Some Things For Which I'm Thankful ...

There will, as usual, be some serious gratitude around our Thanksgiving table this year. Lest they be lost in the mention of other things there, here are some other things for which I'm grateful:

Renée Friedman,"Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis," Archaeology, 6 November, weighs the evidence for and the dating of Solanum virus outbreaks in pre-dynastic Egypt. Hat tip.

Maria Cristina Valsecchi,"Sacred Cave of Rome's Founders Discovered, Archeologis," National Geographic News, 26 January/20 November, covers a major archaeological find in Rome. Here's the photograph of its remarkable dome.

Michael Kimmelman,"Business (Some Unfinished) From Titian, 1500s C.E.O.," NYT, 22 November, reviews"Late Titian and the Sensuality of Painting," an exhibit at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Tim Burke's"History 88 The Social History of Consumption Spring 2008," Easily Distracted, 21 November, is the syllabus for a course I'd love to take.

All Gilbert & Sullivan and many parodies thereof. Here's a good one:

Hat tip and to the Neuroscience Education Institute's Stephen M. Stahl, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at UC, San Diego, and the author of Essential Psychopharmacology.