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Cracked Human Consciousness

I never thought I'd quote cracked.com on my blog, but Geoff Shakespeare did such a good job I couldn't resist (careful, I've cleaned it up a bit her…

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Organizational Sociopaths

"Organisational sociopaths: rarely challenged, often promoted. Why?" by Richard J. Pech and Bret W. Slade "Organisations sometimes select and pr…

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Obama in Turkey

From President Obama's remarks to the Turkish Parliament yesterday: "I know there have been difficulties these last few years. I know that the trust th…

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Descendents of successful cooperators

David Brooks in today's NYT: "The question then becomes: What shapes moral emotions in the first place? The answer has long been evolution, but in rece…

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Rethinking the legal profession

Adam Cohen in the 4/1 NYT: "The economic downturn is hitting the legal world hard. American Lawyer is calling it “the fire this time” and warning that big…

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URAA Held Unconstitutional

We're thrilled to report the Court has upheld our challenge to the constitutionality of the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works. Tod…

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Free video interviews on Mediate.com

Very cool -- just learned that Mediate.com, the the premiere dispute resolution information portal, has opened its archive of video interviews for April.  They&…

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Copyright reservations, anyone?

Link to the Greenpeace website here with the actual poster (PDF) featuring the slogan "Not Only Banks, Save Also the Environment!"…

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Scrutinizing The URAA

Two years ago, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals broke new ground. It held the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works departed from the &q…

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Forcing our brains to evolve

Matt Harding, NPR's Weekend Edition today: "I believe globalization is forcing our brains to evolve. I've had the privilege to see a lot more of t…

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Did you know?

Interesting/humbling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY Supposedly this is a year old (though I'd never seen it before) so the numbers are even bi…