Jul 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
“Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber.” – Shakespeare, Julius Caesar. Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? According to Foster, some areas of the brain...
Jul 13, 2017 | general law, Uncategorized
Bob Dylan’s pointed and versatile lyrics are cited in judicial opinions and have earned him a Nobel Prize for literature. The late Justice Antonin Scalia loved opera, but he also had a soft spot for Bob Dylan. In a 2010 dissent, for instance, he chastised the...
Jun 23, 2017 | Family Law, Uncategorized
Judge Morison Buck wrote the “Chips Off the Old Bench” column in the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s publication, Lawyer. Judge Buck passed away in 2014; however his biographies of 58 Hillsborough County judges are preserved. They make...
Jun 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy, Ann Karenina (1878) Although technology allows people to stay connected over long distances, it can interfere with family bonding. The pressure to stay connected online...
Jun 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
For all 100,000 prisoners in their system, Florida has published data including their age, race, sex, what crimes they’ve committed, and — most intriguingly — what tattoos they have. The most obvious thing this data shows is just how common tattoos are. Kevin Waters,...
Jun 1, 2017 | general law, Uncategorized
Lying, it turns out, is something that most of us are very adept at. We lie with ease, in ways big and small, to strangers, co-workers, friends, and loved ones. Our capacity for dishonesty is as fundamental to us as our need to trust others, which ironically makes us...
