Policing Counterfeits on eBay
Charles R. Macedo reflects on the Tiffany v. eBay case.
Vague Measurements
Who decides how long a metre is?
Bridges, and What They Can Teach Us
Professor David Blockely on the lessons he believes the wider world can learn from bridge-building.
Sliced Bread 2.0
Dennis Baron evaluates the success of the internet.
Bioethics and Healthcare
An excerpt from Worst Case Bioethics.
Waiting for the Supreme Court to Decide Bilski
Recommended interim steps to be implemented in patent prosecution involving business-related and computer-related inventions in order to minimize risk for the future and increase the likelihood of a patent issuing and ultimately being enforceable down the road.
Will the iPad Change Your Life?
A look at the iPad.
Multitasking: Learning to Teach and Text at the Same Time
Dennis Baron looks at multitasking.
Eight reasons to unfriend someone on Facebook
If you haven’t already heard, ‘unfriend’ is the New Oxford American Dictionary ‘Word of the Year’. In honor of this announcement, I surveyed Facebook users across the country about why they would choose to unfriend someone. The results ranged from robots and rages, to baby photos and politics.
Happy Belated 40th Birthday To The Internet!
Dennis Baron wishes the internet a happy birthday!
Two thumbs up?
Researchers predict that by 2013 we’ll all be tweeting
Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, talks about whether or not we’ll all be authors by 2013.
Golgi: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Golgi: A Biography of the Founder of Modern Neuroscience.
Blogging For Pay
Dennis Baron, author of A Better Pencil, looks at the new FTC regulations regarding bloggers.
Congratulations to Charles Kao
OUP congratulates Charles Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith on their Nobel Prize.
Confronting Climate Collapse
An excerpt from Down to the Wire.
Communication Power
How are communication and power related?