Friday Quick Hits and Varia

On Friday, I wrote a post and somehow it vanished. I think I accidentally restarted my laptop before I had saved the post. Anyway, it was a gaggle of little quick hits and varia and it seems better late than never: Corinth Canal Bridges. Open Access: Valeria Vitale and Gabriel Bodard eds.,Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies (2026) AI Makes a Mathematician sad. Manuscripts The hidden lives of manuscripts Mythwashing and the Two Meanings of Mystery in Manuscript Discovery Stories From the Blogs: Gaze Detection and Ancient Slavery. Even the best need a break What I’m reading, short book edition: Kyle Conway, At Home in the Petromodern Paradox: Landscape and Community in the Bakken Boom (2026). James C. Scott, In Praise of Floods: The Untamed River and the Life it Brings (2025). Meredith Reifschneider, The Archaeology of American Medicine and Healthcare (2025). James Marriott, The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society (2026) Some fall photos…