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Well, here’s something you don’t see every day (baseball in Scientific American)

December 23, 2016

I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing you can count the number of baseball books that get a review in Scientific American on one hand. But here you go: their take on Brian Kenny’s Ahead of the Curve: Inside the Baseball Revolution. Since baseball is a metaphor for life, writer Steve Mirsky compares some […]

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* This sounds familiar somehow

June 11, 2008

Like the nerdy math genius at school who figures out a way to make a few bucks by crunching the numbers for sports betting, this piece from Scientific American warns about putting money down on a team that travels across the country. The results of the three-hour time difference can throw off the athletes’ circadian […]

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