Swans on Tea

Brains on the Line
NFL players’ Wonderlic scores, compiled according to position. Some of the highest scores belong to the offensive linemen, particularly tackle. I played offensive tackle in high school (ha!), but that had a lot more to do with being big and slow vs being smart. (and I wasn’t smart enough [...]

Rollersuit
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Science nabs lying fisherman
And he was found out without the need to pee in a cup. (Though it’s possible he may have done so anyway, for other reasons.)

via kottke
In celebration of Euro 2008, public prankster and more-than-fair soccer striker Rémi Gaillard made the following video of himself using the urban landscape as a soccer pitch. Gaillard scores goals into police vans, trash cans, open windows, etc. to the annoyance of his oblivious goalies.
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And that performance enhancing drugs are involved.
NY Times editorial. If Big Brown Wins, Racing Loses
This might sound obvious, but it’s worth stating: horse racing is nothing without the horse. And yet right now the horse’s best interests don’t seem to be paramount in racing.
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No one has seriously accused him [current trainer, Richard [...]

Tour de Donuts
The object? Consume as many donuts as you can during the “stages” to gain a time bonus. The final stage is a staggered start hill climb up the notorious Torrey Pines Hill. Each donut consumed is worth 30 seconds on the clock during the hill climb and first person to the top wins [...]

More video that doesn’t have George C. Scott saying, “My Groin!” The Science Of Ball To Groin at glumbert. (Some annoying ads — and nothing else — tend to pop up on the video) This time, tennis balls (the projectile, not the target), while last time it was a baseball, but with [...]

I just read that the Chicago Bulls won the NBA draft lottery, meaning that the team with the worst record did not gain the first overall pick in the draft. Color me shocked. It was termed a “surprise” in some stories. Maybe it was a surprise that they won it, but not [...]

A map of Armstrong and Aldrin’s moon walks, superimposed on a baseball diamond. One fly ball to right-center, and nothing else left the infield. Apparently Armstrong had a wicked slider and Aldrin a nasty cut fastball.
(A couple of years ago, a friend had the opportunity to meet Buzz Aldrin. My suggestion: [...]

YES
Zach Feinstein declares for the NBA draft. It’s free. The deadline for “early entry” declarations is 60 days prior to the draft (which is June 26), so if anyone desires to go this route, it’s too late for this year. (One has to wonder if it will remain free once [...]

Dance Boff to the muuuusic.
It’s May 8th, which is National Outdoor Fornication Day.
Don’t listen to any of the schism-mongers who tell you it’s May 1st. I know there are those lyrics that might suggest otherwise

Over at Popsci, the physics of tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup, with videos of, well, tossing a ping-pong ball into a beer cup, under various conditions you’d find in a dorm (starting with the unlikely presence of beer cups).
These guys are pretty amazing. And the nonchalance with which they accomplish each trick [...]