Links

Here are some curiosities we’ve found around the Internet this week:

• The Paideia Institute has begun two new blogs aimed at intermediate Latin and Greek readers.  They also have a Chrome app extension that allows you to look-up the definition of any Latin or Greek word you find on a website.
• Forbes has an article about Tim O’Reilly, a Harvard-educated classics major who writes a series of books on programming and other technical subjects.
• The National Latin Exam’s “Forum Romanum” faux newscast videos are now available for free on YouTube.
• Ever wonder about the story behind Lorem Ipsum and how it became the default typeset text?  The website OpenCulture has the answer!
• The British School at Rome‘s chef recently cooked an Apicius-inspired meal, and some of the lovely pictures are shared on its blog.

Neat infographic showing the connection between the debasement of ancient currency and the fall of the Roman Empire.
Did you know there was a mini-ice-age in the 6th and 7th centuries?
Learning second languages can delay aging of the brain.
Atheism is as natural to humans as religion (so says history.)
Another fantastic Eidolon article, this time using a Socratic dialogue to evaluate what it takes to be a leader.
Ancient Greek manuscripts reveal ancient Roman “textbooks.”
Martin Luther King Jr. in dialogue with the ancient Greeks.

e more nostro sunt quaerendi situs interretiales ut scintillas quasdam, quippe quae nostrum intersint et speremus vestrum quoque interfore, accurate vobis conferamus.  inter haec sunt…

•  liber coloribus carens, imaginibus mediaevis fetus, et a Bibliotheca Bodleiana editus.
• “Nondum Arabes Sereque rogant – Classics Looks East.” (Society for Classical Studies)
• Novus Ludus iam paratur qui ad respublicas Graecas regendas pertinet.
• situs Atlas Obscura appellatus nobis vias Latinas demonstrat.
• nugae quoque de summo harpasti Americani certamine modo vel stylo Herodoti scriptae.