Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Coase to the rescue!
As my friend and colleague Alex Tabarrok (@ATabarrok), an economics professor at George Mason University, recently pointed out (see chart below), CO2 emissions in the USA are actually falling, but alas they are rising in the rest of the world, … Continue reading
Happy holiday?
Do you have the day off? The third Monday of February is a federal holiday, but what should we call it? Read about the history of Washington’s Birthday here, via Wikipedia. Below is a portrait of George Washington by John … Continue reading
Visualization of Facebook’s terms of service
I printed out Facebook’s terms of service (10 point font or smaller) and attached all the pages together into a single master document, eliminating all blank spaces. (The picture on the bottom shows the first page of this massive undertaking.) … Continue reading
Mondrian cake
The cake pictured below was baked in honor of the great Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, whose abstract art “reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements,” to quote from Wikipedia. (As an aside, both Abraham Lincoln and … Continue reading
Heroic history
We have mixed feelings about “Black History Month.” On the one hand, joyous celebrations of so many great heroes (especially unsung heroes) are in order, but at the same time, such celebrations and remembrances should not be confined to a … Continue reading

