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The In Vitro Meat X-Prize
I have had a longstanding interest in non-animal based meat production. I do not believe humans will ever stop eating meat, but if meat could be made via stem…
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Redress and the expanding role of government under Obama
Krugman today: "...the Bushies didn’t have to worry about governing well and honestly. Even when they failed on the job (as they so often did), they could…
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E-Books: Who's E-Reading Over Your Shoulder?
Electronic books are a little like flying cars; always right about to catch on. Today the New York Times asks “Could book lovers finally be willing to switch f…
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Virtual Peace: Humanitarian Assistance Training Simulator
from virtualpeace.org: "Virtual Peace reflects a rich, interdisciplinary collaboration among experts and educators at the Duke-UNC Rotary Center for Inter…
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ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains
ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the m…
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Two Serious Problems With GPS-Aided Car Repossession
A recent Computerworld blog post shows how tone deaf we can be about the implications of new technology. A group of car dealers in Oregon apparently attached…
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My Buddies App On Facebook: Privacy Extortion?
UPDATE (Dec. 14, 2008): A user has created a Facebook Group against My Buddies. Meanwhile, as Beth says below, My Buddies has mutated into My Friends... I rec…
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Lexicon Resurrected
As announced yesterday and reported first by the Leaky Cauldron and then the Associated Press, RDR Books has withdrawn its appeal from the Court's decision…
Golan v. Holder - Government's Motion for Summary Judgment in the District Court
The Golan case was back before the District Court on remand to determine whether the URAA can survive First Amendment scrutiny. Each side cross-moved for summar…
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Updegrove on "A Standards Agenda For The Obama Administration"
Andy Updegrove of Gesmer Updegrove in Boston advises standards setting organizations on navigating the legal waters surrounding production of technical standard…
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James Gleick on the Google Book Search Deal
In case you have not seen it yet, here’s James Gleick’s OP-ED in the NYT, discussing the settlement between Google and book authors and publishers. The interest…
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Hearsay Culture selected as one of the ABA Journal’s Blawg 100 of 2008
I am thrilled and honored to announce that Hearsay Culture has been listed in the American Bar Association ("ABA") Journal's Blawg 100 of 2008, as…