Unenumerated

This month has thrown off quite a bit of new information on Neanderthals and on the possibility that they interbred with some of the humans...

This is a post is for those of you who are fellow fans of evolutionary theories of behavior. A genetic strategy has been postulated by evolu...

The potential for the application of discrete mathematics beyond computer science: in biology, economics, sociology, etc. Hal Finney's ...

Given that I subscribe to the law of the dominant paradigm , I have a soft spot in my heart for ideas that haven't gotten the attention ...

Bryan Caplan has a great article on the irrationality of voters. (No, it's not a commentary on the most recent American election, which...

I come up with far more ideas than I have time to properly evaluate, much less pursue. Long ago I worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory an...

To what extent can law be mechanized? This author , Mark Miller , Lawrence Lessig , and others have proposed that software code can provide ...

When we hear the word "authority" we often think of people who have set themselves up in positions of power and on whom we have be...

Today was the start of that glorious lost cause that ultimately won, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. That event is today's featured arti...

The pigeonhole principle sounds trivial but is profound. It says that you can't fit n pigeons into fewer than n holes without cramming a...

Jurisdiction is the legal right of a court to order coercive process: to imprison a person, to put them on trial, to punish criminals, and ...