According to a recent blog post, Columbia Pictures may have officially ended its relationship with Tobey Maguire and Sam Raimi with respect to the popular Spiderman movie franchise. There have…
Our friends at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV are hosting a two-day contracts conference in late February. From the announcement:Reviving the spirit of prior International Conferences…
How can I get my boyfriend to _____? How can I get my girlfriend to _____? You could fill in the blanks yourself, but Dan Ariely’s post using Google to…
Are you a fan of the Peanuts comic strip?Do you love baseball?Looking for a project that may require empirical research?If you answered "yes" to these three questions, then maybe you…
Like many, I’ve followed with interest the recent ruckus over Harry Reid’s comments to journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, reported in their new book, "Game Change," that Obama could…
Over at Feminist Law Professors, my colleague David Cohen is doing a survey on how much law school RA's get paid. Anyone interested in sharing this salary information (or learning…
At an AALS Annual Meeting panel on the electronification of law libraries over the weekend, an interesting point was made about the need (or otherwise) for peer reviewed law journals. …
Anyone else around here like pictures of old gas stations? Is it just me? I've collected some photographs of gas stations along US Route One in southern Virginia and northern ...
Via Peter Klein at Organizations and Markets, Amanda Goodall, of Warwick Business School and author of Socrates in the Boardroom: Why Research Universities Should be Led by Top Scholars (Princeton…
I took this when I was home over winter break; man was it cold that day. This is the octagonal school at the Birmingham Friends' Meeting House. I'm guessing it's…