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Today’s history lesson (via imgur) consists of an old map of the Californias (circa 1838). We tend to forget that the entire southwestern USA used to be Mexican territory before the Mexican-American War of 1848, an unjust and illegal war … Continue reading →

… the cards, that is (not the viruses!). You are probably familiar with traditional baseball cards and regular playing cards, but have you ever seen animated cards for infectious viruses? If not, check out the full set of animated virus … Continue reading →

That is the title of this paper by Ryan Calo. Here is an excerpt from the abstract of the paper: “This article closely examines a half century of case law involving robots … Most of the cases involving robots have never … Continue reading →

Because our business law class meets only once per week, we are combining Lessons 3 & 4 into a single lecture. As it happens, both business law lessons have something important in common: contracts. In the film “The Social Network” … Continue reading →

Can you solve the case of the missing “I’m feeling lucky” feature? For starters, check out this screenshot taken from our iPhone 5 earlier in the day (Jan. 30, 2016): Did you notice that the “I’m feeling lucky” feature on … Continue reading →

 Via kottke, check out this crazy table of cartoon characters drawn by artist Jaakko Seppälä. The diagonal from top left to bottom right (shaded gray) portrays a variety of familiar cartoon characters; the rows contain re-interpretations of these characters based … Continue reading →

Via Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution).