Lynne Kiesling This week’s Economist has a couple of good articles about the need for patent law reform. The first one (subscription required), entitled “Monopolies of the Mind”, starts off with a great quote from Thomas Jefferson: PATENTS, said Thomas Jefferson, should draw ?a line between the things which are worth to the public the …
Lynne Kiesling All I can say is uff-dah! Google has released Google Scholar, a search engine that searches more specific scholarly sources. For example, I ran this search on “reactive power”, and it turned up a bunch of useful engineering citations that would be more difficult for me to find through my university library. And …
Lynne Kiesling Some funky stuff is happening here, including comments disappearing without my removing them. I have hit the limit of the old MT-Blacklist and it’s pushing me to upgrade to MT 3.2.12, which should happen this evening if I can entice the KP IT support engineer (i.e., the KP Spouse) to spend a Friday …
Pat Lynch About five years ago a friend was visiting my home in Washington, DC (I’m a recovering academic from a previous life…..) and noticed a copy of Jack High and Clayton Coppin’s Politics of Purity on one of my cheap and ultimately doomed Ikea bookshelves. He turned, looked at me, and said “man, you …
Lynne Kiesling On Tuesday afternoon I attended a session at the annual NARUC meetings on the potential for IGCC Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle technology and impediments to investment and implementation. IGCC essentially is a process for turning coal into synthetic natural gas, which puts the coal through a gasifier, extracts pollutants like particulate matter and …
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Pat Lynch Have been consistently surprised and disappointed by the extended public and private mourning period the American left is wallowing in. The public hand-wringing over the values debate has obscured a more disturbing trend I’ve seen among Democrats – conceit. Implicit in a lot of the complaints from the left has been the notion …
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Lynne Kiesling Please join me in welcoming our first guest-blogger, political scientist Pat Lynch. Pat is a fellow at Liberty Fund, and has done extensive writing on the confluence of economic and political aspects of elections. I hope that the variety that Pat brings to our studiously apolitical site will be thought- and conversation-provoking.
Pat Lynch Greetings, and thanks to Lynne for allowing me to do a little posting here at Knowledge Problem. Pundits, politicians, and friends of mine have been picking over the exit poll data that have shown a remarkable turnout among core Republican voters, especially evangelical Christians. A lot has been made about how this election …
Lynne Kiesling Adam’s eloquent tribute to Chicago is one of the most delightful pieces of writing on my hometown that I’ve seen in a very long time. I recommend it highly. And not just because he’s very kind and generous to me, or because he wrote it on my sunporch … but because he captures …
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