This chapter details the increasingly indispensable part German big business played in expelling German Jews from economic life and dispossessing them, including in the annexed regions of Austria and the Czech lands. Avarice and self-defense were the principal motivators, with the latter becoming increasingly important as time passed.

What drove the transformation of Britain’s population, economy and environment so that by 1819 it was arguably the most rapidly industrializing and urbanizing society in the world?

Echoing the Somerset proverb quoted by John Ray, we can state that if we have only one celestial body, that is too few objects to study celestial dynamics. A system with two bodies, as we saw in the previous chapter, contains interesting physics. But what about a three-body system? We might conclude, considering the possible complexity of such a system, that it contains too many objects to be tractable.

Sir James Jeans Always says what he means; He is really perfectly serious About the Universe being Mysterious. E. Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) Punch, vol. 196, issue 5100, p. 39 [1939 Jan 11]

The obligation to support space exploration can be defended in at least three ways: (1) the ‘argument from resources,’ that space exploration is useful for amplifying our available resources; (2) the ‘argument from asteroids,’ that space exploration is necessary for protecting the environment and its inhabitants from extraterrestrial threats such as meteorite impacts; and (3) the ‘argument from solar burnout,’ that we are obligated to pursue interstellar colonization in order to ensure long-term human survival. However, even if we accept all three propositions, that space exploration will give us access to asteroidal and other resources; will allow us to defend ourselves against meteorites (by intercepting or destroying them); and finally that interstellar colonization might be useful in saving us from solar burnout, it does not follow that we have an obligation to do any of those things. What follows is that we have reasons to take those actions as practical measures that will bring about the ends in question. But no obligation per se arises from the fact that those measures will be helpful in attaining those ends.

Ketamine is a non-competitive antagonist of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors and also binds to mu and kappa opioid receptors. It is licensed as an anaesthetic agent for diagnostic and surgical procedures and is best suited to shorter procedures. It has a role in the ICU as a co-analgesic, with opioid-sparing properties. It has good analgesic properties in subanaesthetic doses. Use of midazolam or another benzodiazepine as an adjunct to ketamine reduces the incidence of emergence reactions.

The preceding chapters have argued that the Anagni and Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes are products of the significant cultural and intellectual expansion that occurred in Rome and the papal state during the middle decades of the thirteenth century. In their own distinct ways, the two monuments brought together worldly and religious knowledge within stylistically uniform and spatially immersive pictorial programs. As assemblages of varied forms of learning, the two mural cycles invited reflective viewing, and in many cases required viewers to make interpretive connections between spatially distant images. Such dynamic interaction between educated viewers and architecturally embedded images could generate combinatory and associative interpretations that granted individual motifs new levels of meaning based on their relation to other images within the cycle. In this way, each monument functioned not only as a monumental image of the world’s knowledge but also as an interactive tool for philosophical thinking.

Octreotide is an analogue of somatostatin. It is used to provide relief from symptoms associated with carcinoid tumours and acromegaly. It may also be used for the prevention of complications following pancreatic surgery. For patients undergoing pancreatic surgery, the peri- and post-operative administration of octreotide reduces the incidence of typical post-operative complications (e.g. pancreatic fistula, abscess and subsequent sepsis, post-operative acute pancreatitis). Octreotide exerts an inhibiting effect on gallbladder motility, bile acid secretion and bile flow, and there is an acknowledged association with the development of gallstones in prolonged usage.

I’m trying to relax, but it’s hard. Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952–2023) New York Times interview, 2017 Apr 22