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...

Spooky Golightly

by | Apr 7, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Mirth

from The New York Post Hollywood legend Audrey Hepburn was a WWII resistance spy By Reed Tucker She was one of Hollywood’s most celebrated actresses. But Audrey Hepburn had a role that few knew about: spy. And unlike the characters that she portrayed on screen,...