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The home page of The Browser tonight, announcing the winners of The Golden Giraffes 2015 pic.twitter.com/HpTmAg8ql8 — TheBrowser (@TheBrowser) December 19, 2015

Via kottke, we discovered the Free Universal Construction Kit, a set of 80 two-way adapters that allows kids to connect Legos and Tinkertoys together: “By allowing any piece to join to any other, the Kit encourages totally new forms of … Continue reading →

Above is the notification we received from WordPress. For the record, here is our first blog post, a picture titled Summer in Amsterdam from 5 July 2013. Here is our most visited one, an image titled Chess piece survival rates from … Continue reading →

And the nominees are: (a) Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok (Marginal Revolution) (b) Robin Hanson (Overcoming Bias) (c) Jason Kottke (kottke) (d) Eugene Volokh & Company (Volokh Conspiracy) These “blog kings” are our favorite individual bloggers. Who else should we … Continue reading →

Business litigation is often like the game of poker. For example, when deciding whether to settle or go to trial, a plaintiff must decide whether to invest more money in his or her case in order to secure a possible … Continue reading →

In the movie version of the bestselling book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, Eduardo Saverin threatens to sue his friend Mark Zuckerberg when he finally discovers that his original 30% equity stake in Facebook–the social network business he cofounded with Mark … Continue reading →

That is the title of our most recent work-in-progress in which we suggest replacing judicial review with some form of “constitutional arbitration.” We will present our work during the Sixth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium sponsored by the Loyola School of … Continue reading →

Putting the "Rubio missing Senate votes" narrative to bed in one graphic… https://t.co/383fs0cDuc— Aaron Robinow (@aaronrobinow) October 27, 2015

“It wasn’t about two kids in a dorm room anymore.” –Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires, Ch. 25. When an entrepreneur launches a new business, like Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg did when he created “thefacebook” in the spring of 2004, he or she … Continue reading →

In honor of the Arch turning 50 years old today(!), check out this paper on “The Mathematics of the Gateway Arch” by Robert Osserman. What an amazing way to illustrate the concept of functions in mathematics! Image credit: Alex Dzierba.