Lynne Kiesling Caught my eye on Friday, but I got distracted: Kerry Howley’s Hit & Run post on pending regulations outlawing the use of glass in Scottish pubs. How ridiculous is that? Making everyone drink out of crappy glasses just because a few morons refuse to control the exercise of their tempers (or their livers, …
Lynne Kiesling Martin Feldstein has a column in today’s WSJ (subscription required) in which he recommends that the government issue tradeable gasoline rights (TGRs) instead of either raising CAFE standards or imposing a gasoline tax. In a system of tradeable gasoline rights, the government would give each adult a TGR debit card. The gasoline pumps …
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Lynne Kiesling An entire month of international football (ok, soccer) begins on Friday! Skip Sauer kindly provides the television schedule in the U.S., which I also went out of my way to find yesterday. I’m not optimistic about Team USA this year, particularly given the group they’ve drawn. As usual, I’m cheering for England as …
Lynne Kiesling This BBC article from last Wednesday provides some good information about methanol fuel cell-powered laptops. The technology promises to supplement or replace today’s batteries in laptops. Instead of storing power, fuel cells generate electricity by breaking down methanol via an electrochemical process. The cells can be recharged by topping them up with methanol …
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Lynne Kiesling I had been aware of the Seattle Public School District’s recent attempt to define “institutional racism” because of Eugene Volokh’s post a couple of weeks ago, but I didn’t broach the subject here because I didn’t have anything to add other than to observe that it’s disturbing to have some institutional imposition of …
Michael Giberson “Scientists tend to ‘desist’ from scientific research upon marriage, just like criminals desist from crime upon marriage.” (From ScienceCareer.org, found via Truck and Barter.)
Michael Giberson Ray Gifford offers a realist’s prognostication on the likely effects of network neutrality: only the lawyers win. Not the end of the world if network neutrality laws pass, not the end of the world if they fail to pass. Only, if network neutrality becomes law, low latency high-speed service will be routed through …
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Michael Giberson Via Virginia Postrel, I see Daniel Drezner is upset with the Bono-voiced World Cup ads running on ESPN. Drezner apparently believes, contrary to implications of the ad, that soccer can’t in fact stop war. I appreciate his sentiment, especially the point urged in his title: Will Bono Please Be Quiet, Please? (As a …
World Cup Runneth Over: Soccer, War, Peace, and Baghdad Burning Read More »
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