Prof. Steven Postrel has a good post over at Organization and Markets about why some entrepreneurial opportunities go unsatisfied. His example is why outdoor coffee tables have four legs instead of three, when its "obvious" that three legs would make the table rock less. He concludes with the following design...
CHICAGO -- The Women's Foodservice Forum hosted its Executive Women's Summit at the Peninsula Chicago hotel here last month. The summit provided senior executive women in the foodservice industry with the opportunity to advance their professional development goals in what the organization called a supportive, educational atmosphere. ...
Winners, Losers, and Microsoft: Competition and Antitrust in High Technology, by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis, Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 288 pages, $29.95 Any truthful history of the intersection between scholarship and public policy must resemble a tragicomedy. Usually, the scholars and their government disciples...
Eminent philosopher John R. Searle defends free speech, free inquiry, and the Enlightenment. In an intellectual scene filled with critics of the Enlightenment's quest for a coherent understanding of the way the world works, philosopher John R. Searle has become a high-profile defender and exemplar of Enlightenment methods....
Astronomer Sallie Baliunas on sunspots, global warming, and the benefits of privately funded science Interviewed by Virginia Postrel and Steven Postrel When she became an astronomer, Sallie Baliunas (baliunas@cfa.harvard.edu) never thought she'd be posing for magazine photos. But her life as a scientist hasn't been a matter of pure research....
Theoretical physicists are famous - or notorious - among their scientific colleagues for certain stereotypical traits: self-confidence shading into arrogance; a passion for reducing things to their essentials; a conviction that other fields could be easily mastered if they could afford to take the time; and an unwillingness to actually...
Theoretical physicists are famous - or notorious - among their scientific colleagues for certain stereotypical traits: self-confidence shading into arrogance; a passion for reducing things to their essentials; a conviction that other fields could be easily mastered if they could afford to take the time; and an unwillingness to actually...
Erica SchacterForward08-02-1996Spielberg Million Questioned.NEW YORK -- A Washington Glassman, is calling on Steven Spielberg to return to the U.S. treasury $1 million that was paid to the Holocaust memorial foundation he heads.Mr. Glassman's July 30 article is one of a number of critical comments on the $1 million check. Critics...
Back in the ninth grade, I was subjected to that bogeyman of all liberal intellectuals, a creationist biology teacher. For the most part, he followed the standard curriculum (which even in the mid-1970s was heavy on ecology and "environmental" science), but when it came time to discuss evolution, his heterodoxy...
Current debates over immigration pivot on the notion of the distinctly American character and culture: Can anyone, from anywhere, learn how to be an American? REASON asked a number of writers and scholars to recommend three books, with a couple of restrictions: one had to be a work of fiction,...
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