March 14, 2009
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Gentlemen (and ladies) … sync your iPods (if you’re into this sort of thing): THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
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An item about dog grooming in something called Medill Reports mentions, inter alia: Canine myotherapy, or muscle therapy for dogs, has been around since for “as long as people have been petting their dogs,” said Sue Olmos, a certified myotherapist at Midstates Myotherapy and Sanchez’s former teacher. While massaging athlete dogs can date back to…
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Spiegel has an extensive article on Mathias Döring’s efforts to enlighten the world about the Gadara aqueduct which he began following/discovered back in 2004 (I think). Here’s a bit of a tease from the article: The tunnel was discovered by Mathias Döring, a hydromechanics professor in Darmstadt, Germany. Treading on moss-covered steps, he squeezes his…
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I suspect that — in the wake of this Golb business — media outlets will overreact by giving attention to every fringe theory … a case in point is Ha’aretz’s item on Rachel Elior’s views on the Essenes. While I think it is reasonable to question whether the Essenes were the ‘authors’ of the Dead…
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I think I missed linking to this (png) mockup of Vergil’s purported Facebook page (it’s generally billed as “the Aeneid on Facebook”), which was making the rounds of the lists again this week … synchronicitally, in the wake of news that some juror at a trial was Twittering, CBS was speculating on other trials which…
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