Soccer: Passing Location Data – Arctic Ice Hockey How successful passes are at different spots on the field.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky
Researcher’s Findings in the Amazon Pit Him Against Noam Chomsky
Blog: Wired Science » Frontal Cortex: Cultivating Genius
Cultivating Genius Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science » Frontal Cortex
A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain: Scientific American
A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain: Scientific American “Yet for many mental disorders, such as autism and schizophrenia, a clear and consistent pathology of the brain has not been found. Why? Researchers have conjectured that the individual neurons are healthy, but they are connected with each other in an abnormal pattern. Unfortunately, […]
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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex. Mister Rogers kenarneson.tumblr.com
The connection between fan and inmate behavior – Grantland
The connection between fan and inmate behavior – Grantland Bill James
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What makes a great leader?
What makes a great leader? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What is the single strongest predictor of IQ?
What is the single strongest predictor of IQ? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree
Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War – By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
Top 10 Lessons of the Iraq War – By Stephen M. Walt | Foreign Policy
Is Christianism Breeding Atheists? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast
Is Christianism Breeding Atheists? – The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan – The Daily Beast So Christianity in America, as Ross Douthat’s excellent forthcoming book explains, is undermined by both the political temptation and degeneracy on the evangelical right and the failure of mainline Protestantism to advance a Christianity that is both at ease with […]
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: Should we blame the diabetes epidemic on lightbulbs?
Should we blame the diabetes epidemic on lightbulbs? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree
Blog: Wired Science: Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings
Man Successfully Flies With Custom-Built Bird Wings Daniela Hernandez, Wired Science
High-tech Sweden edges closer to becoming cashless society – The Washington Post
High-tech Sweden edges closer to becoming cashless society – The Washington Post
The fallacy of mood affiliation — Marginal Revolution
The fallacy of mood affiliation — Marginal Revolution
Rod Dreher » The Culture of Goldman Sachs
Rod Dreher » The Culture of Goldman Sachs That seems so obvious: the leadership elite within an organization will set the cultural tone for the organization, for better or for worse. But it seems so often ignored. Longtime readers know I am fond of citing one of the few things from political theory class that […]
‘Mister Rogers & Me’: Documentary honors children’s entertainer on his birthday – The Style Blog – The Washington Post
‘Mister Rogers & Me’: Documentary honors children’s entertainer on his birthday – The Style Blog – The Washington Post “I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.”
Rod Dreher » How To Become a One-Percenter
Rod Dreher » How To Become a One-Percenter It is damned difficult to be a truly independent thinker, and to account for the biases of your information environment, which includes all your social and professional cues. How’s that saying go? “Do not count on a man to see something when his livelihood depends on his […]
How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | World news | The Guardian
How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | World news | The Guardian
Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: Daily Dotes for March 19
Daily Dotes for March 19 Robert J. Baumann, NotGraphs Baseball