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Erik S. Knutsen (Queen's): Five Problems with Personal Injury Litigation (and What to Do About It!). From Three Monkeys Online, John Dodge on Kahlil Gibran and the Fall of the Prophet. Face Time: Marissa Mayer bucks the telecommuting trend. Is the Falkland Islands’ referendum a farce or a landmark moment? Yuri Milner says Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook will last 100 years. The new UN survey “My World” lets citizens vote on future development priorities. President Obama promised transparency and open government; he failed miserably — so why do Washington watchdog groups look the other way? Why drone paranoia works: If you want to stop something, scream, “Tyranny!” The liberation of South Africa was one of the great triumphs of the twentieth century; what happened next is one of the great disappointments of the twenty-first.