EconTech

Cerulean Studios has announced that it has already begun developing a newly-designed Mac version of its popular instant messaging software on the windows, Trillian.
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Jack Goldsmith’s “The Terror Presidency” is one of the most interesting and most insightful books yet to come out of the Bush White House. In October 2003, President Bush appointed Goldsmith, a self-described conservative who proudly proclaims that he is…
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See, Oz is WAY over done. And now I can comment. > Google.
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Crime rates have a large influence on the choices people make about where to live. The amazing declines in crime over the last fifteen years have been especially strong in big cities, a factor that helped fuel an urban renaissance. Ironically, however, [...]

A few years back, my great-grandmother died, in her nineties, after a long, slow, and cruel disintegration. I never knew her as a person, but in my distant childhood, she cooked for her family; I remember her gefilte fish, and…
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I tried to think of a witty, ironic title for this post, but in the end, I simply couldn’t. The above title is a literal statement of fact.
A reader named Warren Smith informs me of an Australian TV commercial (which you can watch on YouTube), in which two fashion models have the following conversation:
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At Rigorous Trivialities, a relatively new math weblog, there is a post that is an early contender for the title of Most Important Blog Post of All Time. It’s a sketch of a rigorous proof that parallel parking is always possible (assuming the space is longer than your car). So if you can’t [...]
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Today’s Post suggests we rely too heavily on legal confessions: In one experiment, Kassin asked volunteers to perform a challenging task on a computer but warned them not to touch the “Alt” key or risk damaging a computer. Volunteers were…
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Roland Piquepaille alerts us to research out of University College London in which virtual robots, trained to “see” as we do, were duped by optical illusions the same way humans are. Here’s one of the illusions the software system fell for.
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