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Credit where credit is due
A trademark Brooks turnaround in today's column: "...big gaps in educational attainment are present at age 5. Some children are bathed in an atmosphere…
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Access-Right: An Inquiry Into the Problem of Digital Copyright Law
I have just completed the draft of my extended study on copyright law, where I examine issues of access, access to information and digital copyright law. At bot…
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The End of History on Acid
David Brooks in Friday's Times: "Obama’s tone was serious. But he pulled out his “this is our moment” rhetoric and offered visions of a world transform…
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Apply to Be a CIS Non-Resident Fellow 2008-2009 Academic Year
The Center for Internet and Society is now accepting applications for the 2008-2009 Non- Residential Fellowship Program. CIS Non-Residential Fellows work indep…
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a universal language
Jeff Goldfien in the ADRNC Newsletter: "I was struck by a statement by Senator Obama, reported in the press yesterday, responding to an accusation by conse…
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Keeping Up With The Joneses
From Elizabeth Gudrais' cover story in Harvard Magazine (hat tip to Minh): "The United States is becoming even more unequal as income becomes more conc…
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J.B. White On Advertising
J.B. White, my former professor, has written a powerful essay (pages 98-103) on the evils of reducing the human experience to mere economics. Here is an excerp…
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More like Monkeys
Roy Baumeister in Psychology Today: "Economists think that if people were true to financial logic, they would act more like monkeys..." "Keith C…
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CIS at Tres Agaves
The CIS team tied for third place against Berkeley's Law and Technology Group at EFF's 18th Birthday Celebration/Pub Trivia night.…
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A trillion trillion possibilities
David Brooks in today's New York Times: "Studies designed to link specific genes to behavior have failed to find anything larger than very small associ…
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Gmailosaurus
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…
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Survey of Eco / Green Intellectual Property
With increased interest in global warming, green building and ecologically friendly behaviors, I initially observed that there was fairly little chatter concern…