I’ve been telling my family for months about the upcoming Star Trek movie, a reboot that will tell the story about how the Enterprise crew gets together. As one might expect, my non-Trek family was not impressed, at least until they saw the new advertisement shown during yesterday’s Superbowl. Afterwards, nearly everybody was ready to […]
When engaging in legal analysis, avoid being conclusory. As I tell my 1Ls, always follow the advice of Dorothy from the song Follow the Yellow-Brick Road (emphasis added): If ever, oh ever, a Wiz there was the Wizard of Oz is one because Because, because, because, because, because Because of the wonderful things he does. […]
The new Star Trek trailer has had mixed reviews on the internet. Me, I think it’s frakking awesome. Sure, the trailer is mostly action, but that’s ok. It’s is trying to attract an audience beyond the pointy-ears-and-forehead-ridges wearing set, and does so successfully. Based on watching the trailer (repeatedly) and reading around the web (see […]
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 […]
