Author: Nob Akimoto

I figured this should have a reference on the front page. A post by fellow LBJ-alum David Wogan on the Scientific American blog examining the claims made in the NPR piece linked by Ethan.

So a chat with Mr. Kain today made me think that it might be fun to do an online PnP campaign (Pathfinder ruleset, setting would likely be my specific campaign setting of Avlis) and...

There’s a lot of commentary wandering around as it’s revealed Greek youth are 6x more likely to be unemployed (using ILO measures) than those in Germany. The truly staggering gap in unemployment rates is...

A fantastic overview of the new “Oversight of Sensitive Military Operations Act” now in committee in the House of Representatives. Some more developed thoughts on this overall subject later.

A speech by Harold Koh at the Oxford Union. Transcript available at Lawfare. I found it interesting and sort of looks into the logic behind the Obama Administration’s CT policy writ large.

There’s been a bit of buzz about how the advent of 3D Printing might bring down the concept of traditional gun control. While it’s understandable for American publications and audiences to be concerned about...

I’m going to leave the political dimensions regarding the prognosticating about the Medicaid study to my co-blogger Elias, and instead think about the importance of statistical literacy among bloggers. Over the past 18 months...

…is evidently Excel. CEPR has a new report out that Reinhart and Rogoff’s infamous This Time it’s Different was based on a piece of bad arithmetic. We also know that Excel was at least...

So says a new report from the Constitution Project. As reported by Ritika Singh at Lawfare.

Going to take advantage of the higher education symposium to post another reminder of my Crowd-Funding project. The confluence of rising costs in higher education and outdated immigration standards make it a challenge to...

Conor appears to think he speaks on behalf of these so-called progressives. I find in general these attempts to conceptualize so broadly to be pointless. Debate is only important insofar as we have individual characteristics....

There used to be a time when anarchists stood for something noble. The 19th century anarchists and syndicalists were fighting against systems which systematized human oppression and misery. They rejected the statism inherent in...

Just as an FYI, this is evidently PlayHaven’s take on the termination of one of the employees involved in the PyCon joke incident. Quote: PlayHaven CEO Andy Wang wrote that the company is dedicated...

But I think Alice Marwick’s piece at Wired is a great summation of why the Richards case has garnered a certain reaction both from feminists and well “Men’s Rights Activists”.

We’re now a quarter of the way through 2013, and I realized that I never got around to writing my power transition post I meant to do six months ago.  The long and short...

Or so says a new piece by Daniel Klaidman. This seems to generally track with how I viewed the Brennan nomination. Now let’s see how this combines with attempts to revise the AUMF or...

Jason started an interesting discussion in off the cuff, so I’d like to use an FP post to answer it. The reason you don’t see active takeovers or stock holding en masse as a...

Early week plug. Still working on a crowd-sourcing of my master’s degree. Give a little bit (how’s $5? $10? Get a personalized postcard!) Also, ideas on how to improve the pitch and make a...

…that this dude formed the “White Student Union” at Towson University? Between the coach/baseball program firing and this whack job, one wonders if there’s something in the water.