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Straw poll: how many people here have heard of Salvador Allende and/or Augusto Pinochet? And what do you associate with either name?

I missed this. Pinochet, yes. Allende, no. I've never learnt any South American history. Although I read some of its archaeology :beard:

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around

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Allende was the guy Pinochet deposed.

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Zoedotdot

OP

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Original post by Leipzig

Defo quoting this in my exam tomorrow :P

Seriously though, it's a fine overview although YOU FORGOT YELSIN!

I didn't, I just left him out because I couldn't think of anything interesting to say about him and had to get back to essay in Russian!

I'm pretty sure if you just wrote that out as an answer to an essay question you'd get a first :p:

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Craghyrax

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Original post by around

Allende was the guy Pinochet deposed.

University Challenge contenders ought to be excluded from the straw poll for skewing the results :colonhash:

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around

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Original post by Craghyrax

University Challenge contenders ought to be excluded from the straw poll for skewing the results :colonhash:

to be fair, i'd usually leave the historical questions to 'other members' of the team.

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Craghyrax

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Argh

I've just discovered that my supervisors have picked holes in lots of my draft chapter. Its due on Wednesday, but I'm going to have to put loads of work in.
It was a fairly last minute, all night affair :o:

But I still hoped they'd be good. Nobody likes to read 'well this is a good start'...

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Leipzig

Original post by Zoedotdot

I didn't, I just left him out because I couldn't think of anything interesting to say about him and had to get back to essay in Russian!

I'm pretty sure if you just wrote that out as an answer to an essay question you'd get a first :p:

What about 'he's a bad mofo who stands on top of tanks'? :cool:

That's a reference to the 1991 attempted military coup in Russia, in case any non-specialists are reading...

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harr

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Original post by Slumpy

Nah, needs raven. Would extended access work? I must have my password for that around somewhere...

Don't know. I got Dystopia to send me the files. (Which are on the history of maths if that isn't clear.)

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Slumpy

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Original post by harr

Don't know. I got Dystopia to send me the files. (Which are on the history of maths if that isn't clear.)

I had no idea what they were, beyond it being on dpmms :p:

Sendy?

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harr

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Original post by Slumpy

I had no idea what they were, beyond it being on dpmms :p:

Sendy?

Sure. Do you want to pm me your email address?

They're basically lecture notes for the first fifteenish lectures of the History of Maths course, though I can't say that the lectures that I attended matched them very closely. I found them quite interesting.

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Slumpy

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Original post by harr

Sure. Do you want to pm me your email address?

They're basically lecture notes for the first fifteenish lectures of the History of Maths course, though I can't say that the lectures that I attended matched them very closely. I found them quite interesting.

Sure, cheers. I never ended up going to the HoM lectures, but always meant to, and don't really know as much about the history of maths as I'd like!

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Chess Piece Face

Original post by Craghyrax

I now find History very boring.

There was a good article on Huffington Post UK recently that might reinvigorate your interest in history!

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Craghyrax

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Original post by Chess Piece Face

There was a good article on Huffington Post UK recently that might reinvigorate your interest in history!

Though you say so yourself :wink:

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Craghyrax

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Original post by Chess Piece Face

There was a good article on Huffington Post UK recently that might reinvigorate your interest in history!

Well that was a very enjoyable read, but unfortunately it impressed on me the usefulness and significance of new media, rather than enticing me towards History.

I love E. P. Thompson, by the way. I read his analysis of the impact of the clock on our perception of time as part of my Social Anthropology course in first year.
E. P. Thompson and you may be glad to hear that my favourite sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, is very vocal about the necessity of restoring chronology into our analysis of human praxis. For a short and accessible read, see the first paragraph introducing his essay on forms of capital: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm :smile:

So I don't think that all sociology tries to stop the clock in order to examine social behaviour. Modern social scientists are very keen on narrative, and on trying to capture lived experience in as rich and faithful a manner as possible. Good sociology doesn't leave it at that, though, but combines that with critical analysis.

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It could be lupus

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Does anyone know when you lose access to raven websites after you graduate? I want to know if I should start downloading notes of camtools or not (I want to have digital copies of my notes as they may be useful later)

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Craghyrax

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Original post by It could be lupus

Does anyone know when you lose access to raven websites after you graduate? I want to know if I should start downloading notes of camtools or not (I want to have digital copies of my notes as they may be useful later)

No fixed figure. I think they do it in batches because everyone I know had different experiences. Mine carried on for a few months after graduating.

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It could be lupus

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Original post by Craghyrax

No fixed figure. I think they do it in batches because everyone I know had different experiences. Mine carried on for a few months after graduating.

PRSOM. Thanks, I'll just try and download them after my exams then to make sure. Also, any thoughts on the @cantab.net email address? I'm wondering if I should bother signing up for it...

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Chess Piece Face

Original post by Craghyrax

I love E. P. Thompson, by the way. I read his analysis of the impact of the clock on our perception of time as part of my Social Anthropology course in first year.
E. P. Thompson and you may be glad to hear that my favourite sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, is very vocal about the necessity of restoring chronology into our analysis of human praxis. For a short and accessible read, see the first paragraph introducing his essay on forms of capital: http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm :smile:

So I don't think that all sociology tries to stop the clock in order to examine social behaviour.

Thanks for this. Though I'm not sure it's everyone's idea of an accessible read :tongue:

Original post by It could be lupus

PRSOM. Thanks, I'll just try and download them after my exams then to make sure. Also, any thoughts on the @cantab.net email address? I'm wondering if I should bother signing up for it...

I recommend signing up. Although the layout is unsightly, I find it reliable, and you can migrate your inbox into it if you want to save all your old Hermes emails. I use it mainly for mailing lists, subscriptions and competitions, in contrast to my primary email address which I use for the stuff I'm excited to receive.

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It could be lupus

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Original post by Chess Piece Face

I recommend signing up. Although the layout is unsightly, I find it reliable, and you can migrate your inbox into it if you want to save all your old Hermes emails. I use it mainly for mailing lists, subscriptions and competitions, in contrast to my primary email address which I use for the stuff I'm excited to receive.

Thanks for the advice. Now to figure out if I want @cantab.net or @trin.cantab.net :tongue:

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Original post by It could be lupus

PRSOM. Thanks, I'll just try and download them after my exams then to make sure. Also, any thoughts on the @cantab.net email address? I'm wondering if I should bother signing up for it...

It's free so why not? Although it's admittedly more useful if you sign up to it earlier and start transitioning things over to using that address rather than your @cam one. I use it because it's not provider-specific so when some kind of google-run email service comes along to replace hotmail I can switch it without changing my email address.

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