Roy Edroso will produce something new for you every day, excluding weekends. That may not sound like such a big deal, but you must remember that for geniuses like Roy, just getting out of bed in the afternoon is a struggle, putting pen to p…
Telling Cricket stories with data. - It’s nearly two decades since Moneyball (the book) came out, and sports analytics has never been hotter. Starting with the humble batting average, and visualisations such as the Manhattan and the Worm, cricket...
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The idea for Pop Cultural Studies comes from people I have talked to in my studies of literature – some people maintain the notion that there is a contrast of high culture and low culture. Some professors I have encountered scoff at the idea that
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I’ve always wanted to do some sort of organized book club. Whenever I find a new book, I tend to get really engrossed in it, but find that I...
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Slow Boring is a blog and newsletter by Matthew Yglesias on American politics and public policy. The name comes from Max Weber’s essay on “Politics as a Vocation” where he writes that