
Rolando Peñate lives in Brooklyn, is Design Lead at OpenGeo, part of the design team at The Open Planning Project, and occasionally syndicates parts of his life here.
The Next Industrial Revolution?
Chris Anderson thinks small:
The tools of factory production, from electronics assembly to 3-D printing, are now available to individuals, in batches as small as a single unit. Anybody…
Wall Street owners angry with their purchase
Political science professors could require students to read this article from today’s New York Times and little else would be needed to convey the essence of the American political system. The…
Erik Voeten points to a paper (pdf) by James Hollyer and Peter Rosendorff arguing that authoritarian regimes tend to ratify the Convention Against Torture with the express purpose of torturing…
The sex ratio on many U.S. campuses is around 60/40 and rising. The NYTimes has an excellent piece on the predictable consequences for dating.
North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly…
Life is but a holographic projection
An experiment to detect gravitational waves may indicate that our universe is a holographic projection.
If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of…
Dan Savage reads the latest study on abstinence education:
[H]ere’s what the Jesus crowd—along with the headline writers and headline scanners—are glossing over: this study didn’t find the kind…
Not your father's evolution
Recent evidence of horizontal gene transfer — in which genes are exchanged from other organisms, not from ancestors — has some scientists thinking that the dominant form of evolution for most of…
Vegetative state not so vegetative
Using brain scanning equipment and a cleverly designed interrogation technique, scientists have been able to ask questions of so-called vegetative patients; one of them even answered yes or no…
A snail that lives near the hydrothermal vents in the Indian Ocean has developed an unusual defense mechanism: it uses the iron sulfide in the surrounding water to make an iron-plated shell with…
The purpose of intellectual property law has very little to do with Matt Yglesias being able to enjoy a wide variety of new music. The purpose of…
Anti-theft lunch bags. Here is the description:
…a few spots of mold may work wonders to protect your precious sandwich when your custom labels, pleading requests and desperate detective…
Thursday | Today’s idea: Technology and the marketplace have transformed the artificial limb from emblem of hurt and loss into paradigm of the “sleek, modern and powerful,” an article says….
Shared by MelissaProperty Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition that, in the case of both tangible and intellectual property law,…
Property prof Katyal’s new book.