PRCO303 GIS Stack

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…

Treaties As A Tool Of Terror

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…

Supply and Demand

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…

“Iron snails, people! Iron snails.” http://bit.ly/a4YB8q

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…

Abstinence, Now With Condoms

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…

Iron-plated snail

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…

Copyright And Incentives

Sonny Bunch whacks Yglesias:

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…

Markets in everything

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…

Artificial-Limb Envy

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….

Property Outlaws

Shared by Melissa
Property prof Katyal’s new book.