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14 Sep 2009, 8:21 am
The WSJ talks about nudges for making society better (and making money for businesses): Since April 2008, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District has told 35,000 customers in their monthly bills how their energy use compares with neighbors’, and with the district’s most-efficient customers. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 4:17 am
Sandra Day O’Connor helps produce a video game. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 11:55 am
Sez Gabrielle Spiegel, president of the AHA: "The whole influence of poststructuralist and postmodernist historiography is receding," she said. [read post]
5 Dec 2008, 1:24 pm
The Times has a review. [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 10:08 am
In the mail: updates for the following datasets: 4685 Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2006 Parts 3 and 4 added: DS3: Appellate Terminations Data, 2006 DS4: Appellate Pending Data, 2006 9824 Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities, 1990-1991: [United States] [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 8:43 am
A decade ago, it was fairly common for students of law and courts to lament the lack of interdisciplinary communication between political scientists, law professors, and scholars from other disciplines (e.g., Cross 1997; Rosenberg 2000). [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 6:09 pm by jly
Greyhound racing is ending in Wisconsin and there are a lot of wonderful dogs who need to be placed. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 1:37 pm
An interesting video is provided below which shows a professor demonstrating how easy it is to hack a voting machine and steal votes. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 7:56 am
Two new data sources, one worth bookmarking: Criminal Victimization, 2006 Motoring Offences and Breath Test Statistics, England and Wales 2005 [read post]
7 May 2008, 6:12 am
The Lusitania was torpedoed today in 1915, killing 1198 people and eventually leading to US involvement in World War I. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 5:46 pm
I’ve never heard Knoxville referred to as “the couch”, but the NYT hits all the hight points in today’s 36 Hours review. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 7:28 am
The Ali G translator. [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 2:11 pm
The SEC is getting a makeover, called the “Restacking Project”. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 3:31 pm
Wolfe, Wojtek Mackiewicz. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 4:04 pm
More fuel for the fire, by Jim Gibson in the latest Law and Society Review: A new era has emerged in the ways in which candidates for state judicial office campaign. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 7:16 pm
On the Class Bias in Higher Education Blog Jeff Harrison posts reflections on how Gladwell’s “Outliers” applies to education and provides a personal experience: I was reminded how institutionalized the “special requests” have become when I visited my son’s school to pick him up after an exam that ended at 11 AM. [read post]