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Florida has more forest cover than Colorado! (For an explanation, check out this thread on Reddit; hat tip: danyellan.)

According to various reports (just google the words “Jameis” and “Uber”), the ride-sharing firm Uber listened to its driver and banned NFL quarterback and accused rapist Jameis Winston from using their service. The driver, however, did not file a police … Continue reading →

0 to 100 km/h in 1.9 sec pic.twitter.com/xTOTDGuwQj — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 17, 2017

Hat tip: GScottCork, via Reddit

Bill Clinton should have resigned. (Updated Nov 19: a milder example of whiggism.) Below the fold, #Irony …

Check out this excellent essay by art critic Jerry Saltz, via Vulture. According to Mr Saltz, the newly-discovered Leonardo da Vinci painting (pictured below), which was sold for over $450 million, is most likely a sham.

David Singh Grewal, a law professor at Yale, and Jedediah Purdy, a law professor at Duke, recently posted this critique of law school education on their “Law and Political Economy” blog, using the famous “Coase theorem” as their straw man. In their … Continue reading →

Updated Nov. 15 & 20 (see “Notes” below). We recently presented a “Bayesian defense” of the famous legal rule in Hadley v. Baxendale at the 2017 meeting of the Southeastern Academy of Legal Studies in Business (SEALSB). (Our talk was based on … Continue reading →