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Check out this homage to the late great puzzle master Martin Gardner. Here is one of his mathematical puzzles: “Imagine heating a metal ring enough so it expands. What happens to the hole, does it get bigger or smaller?”

SLoG stands for State & Local Government Law Blog, and this new legal blog is available for your edification here. You’re welcome! (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.)

Once again, I am assigning the award-winning film “The Social Network,” along with episode 4 of “Tiger King,” in my business law survey course. (For your reference, see my Fall 2021 Syllabus, the first four pages of which are pictured … Continue reading →

(a) Folium of Descartes, (b) Witch of Agnesi, (c) Cubical Parabola, (d) Semicubical Parabola, (e) Strophoid, and (f) Cissoid of Diocles

That is the title of my 2007 paper on judicial senility, which I am showcasing today as part of my “Throwback Thursday” series in which I feature my most “vintage” scholarly works. As an aside, my four-page paper on “Senile … Continue reading →

That is the title of this report by Laura Tedesco and Rut Diamint, which was just published in Foreign Affairs. (Alas, annoyingly, the article is paywalled, but you can obtain a link to an ungated version of the article by … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Credit: John Atkinson (hat tip: kottke)

@bigozmusic Innocent girl begs for help in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 💔 #afghan #kabulbleeds #afghanistan #sad #fyp ♬ original sound – BIG OZ

Aside from status signalling, of course? According to this essay by Agnes Callard, “a university is a place where people help each other access the highest intellectual goods. A university is a place of heterodidacticism.” Robin Hanson, however, replies to … Continue reading →