"You know what? I think we'll come [Saturday] and keep pushing and
give another good effort," Votto said. "That's the way this team plays
and that's the way the personalities on this team react."

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010073112847424/

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Many studies have suggested that, just as with any drug addiction, the
brain strives to return to its normal function while under "attack"
from caffeine by up-regulating, or creating more adenosine receptors.

http://m.lifehacker.com/5585217/what-caffeine-actually-does-to-your-brain

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Leon Lederman, a Nobel laureate in physics who has worked at both
sites, said last year that if the LHC beats the Tevatron to the
discovery, he will have mixed feelings. He said: "It would be a little
like your mother-in-law driving off a cliff in your BMW."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/large-hadron-collider/7888012/Higgs-boson-discovery-rumours-false-say-Tevatron-scientists.html

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Locomotion is essentially a continual process of falling forward, and
mass that falls from a higher altitude, falls faster

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hRv5sUxxWidc9Go7BQLl8iSIwcJw

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Most of us like to believe that our opinions have been formed over
time by careful, rational consideration of facts and ideas, and that
the decisions based on those opinions, therefore, have the ring of
soundness and intelligence. In reality, we often base our opinions on
our beliefs, which can have an uneasy relationship with facts. And
rather than facts driving beliefs, our beliefs can dictate the facts
we chose to accept. They can cause us to twist facts so they fit
better with our preconceived notions. Worst of all, they can lead us
to uncritically accept bad information just because it reinforces our
beliefs. This reinforcement makes us more confident we're right, and
even less likely to listen to any new information. And then we vote.

http://mobile.boston.com/art/21//bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/07/11/how_facts_backfire/?single=1&p=2

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But such piddly concerns did not bother Paul. Mostly because he's an
octopus. Just as he predicted, the European champions Spain became
world champions for the first time with an Andres Iniesta goal in
extra time. And as the Spanish celebrated, Paul floated in his tank,
sure of his genius and probably craving a fresh clam.

http://g.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/world-cup/blog/dirty-tackle/post/Paul-the-Oracle-Octopus-goes-eight-for-eight-is?urn=sow,255211

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Imagine trying intentionally to lose at a game of pure chance, like
roulette or baccarat. It would be impossible. At the beginning of a
deal or a roll you have to bet on something. You can no more
deliberately play badly than you can deliberately play well. The same
is not true for poker, which offers multiple opportunities to make
sure you lose.

http://www.economist.com/node/16507710

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Unfortunately Germany does not realize what it is doing.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/crisis-euro/?pagination=false

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the crash of 2008 conclusively demonstrated that financial markets do
not necessarily tend toward equilibrium; they are just as likely to
produce bubbles.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/aug/19/crisis-euro/?pagination=false

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Firefly is more than just another failed Microsoft Web venture

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1999/08/21243

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The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience,
and Hubris.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html

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The non-waivers Trade Deadline is July 31.

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010070812083302/

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People in the United States do not have a high level of understanding
of evolution, and this survey did not measure actual competence. I've
found that the people most likely to declare that they have a thorough
knowledge of evolution are the creationists…but that a brief
conversation is always sufficient to discover that all they've really
got is a confused welter of misinformation.

http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/

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The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.

He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once

the goal is not to be the richest man in the cemetery

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

Both Frank J. Tipler in his 1994 Omega Point Theory, and Ray Kurzweil
in his 2005 book The Singularity is Near, have suggested that the
human race will soon (by the mid 21st century) evolve into transhuman
immortal humanoid robots which will work to eventually turn the entire
universe into a gigantic supercomputer. They both suggest that this
supercomputer will be able to reverse entropy so that the immortal
robots can live inside the supercomputer in virtual reality forever.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac?wasRedirected=true

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Our
Christmas gift to ourselves,
then, is a moment of repose, to
look back and reminisce on that
which we gave up in favor of a
life spent chained to our
keyboards.

Name the only player to play for 3 last place teams in one season.

In 1970, going to Riverfront Stadium was a big deal. 'The jewel of the Ohio River' was just built, brand new and opened partway into the season.

REMEMBER THE DAY Reds pitcher Tom Browning left Wrigley Field and sat atop a brownstone apartment across the street, in full view of everybody in Wrigley?

“I was umpiring the plate that day,” said Reliford. “Reds catcher Joe Oliver said, ‘Check out what’s across the street on the roof.’” Reliford said he told Oliver, “You can’t see a girl this far away.” Said Oliver, “No, no. Tom Browning is sitting up there in his uniform.”

Browning did it to win a $300 bet from teammate Tim Belcher, which helped pay the $500 fine manager Davey Johnson slapped on him.

In Thursday's win over the Cubs, the Reds had 16 hits but scored only
three runs in 10 innings. On Friday they scored nine runs in the
seventh inning alone, while needing only three hits.

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010070211836120/

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The maximum numerically possible slugging percentage is 4.000. Several
players (99 as of April 2009) have momentarily obtained this as a
career average by homering in their first major league at-bat.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slugging_percentage?wasRedirected=true

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In this case, a link between infections and IQ tells us nothing about
whether infected people grow up to be less intelligent, or whether
intelligent people are less likely to become infected.

http://mblogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/06/29/does-national-iq-depend-on-parasite-infections-er/

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