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How bad is Yahoo Mail?

Posted on November 25, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

According the website AllThingsD, executives at Yahoo! recently sent out this nasty and morale-shrinking email taking their underlings to task for not using their own company’s email service “Yahoo! Mail.” According to the internal email, “it’s a matter of principle to use the … Continue reading →

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The law and economics of Star Trek

Posted on November 24, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Several “Star Trek scholars”–including Matthew Yglesias, Rick Webb, and Joshua Gans–have recently speculated about the economics of Star Trek. How does the economy (and legal system, we would add) work in the world of Star Trek? Does the United Federation of … Continue reading →

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What’s up with Jay Z?

Posted on November 23, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

prior probability is a big fan of Jay Z, but his recent mishaps are causing us to update our “Jayzian” priors.  For example, we were disappointed when Jay Z visited socialist Cuba last spring but did not use this opportunity … Continue reading →

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“So what really happened that day …?”

Posted on November 22, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Is the lone gunman theory more or less probable than Oliver Stone’s conspiracy theory?

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The strategy of “nettlesomeness”

Posted on November 22, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

A few days ago, Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, used the word nettlesomeness to describe Magnus Carlsen‘s chess-playing strategy during the first half of the 2013 World Chess Championship in Chennai, India between Viswanathan Anand (winner of the 2012 World … Continue reading →

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“We don’t stop playing because we grow old …

Posted on November 22, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

… we grow old because we stop playing.” –George Bernard Shaw

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Suggestion box

Posted on November 20, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Extra credit. Do you have any ideas or topics for future posts?  Share them with prior probability in the comments section below.

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The Power Point Effect

Posted on November 20, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Is Power Point good or bad, on average?  prior probability likes the visual and creative possibilities of Power Point, but all too often, Power Point presentations are terribly boring and poorly executed. Here, for example, is what the famous Gettysburg Address … Continue reading →

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Explain this …

Posted on November 19, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Here is NFL referee Clete Blakeman explaning why the penalty at the end of last night’s game between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers was not in fact a penalty: So it was determined at that point in … Continue reading →

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Justice Posner?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

It’s remarkable that the most prolific and most cited legal scholar of the 20th century–Judge Richard A. Posner–has still not been appointed to be a Justice of the US Supreme Court … and probably never will be given his age and his caustic … Continue reading →

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