Here’s an interesting number: $11,315,000,000,000. That’s the new limit on public debt proposed by today’s draft of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. That’s a pretty big number, slightly over (slightly?) 11 trillion dollars. Here’s another one: 243,112,609-1. The Guardian reports that researchers have found the largest-yet Mersenne prime, a number with nearly 13 […]
For new STU students, welcome to law school! My home page is at https://nathenson.org. This site, digital garbage, is my academic blog on law and technology. I also run a personal blog at https://nathenson.org/blog. Course pages are available to STU students through Blackboard at http://webcourses.lexisnexis.com. You’ll need to get your Lexis ID from the […]
Geek alert: the Large Hadron Collider (“LHC”), making its debut this year, is the world’s largest particle accelerator. Built by CERN (the European Center for Nuclear Research), the LHC is a 27 km particle accelerator near Geneva, running through both France and Switzerland. As noted in the NYT, the LHC “will smash together subatomic particles […]
We recently visited the Pittsburgh Zoo. Here’s a baby tiger born recently at the zoo:
