When was the last time you took a photo of a loved one or a selfie of yourself? It is probably not too long ago! But did it cross your mind that this image could still be around in a few hundred years, telling a story about you and your life? If yes, you have […]
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on 21 April 2024. (Re)moving the dead Death is very quickly followed by movement (or re-movement) of the remains. Swedish author Knausgaard poetically describes this urge: “the way we remove bodies has never been a subject of debate; it has always been just something we have
This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on December 2020. An abandoned surgical mask on a Dublin pavement during my casual afternoon walk last summer sparked a series of questions about the tangible traces of the 2020 pandemic or, in other words, the material culture of Covid-19. As an archaeologist fascinated by past
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This snack was first posted on the Scisnack website on March 2023. Every retelling of the past consists of a story, a narrator, and an audience, and it needs a time and a place. Even if the intention is to pass on an old, known story, the narrator and the audience are bound to exist
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