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Now that we have brushed off the outlandish first paragraph of Professor Friedman’s classic essay on business ethics (see our previous post), let’s turn to the second paragraph. Unlike the ad hominem nature of the first paragraph, this second paragraph … Continue reading →

Now that we have introduced Milton Friedman’s classic essay on business ethics (see our previous post), let’s jump right in, shall we? Professor Friedman’s first paragraph is by far his weakest one, for it contains some outlandish and sensational claims. … Continue reading →

Milton Friedman (1912-2006) made one of the most provocative arguments on the role of business firms in society almost 50 years ago. In a now-famous essay published on 13 September 1970 in The New York Times Magazine, Professor Friedman (pictured below) … Continue reading →

Although there are no “sick days” on the Internet, we’re going to take the day off as we’re feeling under the weather today …

That is the title of the “cookie art” pictured below. Check out Judith G. Klausner’s entire collection of “Oreo Cameos” here. (Hat tip: Cliff Pickover.)

Just kidding! But we love the ingenious idea proposed by Mike Maneth (see above). Yes, President Donald J. Trump promised at a campaign rally to pay $1 million to a charity of Senator Elizabeth Warren’s choice if she could prove … Continue reading →

Emily Temple, a writer and senior editor at Lit Hub, describes 20 different rooms where many famous books were written. She includes Ernest Hemingway’s library (pictured below) in Finca Vigía, his home outside Havana, Cuba, where “he wrote seven books, … Continue reading →

That is the title of the shortest scholarly paper in the annals of academia. The entire paper, which was “published” in 1972, is pictured in the blank space below! (More details here; hat tip: @pickover.)

Originally posted on prior probability:
The phrase ipse dixit is Latin for “he said it himself” and refers to an assertion without proof or a dogmatic expression of mere opinion. (Here is the Wikipedia entry for ipse dixit.) This phrase…