Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

STRING THEORY . . . "[S]tring theory, while dazzling, has outrun any conceivable experiment that could verify it—-there’s zero proof that it describes how nature works." At American Scholar, link from Arts & Letters Daily.

USEFUL GADGETS . . . Two I can endorse: "This year's killer app — pen and paper," at USA Today.

TRILLING . . . The one writer whom Hemingway envied, and why he matters. [The Times Literary Supplement]