Can you spot the difference between a “fashionista” and a “trumpanista,” or this is a false choice, a distinction without a difference? The Urban Dictionary defines a fashionista as “a person devoted to fashion clothing, particularily [sic] unique or high fashion.” We would argue that a trumpanista, by contrast, is someone who purposely wears outmoded articles of clothing, like the now-iconic hat worn (and sold) by businessman-extraordinaire and presidential candidate Donald Trump. Or as Ashley Parker, writing for the N.Y. Times, explains (edited by us for clarity): Continue reading
That is the title of our short letter published in today’s issue of the journal Science (pictured below). Briefly, we propose extending the common law tort of fraudulent misrepresentation to research fraud published in academic journals. By the way, we also recently blogged about the (remote?) possibility that academic institutions themselves could be legally liable for any research fraud committed by their researchers under the well-established legal theory of vicarious liability. (See our blog post dated 12 Sept. 2015.) We will have more to say about the law and economics of research fraud in future blog posts.
We were attending an academic conference at the University of Florida in Gainesville this weekend when we found this little letter in a display case on the first floor of Gerson Hall. The one-page letter is dated 4 July 2002 and was written by Fred Fisher, an alumnus of UF’s business school. (Click on the letter above to see a larger copy.) It contains a set of five “Fisherisms” or maxims in Mr Fisher’s own handwriting, and we like them all, especially the last one …
“I’m thinking we keep it simple and call it the facebook.” –Mark Zuckerberg, as quoted in Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires, Chapter 11. When Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg registered the Internet domain name for “thefacebook” and began building his new social network website in January of 2004 (see below for a picture of the original Facebook home page), he was creating a very valuable form of intellectual property (or “IP,” for short). But what type of IP did Mark Zuckerberg create? Also, have you ever created any form of intellectual property in your life? If so, what type of IP have you created?
According to this report by Jacob Kastrenakes in The Verge, Facebook is finally about to roll out some kind of Dislike Button … It’s about time; after all, YouTube has had a “thumbs down” or dislike option for years. Paradoxically, we really “Like” the idea of a Dislike option. Do you? Our only questions are, (i) what took so long, (ii) will we be able to dislike sponsored ads, and (iii) why doesn’t WordPress (the sponsor of this blog) offer a dislike button?
Hopefully It’s Interesting.
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