Austenified&#8221; fantasy game<\/a> revolving around quests and role play. The article itself is worth a read, even if the game is perhaps&#8230; not up to snuff. Here is an excerpt:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>And so Flopsy [McCanada, the author&#8217;s player character] wanders Tyrehampton in search of love, gliding down its streets, passing an ivy-covered church and sheep stacked on top of each another the Austen livestock algorithm clearly has some glitches to iron out.<\/p>\n<p>Flopsy eventually meets Master Brimley outside the sheep pen on the village green. As a commoner, Ladys Magazine reminds me, he isnt someone a woman of my standing would normally talk to. But in the chat window I write: Good day, Shepherd Brimley! He has beautiful square blue eyes, like a polygonal Colin Firth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>Just for fun:<\/strong> <\/strong>An oldie but goodie from the late <em>Toast<\/em>. Peruse a compilation of &#8220;portraits of Lord Byron, In Order of Lord Byron-ness.&#8221; And boy, <a href=\"http:\/\/the-toast.net\/2016\/04\/19\/portraits-of-lord-byron-in-order-of-lord-byron-ness\/\">is Lord Byron Lord Byron-y<\/a>. (Warning: Contains some&#8230; questionable language that we&#8217;re sure Core scholars can handle. Anything for Byron.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/17rg073sukbm1lmjk9jrehb643.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/byron8.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"312\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Hes wearing like eighteen ascots and theyre all flowing in a tempest, plenty of Byron here.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now! See you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, scholars! We hope you had a fruitful fall weekend and are ready for another week of classes. 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