Don't look at spring statistics, Justin Verlander asks.OK, I promise not to look OH JEEZ. I looked. Verlander has allowed six earned runs, nine hits and nine walks over 9 1/3 innings for the Tigers in Grapefruit League play so far. Verlander walked four in two innings against the Yankees on Wednesda...

This is a guest post by Jackie Jackson. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Around six months ago, Daniel touched upon ratio analysis for bloggers. Basically, he came up with two very interesting formulae for analyzing the capabilities of a blog. The first one was ...

A general assumption in the sports world is that athletes get better over time. Sprinters get faster, hitters hit more home runs, quarterbacks throw fewer interceptions, etc. And yet, there's one sports statistic that has refused to budge: the percentage of free-throws made in the NBA. Here's the NY...

From the HCC sports desk: BEL AIR, Md.—The Harford men’s lacrosse team won its second straight game at Harford Stadium as sophomore Chad Palmer (Fallston, Md./Fallston) led the Fighting Owls (3-1) to a 10-5 victory over Williamson Free Trade on Saturday afternoon. The Owls have now won their las...

In this week's Technology section of the paper, I celebrate the flourishing public-access game development engine scene, user-friendly templates, languages and tech that allows anyone to put their game design ideas into practice with a few clicks. I discovered the trend last week when in Chicago, he...

 http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com/ In attempting to ascertain what caused the destruction of the WTC on 9/11/01, and the great heat and molten metal observed for up to six months afterward, one must account for ALL the phenomena involved in WTC destruction, and the aftermath-- and not just one...

Somalia’s governing council has voted to institute Islamic law (sharia). There are also stories tonight about the effects of Islamic law in Afghanistan and Algeria. Despite the protests of Islam’s apologists, the Muslim world is becoming more radical, not less. Thanks to Barry Rubin, C. Cantoni,...

[In an in-depth analysis, designer and Divide by Zero Games founder James Portnow surveys almost 300 people to discover the role of genre-specific language in games.] Every discipline and specialization establishes its own power words, its own secret language. These languages serve a multiple of pur...

THE EVIDENCE IS THAT THE OCEAN IS COOLING, NOT WARMING An email below from Craig Loehle [Craigloehl@aol.com] Hansen's theory that CO2 forcing is hiding in the oceans can't be true if the oceans are cooling, as my latest paper shows (Energy & Environment Vol. 20, No. 1&2, 2009). Excerpt below: Coolin...

I recently read a message on one of the online message boards that disturbed me a bit. Apparently this person is rather new to genealogy and was experiencing some frustrations.  He wrote, “I'm bummed though because I am not having any luck with Ancestry.com on finding any of my ancestors...