by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion
I suspect we all like things that are new and fresh — but especially when there’s also an element of familiarity. I suppose that’s why we like spring so much. We know what butterflies look like, but after a winter without them, there’s a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 18, 2014 | Opinion
Perhaps you’ve seen the article about a Greek papyrus from the third century CE that contains the first written evidence of someone agreeing to throw a game in return for a bribe. In this case the object was actually to be thrown, three times, in a wrestling...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
There are some things in life that I don’t understand. I try not to be a curmudgeon about these things, but remain baffled by them. Why do perfectly healthy young college students line up at the elevator to go down two floors when class is over? Down! The...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 10, 2014 | Opinion
A record was set April 9, though it didn’t make many headlines. A clay cylinder marking Nebuchadnezzar II’s reconstruction of a temple to Shamash (the sun God) in Sippar (modern Tell Abu Habbah, in Iraq) was auctioned by Doyle’s of New York for a...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 6, 2014 | Opinion
The April 6 Parade magazine included an interesting take on relations between the “boomer” generation, now moving into retirement, and their children, the “millennials.” (Here’s a similar report from NPR). While demographers and...
