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Saturday, July 29, 2006
Customer value meter
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When you call Cingular customer service, the customer representative you talk to learns your value to the company via this handy meter. You ...
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Security and the origins of agriculture
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Climate-based explanations for the birth of agriculture are nonsense (like this one , via Marginal Revolution , which adds further nonsense ...
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
Constitution Society
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John Roland's constitution.org is an exceptional resource on United States constitutional law.
Prion evolution
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Prions are alternatively folded proteins that catalyze the same alternative foldings in other (usually otherwise identical) proteins. Like D...
Monday, July 03, 2006
Democracy as regular rebellion
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It's the eve of Independence Day here in the United States, celebrating the American insurgents who broke from England. We did have some...
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Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Selling seashells by the seashore
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Richard Parker lives in a small Philippine fishing village. He has extensively studied contemporary seashore foraging, fishing, and bead-ma...
U.S. Supreme Court decides to hear global warming case
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The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear Massachusetts v. EPA, a challenge by some states in federal court to force the EPA to regulate ca...
Friday, June 23, 2006
Monetary origins pushed back
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Archaeologists report in this week's Science that they have found shell beads in Algeria and Israel dating back to about 90,000 and 10...
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Thursday, June 22, 2006
Metabolite
dismissed, but no justice argues "law of nature" claim is valid
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We are going to have to wait longer for the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion on the section 101 patentable subject matter jurisprudence of t...
Monday, June 19, 2006
Menger on money: right and wrong
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The classic economic account of the origins of money is that of Carl Menger. Menger described money as emerging out of markets where commod...
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Security and the institutions of medieval republics
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I have written about how the productivity of property, and the institutions associated with that property, have tended to be greatly improve...
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