You Might Like… Ten Temptations to Amusement on Lawyers, Sloths, Virginity, Hume, Lutefisk, and More.

This is a post in a series appearing each Friday, setting out some articles, videos, podcasts and the like that contributors at Slaw are enjoying and that you might find interesting. The articles tend to be longer than blog posts and shorter than books, just right for that stolen half hour on the weekend. It’s also likely that most of them won’t be about law — just right for etc.

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Cracked.com – 7 Brilliant Movie Lawyers (Who Suck at Their Job) – Chris Radomile – Only 7? Surely our readers can come up with another bunch to bulk up the list. This critique goes into some detail about specific mis-lawyering points in the flicks.

New York Times – Can Game Theory Predict When Iran Will Get the Bomb? – Clive Thompson – A piece about the NYU prof and game theorist, the wonderfully named Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, who for decades has been developing a computer program "that predicts the outcome of any situation in which parties can be described as trying to persuade or coerce one another." Sounds like something that could be useful in law.

Businessweek – Correlation or Causation? – Vali Chandrasekaran – Amusing charts aligning the development of unlikely pairs of phenomena. E.g. "Is Facebook driving the Greek debt crisis?"

Smithsonian Magazine – Scandinavians’ Strange Holiday Lutefisk Tradition – Erica Janik – "Lye-soaked cod drenched in melted butter." Much as I like me a good piece of cod, I'd have to go with the Scandinavian gravlax tradition by preference.

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