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| Date | Title | Body |
|---|---|---|
| 10 hours 41 min ago | When that Kate Upton GIF |
When that Kate Upton GIF first started hitting these boards, I was honing my hand-eye coordination like two or three times a day. |
| 1 week 16 hours ago | Actually, we're so smart that |
Actually, we're so smart that we host extended blog posts giving nuanced statistical arguments for why unitary measures of intelligence are flawed. |
| 1 week 3 days ago | All else equal, give the MVP to the best player in basketball |
The Thunder without Durant are a better team than the Heat without LeBron. I'll take Westbrook, Harden, and Ibaka over Wade, Chalmers, and Bosh, and the remaining Thunder roster is better than the remaining Heat roster. As for the Tony Parker argument, I agree that he's a great player who had a great year, and that the Spurs wouldn't be nearly the team they are without him. But the exact same can be said about LeBron, and LeBron's simply a better player: he plays more minutes, he scores more and more efficiently, and his impact on the game offensively, defensively, and on the glass far exceeds Parker's. |
| 1 week 3 days ago | "...that was a first." |
Not to take this too literally or to bring up bad memories for Pistons fans, but there was that whole game 5 thing. Granted, Bron has crapped the bed in a few very big series, but he has more than his share of unbelievable late-game performances under his belt. |
| 1 week 3 days ago | Misunderstanding |
The fact that my tribe is better than your tribe is a premise, not a conclusion. |
| 1 week 3 days ago | Risk assessment and the acceptance of costs |
The danger of motorized travel is a bad example -- we accept >30,000 annual deaths and many more injuries as the basic cost of getting around. The extent to which this fails to generate any society-wide sense of urgency is absolutely crazy. It's very likely that technological improvements will at some point yield far, far less deadly transportation systems, and that the societies that use them will look back in bafflement at the human costs we used to take for granted. My point: we accept certain risk levels that make absolutely no sense, and we do so out of misplaced emotional reactions (consider how we would react to 300 annual deaths from domestic terrorism, and compare to how we react to traffic deaths). The proper response to the risks posed by football injury isn't to shrug, say "Man up, shit happens," and continue business as usual. The proper response is to take a careful inventory of the actual human risks, and to see if it makes sense to accept them upon reflection. Very loose analogies to painting and driving are not particularly helpful in this task. |
| 2 weeks 4 days ago | While clearly not as |
While clearly not as tremendous an academic institution as Michigan, OSU is generally considered to be somewhere in the top 50-100 universities in the world. That's at least sort of tremendous. |
| 2 weeks 6 days ago | Library pals |
I think I know what buckstachioed gentleman Mr. Baugh sits next to at the library when he composes his tweets. |
| 3 weeks 12 hours ago | Miranda Sanford needs to step |
Miranda Sanford needs to step up her grammar game. |
| 3 weeks 2 days ago | Intelligence scales |
[Henry Farrell, Duncan Watts, Steven Pinker, ...] > Malcolm Gladwell > expectation of random internet person |
