basketball
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A thermal theory of basketball
Chemistry is a good metaphor for how teams work—especially when times get tough, such as in the playoffs happening in the NBA right now. Think about it. Every element has a melting point: a temperature above which solid turns liquid. Basketball teams do too, only that temperature changes from game to game, opponent to opponent, and… Continue reading
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Advertising in the pits
There is an ad running during the NCAA basketball playoffs that’s so creepy and surreal that I decided to take some screen shots of it, as a kind of public service to the company spending money on it. The scene is a guy’s hairy armpit. (Do they have armpit models? Guess so.) As if this… Continue reading