Protecting the Least of These: A New Approach to Child Pornography Pandering Provisions

The pandering of child pornography - selling, distributing, or conveying the impression that one possesses sexually graphic images of children for sale or distribution - facilitates actual harm to children, such as molestation. Yet legislative attempts to curb pandering inevitably implicate concerns about panderers\u27 First Amendment rights. This Note argues that in balancing the vulnerability of children against the power of the First Amendment, the law must shift to focus more on the subject of this grievous harm - children. This approach will appropriately extend protection to a subset of the population that is least able to protect itself

Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (Pacific Southwest): Northern anchovy

Three genetically distinct groups: British Columbia to northern California, Southern California to the northern Baja peninsula, and central and southern Baja California. (PDF contains 21 pages

Craig on the Resurrection: A Defense

This article is a rebuttal to Robert G. Cavin and Carlos A. Colombetti’s article, “Assessing the Resurrection Hypothesis: Problems with Craig’s Inference to the Best Explanation,” which argues that the Standard Model of current particle physics entails that non-physical things (like a supernatural God or a supernaturally resurrected body) can have no causal contact with the physical universe. As such, they argue that William Lane Craig’s resurrection hypothesis is not only incompatible with the notion of Jesus physically appearing to the disciples, but the resurrection hypothesis is significantly limited in both its explanatory scope and explanatory power. This article seeks to demonstrate why their use of the Standard Model does not logically entail a rejection of the physical resurrection of Jesus when considering the scope and limitations of science itself

Classical to quantum mapping for an unconventional phase transition in a three-dimensional classical dimer model

We study the transition between a Coulomb phase and a dimer crystal observed in numerical simulations of the three-dimensional classical dimer model, by mapping it to a quantum model of bosons in two dimensions. The quantum phase transition that results, from a superfluid to a Mott insulator at fractional filling, belongs to a class that cannot be described within the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson paradigm. Using a second mapping, to a dual model of vortices, we show that the long-wavelength physics near the transition is described by a U(1) gauge theory with SU(2) matter fields.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figures; v2: added appendi

Employment Instability and High Unemployment Rates

macroeconomics, unemployment

The Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Job Search

macroeconomics, unemployment insurance, job search

Comment on the Nature of the Ds1∗(2710)D_{s1}^*(2710) and DsJ∗(2860)D_{sJ}^*(2860) Mesons

Two charm-strange mesons, the $D_{s1}^*(2710)$ and the $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$, have recently been observed by several experiments. There has been speculation in the literature that the $D_{s1}^*(2710)$ is the $2^3S_1(c\bar{s})$ state and the $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$ is the $1^3D_1(c\bar{s})$ state. In this paper we explore this and other explanations in the context of the relativized quark model and the pseudoscalar emission decay model. We conclude that the $D_{s1}^*(2710)$ is most likely the $1^3D_1 (c\bar{s})$ state and the $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$ is most likely the $1^3D_3 (c\bar{s})$ state with the $1D_2$ resonances also contributing to the observed signals and explaining the observed ratios of branching ratios to $D^*K$ and $DK$ final states. We point out that measuring the $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$ spin can support or eliminate this explanation and that there are six excited $D_s$ states in this mass region; the $2^3S_1$, $2^1S_0$, $1^3D_1$, $1^3D_3$ and two $1D_2$ states. Observing some of the missing states would help confirm the nature of the $D_{s1}^*(2710)$ and the $D_{sJ}^*(2860)$ states.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure