The Open Market Blog

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/03/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features Vincent…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/03/2010

1. New moms are sharing and exchanging breast milk via social networking sites, despite warnings from the FDA. 2. An NYU professor has had…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 12/01/2010

1. An Air India plane almost crashed because the co-pilot adjusted his seat while the pilot was in the bathroom.  Airport security can’t stop…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/30/2010

1. Literary Review was going to give the 2010 Bad Sex in Fiction Award to Alastair Campbell–Tony Blair’s former Director of Communications–but they had…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/30/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features Greg…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/29/2010

1. Is Whipped Lightning—alcoholic whipped cream–going the way of Four Loko? 2. Nutria are aquatic rodents destroying Louisiana wetlands. So environmentalists are encouraging designers…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/23/2010

1. Mashupbreakdown.com visualizes GirlTalk’s latest sampling. Watch it to understand why music industry executives are not fans of mash-up artists. 2. It’s…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/22/2010

1. 56% of American homes now have an HD TV. 2. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev uses emoticons when he tweets. We’ve come a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/19/2010

1. Doctors now warn that Facebook stalking can cause asthma attacks. 2. An Irishman won €10 million in a libel suit after his…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/19/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features CEI's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/18/2010

1. A Miami doctor is suing a restaurant because the server failed to explain to him how to properly eat his grilled artichokes.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/17/2010

1. The Flagstaff, Arizona school district is going to start weighing elementary school children and sending overweight children home with notes. 2. A…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/16/2010

1. Do the non-religious really have greater brand loyalty? 2. The Janesville Gazette in Wisconsin is banning website comments on stories that involve…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/15/2010

1. Call of Duty: Black Ops lets you pretend to kill Fidel Castro. 2. Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers are using a…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/12/2010

1. A robot actress is getting rave reviews in a new Japanese play. James Cameron will never have to deal with “actors” again. 2.

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/12/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features CEI's…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/11/2010

1. Scientists have released genetically-modified mosquitoes in the Cayman Islands to fight dengue fever. 2. A proposed Alabama rule would prevent certified nurses…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/10/2010

1. A virtual Japanese pop-star performs “live” in front of crowds in the form of a 3D hologram. 2. Jill Priluck on why “…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/09/2010

1. Climate change activists are now creating robots to quash opposing arguments: the Twitter account Al_AGW is a “chatbot” set to reply automatically to…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/08/2010

1. A DNC Committeeman says the White House communications team is so bad they couldn’t sell cocaine to Charlie Sheen. And thus a new…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2010

1. The British are insisting that Guy Fawkes Day go green. 2. A British study concludes that Portugal’s drug decriminalization did not…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/05/2010

CEI Weekly is a compilation of articles and blog posts from CEI’s fellows and associates sent out via e-mail every Friday. This week features Fred…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/04/2010

1. A 12-year-old girl fooled her would-be kidnapper by telling him she’d dialed 911 on her IPod. 2. As San Francisco bans happy…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/03/2010

1. An EU court has ruled that fathers must be permitted to take “breast-feeding leave” an hour a day for the first 9 months…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/02/2010

1. Which Senators have the biggest egos? (Hint: you can tell by the size of their vanity walls.) 2. If the Twitter community was…

• By: Nicole Ciandella
• 11/01/2010

1. Is the Department of Defense developing a flying car? 2. Why does Esquire think that “Republicans have cornered the market on…