Monthly Archives: February 2011

Meet the faculty

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Pat Bowne

For the convenience of readers and prospective graduate students, here are the pages from the Royal Academy’s bulletin dealing with the Demonology Department. The Royal Academy Bulletin – Demonology TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Drood by Dan Simmons

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Pat Bowne

If someone had offered me a new novel by Wilkie Collins, would I have bought it?  Well, no. But just tell me it’s about Dickens, and I’m ready to read it – which is the problem for Collins, the narrator … Continue reading →

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Students Ask: Should Brownies and Imps Grade Papers?

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Pat Bowne

Do you know whether the comments on your latest paper were really written by your prof?  Did s/he even glance at the thing?  If it was a zoomancy paper, probably not, according to a tech in the Natural Magic Museum.  … Continue reading →

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Advice From Pigeons

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Pat Bowne

The first Royal Academy of Osyth novel is now available for purchase from Double Dragon Publishers! TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

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Metadata Schemas — are they magic?

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Pat Bowne

I was surfing around Scientopia and found a discussion of metadata schemas on The Book of Trogool.  I guess if I thought about it, I would have realized that different disciplines use different organizational structures for their data, and this … Continue reading →

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Magical Knitting; Wicked Stitches

Posted on February 2, 2011 by Pat Bowne

by Julia Fenwick, Arcane Arts Museum The last time knitting was in vogue, magicians weren’t interested in it.  The pilled sweaters and bulky ponchos of our youth certainly had nothing magical about them.  But now it’s the information age, and … Continue reading →

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