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Je suis Bruxelles
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Doughnut Pool Table
Why are most billiards tables always rectangular? The artist Cleon Daniel has designed and built a round “doughnut pool table” (pictured below) for our edification. You can check out more of the artist’s work here via Design Boom. (Hat tip: Cliff Pickover.)
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Visualization of moral entropy in Breaking Bad
Hat tip: Shreya Durvasula (via The Hooded Utilitarian)
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Review of “Contract as Promise”
Law professor Charles Fried published a little book called “Contract as Promise” in 1981. (It’s now in its second edition and is required reading in many contracts law courses.) His thesis, simply stated, is that promises are self-imposed moral obligations. … Continue reading
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The Law of Agency (Lesson 13)
Because of the ubiquity of principal-agent relationships in the business world, we will spend an entire lecture on the law of agency in our next class (3/21). Although we have been focusing mostly on the founding of Facebook this semester, … Continue reading
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Lego art (Dome of the Rock edition)
From Wikipedia (footnotes omitted): “The Dome of the Rock — Arabic: قبة الصخرة (transliteration: Qubbat Al-Sakhrah), Hebrew: כיפת הסלע (transliteration: Kipat Hasela) — is a shrine located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem … [It] is now one of … Continue reading
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Classroom primary
We teach a large business law and ethics lecture (n = 750) at a research university in Central Florida, and on Monday (3.14), we conducted an informal poll (via REEF polling) to see which candidates on the Republican side our students … Continue reading
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“Robots in American Law”
That is the title of this paper by Ryan Calo. Here is an excerpt from the abstract of the paper: “This article closely examines a half century of case law involving robots … Most of the cases involving robots have never … Continue reading
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prior probability 