Does REAL History and Science Face a FIGHT for the Truth in 2025?
17– WB 19th Nov 2024
Welcome to Watching Brief. As the name implies, each week Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over news stories, topical media and recent archaeological discoveries, and discuss and debate what they find.
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0:00 Introduction
0:41 Timely Acts of Remembrance
5:44 UCL Scrap Public Archaeology MA
13:06 Some are OK with Loss of Uni Depts
16:27 UCL Press Office Q & As
20:31 US Election & Public Archaeology Communication
29:31 Archaeology is Automatically Against Disinformation
31:51 We NEED an Answer to Post-Modernism
35:48 The Plan to Dismantle Institutions
42:11 Supporting Friends and a Shared, Objective, Reality
49:33 Center for Countering Digital Hate Stats
52:39 Conclusion
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Link of the Week:
Everything you need to know about Remembrance Day:
https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-remembrance-day/
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Links:
Starmer becomes first British leader since Churchill to attend Armistice Day ceremony in France:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/starmer-armistice-day-paris/
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UCL Institute of Archaeology:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology
Program Information for Public Archaeology MA (2025):
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/graduate/taught-degrees/public-archaeology-ma
Fears for the future of Lampeter's university campus:
https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/education/fears-for-the-future-of-lampeters-university-campus-738200
Revealed: The UK universities scrapping arts and humanities degrees now or next year:
https://thetab.com/2024/11/06/revealed-the-uk-universities-scrapping-arts-and-humanities-degrees-now-or-next-year
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How Elon Musk's political posts amass more views than all U.S. political campaign ads on X's disclosure dataset:
https://counterhate.com/research/musk-political-posts-x/
Post-processual archaeology – Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-processual_archaeology
Judge dismisses ‘vapid’ Elon Musk lawsuit against group that cataloged racist content on X:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/mar/25/elon-musk-hate-speech-lawsuit
Pentagon officials discussing how to respond if Trump issues controversial orders:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/08/politics/pentagon-officials-discussing-trump/index.html