random observations

I'm neither suggesting nor implying anything about either field, but tonight I realized something really freaking obvious about two of my favorite research interests — ghost hunting and archeology. Which is to say — they're not terribly different.

I was watching that new PBS show "Time Team America" and it dawned on me that both ghost-hunting and archeology rely heavily on (a). grueling, tedious, frequently unrewarding legwork, and (b). (these days) magnetic- and electric-field tech — which sca