Month: September 2009

The Telegraph, via Tyler Cowen.  Half of Britons surveyed report being injured while eating biscuits.  Risks include such varied hazards as scalding from hot tea or coffee while dunking, breaking a tooth, injury…

As the fall submission season (I assume) is coming to a close, I thought I'd muse on the number 15.  For some reason, I've always found that when trying to…

Identify the players who hold these all-star game records:Hitters:1.  Most career hits.2.  Most career RBI’s.3.  Most career home runs.Pitchers:4.  Most appearances.5.  Most starts.6.  Most innings pitched.Miscellaneous:7.  Most career appearances.8.  Oldest…

Over at doublex, Kerry Howley's talking about Kim Krawiec's paper Sunny Samaritans and Egomaniacs: Price-Fixing in the Gamete Marketa.  Howley said she was afraid that Kim's paper on "would send…

As a research dean, one of my roles is to ensure that we have a workable mentoring program in place for tenure track faculty.  For some years, the school has…

Unless you want to shell out some rebate money, that is.  In a post over at Freakonomics today, Ayres reveals that he paid out more than $150 in rebate money…

A big shout-out to our friends at Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, which opens the doors today to its new facility in Raleigh (bottom of picture).  …

. . . or rather the camera angle.  This "robbery" looks very different from the first video footage shown than from the following three.  Via Rolfe Winkler:

My friend, Beau Baez (pictured), is the chair of the faculty appointments committee at Charlotte School of Law.  In a recent hiring-related post over at Prawfsblawg, Beau wrote:Our primary focus…

It seems to be that time of year where I'm receiving a ton of requests to review articles for peer-reviewed journals - as I suspect many of you are too. …