Category Archives: Questions Rarely Asked

What will your epitaph say?

Posted on April 19, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via reddit.

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Should passports become obsolete?

Posted on April 18, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

After all, you don’t need a passport to travel across State lines within the U.S., so why do foreigners need a passport or even a visa to enter the United States? Why won’t any government-issued I.D. suffice? Heck, why do we even … Continue reading →

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Good or bad idea? (“I’m feeling lucky”–Google car edition)

Posted on April 16, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Hat tip: Tonto3.

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Annals of deception (world wide web edition)

Posted on April 12, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol
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Optimal video length for student engagement is six minutes …

Posted on April 6, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 →

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Is the Eiffel Tower a work of art?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol
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Data-driven epitaphs?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol
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Sweet Spot

Posted on March 19, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via reddit, what’s your sweet spot? Ours is teaching …

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Crimes against logic 

Posted on March 8, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via reddit, why don’t they teach this in law school?

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Academic R&D Expenditures (2005-2012)

Posted on March 7, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Via Professor Michael Risch at The Faculty Lounge: “This chart tells us a lot of things. First, it shows that the supposedly huge spending on law scholarship is actually tiny when compared to many other fields. (If you can’t read … Continue reading →

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