We hereby deliver an evening episode comprising role-playing, word pictures, and other podcasting art forms to convey critical information on, among other miscellany: Christian’s week of broken things, follow-up on lines, math and the book of true reasons, Mark Lemley’s article on “faith-based IP,” imagining Benjamin Franklin’s lightning powered potato peeler, iPhone copycats, and, morality aside, the death penalty’s stupidity, and the measure of a civilization.

This show’s links:

• The Wirecutter and the Sweet Home
• Oral Argument 55: Cronut Lines
• The documentary about people competing to win a truck, Hands on a Hardbody
• Oral Argument 51: The Faucet (guest John Pfaff)
• Euclid’s Elements
• About Paul Erdős
• Mark Lemley, Faith-Based Intellectual Property
• Frank Michelman, Takings
• Mark Lemley, The Surprising Virtues of Treating Trade Secrets as IP Rights
• International News Service v. Associated Press
• SCOTUSblog on Glossip v. Gross
• Associated Press, Utah Brings Back Firing Squads as Lethal Injection Drugs Remain Scarce
• About Cameron Todd Willingham
• Oral Argument 45: Sacrifice
• About “death-qualified” juries