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That’s the question asked by Kal Raustiala and Chris Sprigman in a guest post at the Freakonomics blog. Given the distinct advantage an offensive or defensive strategy confers on a team, why hasn’t there been a serious attempt to copyright these innovations so that other teams cannot use them? The first question, of course, is [...]
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Today we take these words for granted, along with the notion that people have the right to overthrow a tyrannical government and decide for themselves how they would like to be governed. And even while the ideas were not utterly original at the time, the formal declaration of them and the subsequent revolution that was [...]
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That’s essentially the claim of this paper (via Techdirt) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel. Baldwin and von Hippel suggest that it is no longer clear that the ‘devil’s bargain’ (i.e. the granting of monopoly rights in order to incentives a firm to create) is on balance beneficial and fosters innovation: The work [...]
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Over lunch the other day, Noah mentioned this really interesting product that was announced at CES. It’s called Airnergy and it somehow harvests the energy emitted by nearby WiFi signals and converts it into electricity that can be used to power and recharge various devices. It reminded me of a concept I’ve been toying with [...]
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Tyler Cowen points to a fascinating article from 2003 about the depths of Dolphin intelligence: At the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
