9.14.2016

Building a Better Table (/Voting System)

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In my last post , I explained why trying to make a third party work in the current American electoral system is like trying to make a funct...
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American 3rd parties don't fail because of cynicism. They fail *because math.*

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A pole is not a table. You want to build the tallest, most beautiful house of cards in the world. But all you have to build on is a short,...
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6.07.2016

Wonderful Swedes, Workable Science

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If y'all haven't already discovered The Weeds , Vox's policy podcast, OMG you don't know what you're missing. It's l...
11.06.2015

Lifehacks! (All the cool kids are doing it, etc.)

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Okay, but in all seriousness... My friend Tracey asked if neuro people knew cool magic tricks and stuff. We do ! But that also reminded m...
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8.26.2015

Larry Lessig -- or, the Man Who Wouldn't Be President

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In case you've heard murmurings but have found it all very academic, here's an explainer on the latest campaign to stir things...
8.26.2014

A short, inexpert survey of scholarly work on police use of lethal force.

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Source: NBC The thing about Ferguson is... we are operating squarely within the confines of collective social and institutional mem...
7.15.2014

FutureArt: protected by policy? Free but impoverished? Can we have it both ways?

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I consider myself a perennial noob on the subject of artistic intellectual property, so I'm soliciting reactions to this piece from Vox ...