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How do figure skaters like Gracie Gold, Yulia Lipnitskaya, and Ashley Wagner spin so much without getting dizzy? Thank Malcolm Gladwell.

Posted on by Ted Bauer

I’ve been watching the Olympics semi-consistently and some pretty interesting themes have emerged over the first couple of days. I like skiing, for sure, and seeing Matthias Mayer get a gold was cool (sorry, Bode Miller), but what’s been the… Continue Reading →

Are we about to see the first stars ever in the universe?

Posted on by Ted Bauer

We might be. We (“we” as in the human race) just discovered the farthest galaxy ever. It has the sexy name of “z8_GND_5296,” and is about 30 billion light years from Earth (hard to wrap your head around that). It appears… Continue Reading →