Same word. Different places? Different meanings. The word ‘quality’ means different things in America, Korea, Japan and China.

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Puck possesssion fancystats leading NHL teams to change their playing styles “But hockey’s version of the sabermetrics movement has shown the dump-and-chase maxim to be the natural analogue to baseball’s devotion to the sacrifice bunt — a needless waste of the game’s most precious commodity (possessions in hockey; outs in baseball) for a small benefit. […]

Ross Douthat: Please Argue With Better Atheists “There’s a masculinist tinge to some of the smugger atheists that I think deserves closer examination. And I think that affects the arguments of the more articulate theists to their detriment. What, after all, is the problem with arguing from experience, talking about one’s own soul’s longings? The […]

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