Holy levitating Slinky! “In this series of slow motion clips, you can see that if you hold a Slinky by one end and drop it, the bottom end doesn’t actually move until the top end catches up with it.”

isaach well played, internet. http://t.co/eebUJmG9

Reinforcement sensitivity theory – Wikipedia

Quick study: Satoshi Kanazawa on intelligence: The disadvantage of smarts | The Economist “Most of the problems that we have to solve today—how to excel in school, how to find jobs, how to do virtually everything on a computer—are evolutionarily novel. So intelligent people do well in almost every sphere of modern life, except for […]

Team Spirit: The New Yorker Adam Gopnik writes about Olympic nationalistic pride. “Sports are about human character inasmuch, and only inasmuch, as they show that you can master anything with enough effort. Seen in this light, our urge to give the full measure of our national devotion to the synchronized swimmers—and the shot-putters and even […]

baseballcrank Our laws in as many areas as possible should be simple, easily understood & vigorously enforced.

NBA TV documentary on the Dream Team Jason Kottke, kottke.org

How Do We Respond To Images Of War? Andrew Sullivan, The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Old News: Dopamine and Baseball Carson Cistulli, NotGraphs Baseball

Oh God, So Funny It Hurts Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher