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Agricultural water consumption
“Almonds are especially thirsty in the southern San Joaquin. But there’s a lucrative overseas market for them so growers have been planting more and more trees. Basically, one almond requires a gallon of water to produce,” writes L.A. Times columnist George Skelton. … Continue reading
“In chess. First move. E4 or D4. Which is better?”
This is one of the quirky questions the hyper-productive blogger and cultural economist Tyler Cowen posed to Peter Thiel recently. Here is Thiel’s reply (the aside in brackets was added by us): THIEL: It’s probably the case that D4 is marginally … Continue reading
Copyright infringement?
J’s on your feet? Via Darren Rovell: A photographer by the name of Jacobus Rentmeester is suing Nike for copyright infringement (you can read more about this case here), alleging that his picture of Michael Jordan (left) was changed slightly by Nike … Continue reading
Optimal video length for student engagement is six minutes …
According to this report by Philip Guo, Juho Kim, and Rob Rubin, who studied student engagement with online courses offered by the edX consortium (edX’s Wikipedia here). Guo, Kim, and Rubin took all 862 educational videos from four edX courses offered in the fall of 2012 … Continue reading
Litigation is a crapshoot (“Hot Bench” edition)
Meet the “hot” judges of the new syndicated TV show “Hot Bench” (Wikipedia article here). Unlike every other judge show in this well-worn daytime TV genre, “Hot Bench” features a panel of three judges and goes behind the scenes to show … Continue reading
A friendly critique of Steve Coast’s critique of rules
We stumbled upon this excellent essay (“The world will only get weirder”) by Steve Coast via the hyper-productive Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution (our second-favorite website, by the way). In summary, Mr Coast argues that there is an inverse relation between … Continue reading
Is the Eiffel Tower a work of art?
Posted in Art, Cooperation, Culture, Questions Rarely Asked
Tagged Eiffel Tower, Paris
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