Tyra’s college application essay on ‘Friday Night Lights’ by Jon Weisman Dodger Thoughts

Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: “elusive and sadly ephemeral” Interview by The A.V. Club

The Math of Love: Calculating the Odds of Finding Your Soulmate by Maria Popova Brain Pickings

Yours vs. Mine by Dustin Curtis Svbtle Featured

Ten Virtues for the Modern Age Resilience, empathy, patience, sacrifice, politeness, humor, self-awareness, forgiveness, hope, confidence.

Frank Chimero × Blog × All Kinds of Awesome “the catalyst for a conversation with a child that starts with “What’s that?” and ends with “That’s awesome.””

The Natural: A Timely Review by Patrick Dubuque NotGraphs Baseball

The Trouble with Wall Street by Michael Lewis “The ultimate goal should be to create institutions so dull and easy to understand that, when a young man who works for one of them walks into a publisher’s office and offers to write up his experiences, the publisher looks at him blankly and asks, ‘Why would […]

Happy Meals by Andrew Sullivan The Dish

Just How Much Is Sports Fandom Like Religion? – Michael Serazio – The Atlantic “Theological justifications are really just incidental; what matters is that through our faith in these common artifacts, community is forged.”