FASTER, PLEASE: Contact lens with built-in telescope could help people with blinding disease.

FASTER, PLEASE: Solar-Powered Membrane Separates Water Into Hydrogen and Oxygen Without Exploding. “The film has other benefits too. Other research groups have also developed solar powered water-splitters, but those tend to have a very short shelf life, breaking down quickly. In addition to not exploding (always good) the new coating is transparent, which helps get sunlight to the leaf, and it is also rust-resistant, meaning that the material can work for a long time without degrading.”

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YOU DON’T WANT TO COME TO THE ATTENTION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OR ITS MEDIA SERVANTS: Ferguson home values are plummeting, and residents are feeling the pain: Down nearly 50 percent since Michael Brown’s death, new data show. A lot of people are seeing their life savings wiped out, but at least Obama got a base-activating issue.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Pinson Valley teacher charged with sexual contact with student. “According to the school’s website, Perry taught English. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 2014 in secondary education with a concentration in English language arts from Jacksonville State University. Her biography states this was her first year as a teacher.”

Related: The female teachers getting away with sexual abuse: Teaching assistant Emma Webb escaped jail for having sex with two pupils – and she’s not the only female teacher being handed lenient sentences by the courts.

I blame our pervasive modern culture of female sexual entitlement.

I WAS GOING TO FLY MY LEARJET TO NOVA SCOTIA: Europe braces for ‘unprecedented’ power issues from solar eclipse.

Europe’s power operators are bracing for potential disruption from the solar eclipse expected Friday, which will knock out almost all solar-generated electricity in an “unprecedented” test for the network.

“The risk of an incident cannot be completely ruled out,” the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (Entso-e) said recently, as 100 times more power is generated from the sun now than during the last eclipse in 1999.

“Solar eclipses have happened before but with the increase of installed photovoltaic energy generation, the risk of an incident could be serious without appropriate countermeasures,” the group said.

“For the first time this is expected to have a relevant impact on the secure operation of the European power system,” warned Entso-e.

Well, goody. See, the problem with wind and solar is that since they’re intermittent, you basically need as much backup power as you’d need generating capacity without wind and solar, or else you risk shortfalls.

THE BUTTHURT IS STRONG: The left’s angry response to Netanyahu’s victory.

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LAW TEACHING: Michele Pistone writes:

I am hosting the Igniting Law Teaching conference again this year at American University Washington College of Law. It is Friday, March 20 from 9:00-5:00 EST and will be available for live webcast. I was wondering if you would publicize it on Instapundit.

The conference is designed in reaction to the need to make changes in legal education. It is styled like a TEDx conference, so it is quite different from other law school conferences. The focus of the conference is law school pedagogy and will feature talks on lots of topics that are relevant to law professors and the push to modernize what and how law is taught. Topics include learning theory as it applies to legal education, incorporating practical lawyering skills and values into doctrinal courses, using online technologies to deepen learning, and a lot more. In fact, your colleague, Paula Schaefer, is speaking on Tips for Finding Professionalism Lessons Hiding in Plain Sight in Every Casebook.

Each talk is 10 minutes or less, so faculty members can tune in for a few talks and then watch others when they are available online at the LegalED site.

Enjoy!

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: New ABA Rules on Reporting School-Funded Jobs Could Drop Some Law Schools’ U.S. News Ranking. Fine with me. The less cheating there is, the better the UT College Of Law will do.

TRANSPARENCY: White House Celebrates National Freedom Of Information Day By Making Office Of The Administration Completely UnFOIA-able.

HIBERNOPHOBIC HATE SPEECH at the Boston Globe. One day after a new editor took charge to impose standards at the Boston Globe’s beleaguered Boston.com, the website is drawing fire again — this time for posting a story that stated, ‘Every day is a drunk day in Southie.'”

THEY’RE GREAT CARS, but gold or not, I just don’t care for the looks of the Nissan GT-R.

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WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Incredible New 3D Printing Technique Looks Like Sci-Fi.

MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY: AP: U.S. Sets New Record For Denying, Censoring Access To Government Files.

LARRY TRIBE: EPA ‘burning the Constitution’ with carbon rules, Harvard scholar says.

WHERE HIS SYMPATHIES LIE: Obama Won’t Congratulate Bibi — But He Congratulated Erdogan, Sisi, Rouhani … and Putin!

ROGER SIMON: Why Netanyahu’s Victory Augurs Well for Republicans in 2016. “And this all happened despite Obama’s get-out-the-vote henchmen being sent over to Israel – with a yet unclear degree of administration backing – to support the Zionist Union (i. e. Labor Party) opposition to Likud with all their modern electoral techniques that were so successful in 2012. This makes their failure all the more glaring – and disturbing to the administration. Another loser in all this is Obama’s Iran deal, assuming that would ever happen anyway. It makes the 47 senators who sent an open letter to Khamenei seem more than ever the deliverers of simple truth.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 678.