SELLING AIKIDO 2

Josh Gold is doing a yeoman’s job at keeping Aikido Journal (AJ) both timely and relevant (including an article by our own Mulligan Sensei). Nevertheless, the devaluation of Aikido’s currency is pronounced and continuing. The 2019 (pre-Covid) results of a AJ survey show that the typical Aikidoist is older (81% > 40 years), white, male,Continue reading “SELLING AIKIDO 2”

Library of Borges

The feature image – used on the Resources page – doesn’t begin to capture the size of the library Borges imagined in his short story The Library of Babel, a library with unimaginable mathematics. What would the card catalog system for such a physical library be like? The Central Social Institute of Prague (1937) offersContinue reading “Library of Borges”