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My colleague David Pozen, a law professor at Columbia University, recently wrote this essay on “the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere.” (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) To the point, Professor Pozen critiques the “marketplace of … Continue reading →

That is the name of this fascinating guessing game that I stumbled upon as I was reading “The Biggest Bluff” by Maria Konnikova. This game was invented in the early 2000s by two poker players, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak. … Continue reading →

Via Tumblr (circa 2014, emphasis added): “Last Man … is a game of deliberate media/knowledge avoidance, invented by … Kyle Whelliston. Its full name is ‘Last Man in America to Know Who Won the Super Bowl‘.” The official rules of … Continue reading →

To commemorate Saint Valentine’s Day, I am reposting my Adam Smith’s Lost Loves blog post (via AdamSmithWorks) as well as my full-length paper on Adam Smith in Love (via Econ Journal Watch). As an aside, according to this history of … Continue reading →

With Saint Valentine’s Day around the corner — and Black History Month in full swing — today I want to take us back to 1978 to share this music video of “Is this love“. FYI: Bob Marley was born in … Continue reading →

Via Kottke, the video below shows how the “warp jump” special effect in the Star Trek universe has changed over the years, beginning with Star Trek: The Movie in 1979. (In case you’re wondering, there were no warp-speed special effects … Continue reading →

Also, via Reddit, see here for maps of British, German, Japanese, and North American sportswear brands. File under: Big, Bad Nike versus the World.

I have blogged about Rosa Parks before (see here and here, for example), but I did not know that the actual city bus in which she was arrested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to … Continue reading →