December 2011
1 post
“For some reason unknown to science, love of baseball and love of Bruce stem from...”
– via Baseball Insider: Bruce and Baseball - Washingtonpost.com
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
Rediscovering Rock N' Jock →
“We need to get back to this place where fun supersedes logistics.”
WatchI wish I could play ball for this team.
“A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.”
– Earl Wilson
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
3 posts
Beyond the Box Tops - Paul Westerberg on Alex... →
“It was some years back, the last time I saw Alex Chilton. We miraculously bumped into each other one autumn evening in New York, he in a Memphis Minnie T-shirt, with take-out Thai, en route to his hotel. He invited me along to watch the World Series on TV, and I immediately discarded whatever flimsy obligation I may have had. We watched baseball, talked and laughed, especially about...
May 2011
6 posts
The truth wears off: The decline effect and the... →
My first published paper might be on not finding anything at all. Again and again and again and again and again. That is, if it even gets to the publishing desk at all.
“Well, this year I’m told the team did well because one pitcher had a fine...”
– Charles William Elliot, President of Harvard University from 1869-1909
April 2011
2 posts
“Remember when teachers, public employees, the National Science Foundation,...”
March 2011
6 posts
The Adventures of Chooch & Chooch & Chooch →
Carlos Ruiz’s wife just had a baby. He was named Carlos after his daddy and just like his eight-year-old brother. Congrats to Mama Chooch and the entire Chooch family!
“What I needed was not so much to be loved, as to love.”
– Jonathan Richman
February 2011
5 posts
WatchIt’s official. I am from the most Italian American part of the country. The double yellow lines on the streets of Town Plot are painted green, white, and red. Mamma mia! I am homesick.
“Sometimes people forget how hard it is to win. Sometimes they forget everything...”
– Charlie Manuel
A MIXTAPE FOR CHARLIE MANUEL, WITH ENDLESS LOVE... →
January 2011
6 posts
Addressing the Bias Problem - Jonathan Schooler →
“One partial solution would be the development of an open repository of scientific findings that encourages researchers to rigorously log their methodology and predictions beforehand, and then report all of their results regardless of outcomes afterward. Such an open access repository of scientific findings might help to reduce the bias of the peer review process, and better enable us...
Scoring Position: Ladies' Viewpoints on the... →
Nadine and I are babes that love baseball.
December 2010
6 posts
False Nostalgia: How VH1 Ruined the Taste of a... →
“The recent past became nearer, even as it became flatter and context-free. A whole generation grew up with an utterly false nostalgia for culture products it had never consumed—and nobody even remembered that they hadn’t.”
How do I study this phenomenon?
Willing And Able - Helene Smith
“Those fat Yankees fans will be eating flapjacks this morning. Drowning their...”
– Angelo Cataldi on the 610 WIP Morning Show
“Neuroscience reads brains, not minds. The mind, while completely enabled by the...”
– Michael Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain
November 2010
17 posts
“Evolution does not always lead to perfection or even the most efficient design....”
– P.W. Singer, Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster...”
– Isaac Asimov
“Suckin’ on chili dogs outside the Tastee Freez.”
Bobby Orr - Mente
“The greatest hockey...
“Damn Gina!”
– Martin, psych grad student who works with our lab, using his name to his wit’s advantage
