Uranium Super Snake Yeah!

by | Jul 19, 2019 | Mirth, Weirdness

from The Independent Radioactive uranium, whiskey and rattlesnake found in stolen car pulled over by police Stephen Jennings, 40, told officers he was trying to create a ‘super snake’ by Emma Snaith Stephen Jennings, 40, was found with a rattlesnake, uranium, a gun...

The Forever Wrong

by | May 22, 2019 | Mirth

from The Atlantic The Peculiar Blindness of Experts Credentialed authorities are comically bad at predicting the future. But reliable forecasting is possible. by DAVID EPSTEIN NA KIM The bet was on, and it was over the fate of humanity. On one side was the Stanford...

Baseball Is Dead. (Yeah, right!)

by | Apr 8, 2019 | Mirth

from The Guardian Why baseball spent more than $1bn on three players in a month Three of the richest contracts in sports history would appear to bust the baseball-is-dying narrative, but underlying trends have exposed a rot within the mechanics of the sport’s...