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Blog post #1001
Above is the notification we received from WordPress. For the record, here is our first blog post, a picture titled Summer in Amsterdam from 5 July 2013. Here is our most visited one, an image titled Chess piece survival rates from … Continue reading
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“Ban airplanes. Yes, all of them.”
The venerable New Republic recently published an anti-gun diatribe by Phoebe Maltz Bovy, a young writer living in Toronto. Her essay is provocatively titled “It’s time to ban guns. Yes, all of them.” Not satisfied with just banning guns, we … Continue reading
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Recent Reading (“Methuselah’s Children”)
We’ve just finished reading Robert Heinlein’s 1958 science fiction novel Methuselah’s Children. Why wasn’t this book made into a movie? Among other things, Heinlein explores the possibility of extended human lifespans as well as the possibility of intergalactic travel faster than … Continue reading
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“La trampa de Gödel” (Venezuela edition)
Not long ago we published a formal paper titled Gödel’s Loophole in which we identify and distinguish between Gödelian and non-Gödelian design defects in the U.S. Constitution, loopholes that could potentially lead to the creation of a constitutional dictatorship within the existing … Continue reading
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Boricua Beer
We are grading our fall term final projects for Law & Ethics. In brief, we asked our students to choose a company they would want to be the CEO of and to explore various legal and ethical issues facing their company, … Continue reading
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“Don’t keep a schedule”
Marc Andresseen shares his quirky ideas for becoming a hyper-productive machine here. (We stumbled upon these guidelines via Tyler Cowen, the most hyper-productive blogger, reader, scholar bar none.) Some of Andresseen’s ideas make sense and are easy to implement–like “do … Continue reading
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Questions regarding the 13th Amendment
Happy Anniversary! On this day 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of U.S. States, including most (but not all) of the southern States that had left the Union and joined the rebel and pro-slavery … Continue reading
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Houseplane?
Check out this video (via digg), featuring Bruce Campbell, who lives in a Boeing 727.
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Credible Commitment?
What a great time to be alive, especially if you are consultant, what with so many philanthropic foundations to choose from … Our friend Mark Zuckerberg recently pledged–via a lengthy public letter ostensibly addressed to his newborn daughter–to donate 99% … Continue reading
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prior probability 