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Why are law reviews so dull, tedious, and boring?
Adam Liptak’s recent report in the New York Times on “lackluster law reviews” is fun to read and highly recommended. Here is an excerpt: Law reviews are not really meant to be read. They mostly exist as a way for … Continue reading
Should “revenge porn” be a crime or a tort?
Or neither? The State of California recently created a new misdemeanor offense–that of posting identifiable nude photographs of another person online without his or her permission, but only when such public postings are done with the intent to cause emotional distress or … Continue reading
“If you’re never wrong …
… you’re never interesting.” –Felix Salmon
“Beam me up Scotty”
Who said that? According to this pithy report by Karl Smallwood, Captain Kirk never uttered these precise words in the original Star Trek series. Captain Kirk comes close, however, on several occasions. For example, he says “Scotty, beam us up, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beam me up Scotty, Star Trek, Wrongfully Attributed Statements
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This is what hypocrisy looks like
The NY Times recently interviewed legendary college football coach and ESPN analyst Lou Holtz on a wide range of topics relating to college football. Check out this particular exchange from the interview: NY Times Question: Are there too many [college football] … Continue reading
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Tagged College Football, Hypocrisy, Lou Holtz, Markets, Player Salaries
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“Gödel’s Loophole”
That is the title of this paper which revisits the legendary story of Kurt Gödel‘s purported discovery of a deep logical flaw in the US Constitution on the eve of his citizenship examination in December 1947. But what was this flaw? No one … Continue reading
What is the optimal length of a blog post?
We can all agree that, ideally, blogs should be engaging and entertaining and even educational, but how long should a blog post be? On one extreme, we have the Twitter model in which “tweets” must be 140 characters or less … Continue reading
Should the US military offer immunity to members of terrorist groups?
Why not? It’s been done before. Specifically, the US military eventually used this approach in response to the gruesome massacre of civilians in Lawrence, Kansas on 21 August 1863, the largest mass murder of unarmed American civilians on US soil … Continue reading
Internet Population Map (circa 2006)
Via the science journal Nature, this is what a political map of the world would look like if the size of each country were correlated with the size of its online population. Here is a more recent internet population map.
Review of “David and Goliath”
A lot of envious academics and various haters (here is one egregious example) have been critical of Malcolm Gladwell’s lastest work David and Goliath. prior probability, however, loved it. Here’s why: 1. First and foremost, Gladwell is a great writer. True, … Continue reading
