The Student Bay is here

March 28, 2008

A new student literature website has emerged on the Swedish Internet landscape. Student Bay (currently only in Swedish) could challenge academic publishing in the same way as Pirate Bay took on the music industry. The new site, Student Bay, has been launched this week and carries a logo almost identical to that of The Pirate Bay.

I guess the community strikes once again :) !

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A press release published (in swedish) on its site on March 26th. My attempt to translate it :P follows:

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Need a book on the fly?

October 21, 2007

Vending machines offering books for 60kr in Stockholm. No comment…


Ancient greeks as a best practice

October 12, 2007

Motivated by two posts in my friend’s Themis’ blog on Greek education (post in Greek) and on fear of failure, I just wanted to refer to a book i recently read and which I found closely related to the issues that Themis is raising. The book is titled “Who killed Homer?” by John Heath and Victor Davis Hanson and stresses out the deviation of today’s classical studies from the true ancient Greek spirit. The book was published back in 2001 but the questions raised and the examples offered can be found everywhere day.