Archive for August, 2008
Sites and course pages
For new STU students, welcome to law school!
My home page is at http://nathenson.org.
This site, digital garbage, is my academic blog on law and technology.
I also run a personal blog at http://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 law library.
UPDATE: Lexis is [...]
Physics and rap music
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 [...]
Pittsburgh zoo
We recently visited the Pittsburgh Zoo. Here’s a baby tiger born recently at the zoo:
Visitor
Earlier this summer, a pregnant dove set up shop on a windowsill. We watched the hatchlings outside our bedroom window for weeks before mother and babies went off on their own. Doves come back from time to time, and I like to think this is one of the babies born this summer.
Update: a [...]
Mineo’s Pizza
I’m originally from Pittsburgh, having moved to South Florida a few years ago. Of the things I miss from Pittsburgh — or in Pittsburghese, “Picksburgh” — I especially miss its great pizza joints, such as Vincent’s Pizza Park on Ardmore Blvd. (famous for their huuuge pies).
Particularly great are three pizza places within two [...]
Boredom and information overload
There’s more to boredom than meets the eye. In an article discussing research about the psychology of boredom, the New York Times writes that sometimes boredom can be a positive thing, allowing the brain time to work through things:
[B]oredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts [...]
