Daily Archives: June 7, 2020

This Is Your Brain on Sports: The Science of Underdogs, the Value of Rivalry, and What We Can Learn from the T-Shirt Cannon

Here are some highlights from this book: * We like our signal-callers handsome. The quarterback may not have existed before Camp and his contemporaries descended upon the Massasoit House 135 years ago, but his brainchild has since evolved into the … Continue reading

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Defenders of the Race: Jewish Doctors and Race Science in Fin-de-Siècle Europe

Here are some highlights from this 1994 book: * In Germany, for example, Jews went from being called and calling themselves Jews in the eighteenth century, to Israelites in the nineteenth, to German Citizens of the Mosaic Faith into the … Continue reading

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Hot New Comic Pete Drysdale

When the covid-19 pandemic hit, I wondered how it would affect Westfield Shopping malls which I thought were operated by the Lowy family. Turns out they sold out last year. From the Australian Financial Review March 1, 2020: Another Australian-American … Continue reading

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