Month: July 2013

NYC Flash Mob

Future of home living

Future of home living is a cool exhibit about some new concepts coming to your home soon.

Creating dummies at scale

Utah State Sen. Aaron Osmond (R-South Jordan) has introduced a proposal to abolish compulsory education for children in his home state.

Last Days of Big Law

another bubble is popping.

There are currently between 150 and 250 firms in the United States that can claim membership in the club known as Big Law, the group of historically profitable firms that cater to the country’s largest corporations. The overwhelming majority of these still operate with a business model that assumes, at least implicitly, that clients will insist upon the best legal talent instead of the best bargain for legal talent. That assumption has become rickety. Within the next 10 years or so, there will be at most 20 to 25 firms that can operate this way—the firms whose clients have so many billions of $ riding on their legal work that they can truly spend without limit. The other 200 firms will have to reinvent themselves or disappear.

Star Trek regresses

the new star trek is a big step backwards in many ways, including its treatment of women. jj abrahams is an awful hack, so this isn’t surprising.

Wall Street regulation

There is an alternative to financial regulation: did you know that a cannon is pointed at wall street at all times? Next time wall street pummels the economy, why not pummel it?

Solving really cold cases

i find crime shows to be some of the biggest snoozefests around, but i’d watch this:

paleopathology practitioners worldwide are making startling discoveries. In December 2012, a team of scientists published results from an examination of the mummy of Pharaoh Ramses III, showing that he had died from having his throat slit, likely murdered in the so-called “harem conspiracy” of 1155 B.C.