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I looked at the CBS Bowl Projections this morning, as I tend to do every Sunday morning. Everything seemed pretty logical in the wake of Baylor’s loss — Alabama vs. FSU was still the BCS Championship, and you had Oklahoma… Continue Reading
This story about the oldest wine cellar ever discovered has been making the rounds: essentially, it was discovered in a palace dating back to 1700 BC, and it once held 500 gallons of wine, which is enough to fill a seven-person… Continue Reading
Esquire did a timeline of the top-selling Christmas toys by year. If you click through it, you’ll notice three main themes: first, Elmo toys have won the entire market about three or four times; that’s probably best explained in this article. Second,… Continue Reading
The trailer for Season 3 of Girls (which comes back January 12th) is on YouTube today / embedded above, and cultural responses have rolled in from all corners of the Internet: for example, The Wire — which used to be called The Atlantic Wire, but… Continue Reading
Chess can be a confusing sport in terms of the logistics of (a) how to play it and (b) how it’s internationally organized. Magnus Carlsen, for example, has seemingly been on the scene forever. He became a grandmaster at 13, he’s… Continue Reading
Above, that is Denise Link; she’s the Board Chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, and at the end of last month, she won the Urban Educator of the Year award from the Council of Great City Schools. When this was… Continue Reading
I normally try not to do two sports posts within a few of each other, because I like to keep this here blog diverse, but this is almost too good to pass up. Last night, at the Thunder-Clippers game, a… Continue Reading
The 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination is tomorrow; I’m sure most of you potentially reading this knew that by now. I was watching Tom Brokaw on The Daily Show last night, and he made some good points regarding that moment in American… Continue Reading