this week’s batch of randomly selected music: Buffalo Tom’s “Asides”, Grant Hart’s undeservedly little known “Good News For Modern Man” and The Kropotkins’ “5 Points Crawl”. They wouldn’t sound half as good if you heard them played on MTV.
A less than startling observation follows. Animals penned in enclosed spaces often develop repetitive behaviour patterns: in scientific jargon, this is called “stereotypic route-tracing”, or more generally “stereotypic behavior”.
A leopard at the world famous Night Safari circles in a never-ending figure 8. While the symbolism of the “Eight” in Feng Sui-riven Singapore might signal [...]
The legal historian David Daube wrote over one hundred monographs during his productive life. Forms of Roman Law and The New Testament and Rabbinic Judaism remain notable ever-present reading companions, now joined by The Exodus pattern, their equal both in terms of scholarship and insight. An online bibliography is found here. Read his obituary here. [...]
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