What?

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Ned Yost has been fired, with his team tied for the NL wild card spot and 13 days left in the season. Can't think of any precedent for something like this off the top of my head. I don't follow the Brewers at all so I...

Math is hard!

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No it isn't.Denver Broncos Coach Mike Shanahan was clearly having a Herm Edwards moment Sunday. You play to win the game, but Shanahan’s decision to go for a 2-point conversation.

The Soviet Missile Threat

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Pavel Podvig has a fabulous article in the Summer 2008 IS on the development of Soviet nuclear doctrine and force structure in the 1970s:The data presented here demonstrate that concerns about the U.S. “window of vulnerability,” which figured so prominently in U.S. political discussions of the...

Get Over It

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I'll have more on the general subject of the 2000 election because of a new book this week, but since I happened to catch the replay of Leslie Stahl's puffball.

The Ghost of Dusty Baker

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Idiotic. Hopefully it won't hurt the career of the UW alum. As (I think) Joe Sheehan argued earlier this year, I do think that managers have gotten a little too conservative about pitch counts, especially being to conscious of the arbitrary "100" number. I don't think...

Look out below

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Looks like Lehman is going to be liquidated. Merrill may be next.Remember all those glossy paens to investment bankers and hedge funds and CDOs and the frictionless magic of the.

David Foster Wallace

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This is unfortunate. A great writer....what to say? Didn't strike me as the type. He was one of my favorite contemporary writers; I didn't find his work depressing at all. ...I suppose this wouldn't be terribly different from learning that Roth had died, except that I...

700 Ton Robots Coming to Kill Me

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This is troubling:Carnegie Mellon University, whose team placed first at Urban Challenge, is partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world's largest ground robot: a 700-ton robo dump truck.

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