In conjunction with its endorsement of Senator Obama for President, today’s New York Times website has a great graphic illustrating its endorsements since 1860, alongside the winners for each year. For example, in 1888, the Times endorsed Grover Cleveland, who was defeated by Benjamin Harrison. Four years later, the Times again endorsed Cleveland, who won. […]
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 […]
