From the same root as Shalom sh-l-m. Refers to a cycle, returning, health, peace, greetings, and many other things. It is also the name of the lover in the "Song of Songs." Generally miss-translated in Bibles into English as "Shulamite."
Corduroy-pants-wearing, tea-mug-wielding, beard-sporting entity. Although short of stature, can easily be spotted wandering between buildings in search of students to recommend books to.
Hilary: Hi Peter!
Peter Shulman: Hello Hilary Hilary: There he goes again ....
"Shulgin's babies" refers to any of the huge number of psychedelic hallucinagens described by Alexander Shulgin in his books PiHKAL and TiHKAL. It is most often, however, associated with those that he invented, especially the 2C line of phenethylamines (2C-B, 2C-E, 2C-T-21, etc).
"I dropped some of Shulgin's babies last night and the smoke detector started to melt and my chair was smiling at me."