The English jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham defined the language of lawyers as “literary garbage.” He argued that plain legal language is essential for proper governance. This idea of simplicity of legal texts was the [...]

Last June, Samsung and Acer started to produce the first commercial Chromebooks. What’s this new oddity “made by Google?” The devices comprise a distinct class of personal computer falling between a pure cloud client and [...]

Are you looking forward to the Christmas holidays? Actually there isn’t too much time left: from last Sunday we are already in the Advent season. Advent (from the Latin word adventus meaning “coming”) is a [...]