[Video] Deep Thoughts: The Metric System
Should you use the metric system? Maybe. The more important questions is "when to use it?"
Statistical Analysis for Why Baseball Should Not Have a Playoff
Editor's Note: This is a continuation of the article Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing The Best Team Fairly?. I suggest reading at least the first part of it for context. Growing up in Georgia, I was a fan of the Atlanta Braves and Falcons. Being a fan of the Braves in the '90s and early 2000s…
Is Your Favorite Sport Choosing the Best Team Fairly?
Editor's note: this post got pretty long, so I decided to throw baseball into it's own article...stay tuned. People like sports. They are exciting to watch, fun to follow, and offer great small talk fodder with people whom you have little in common. For a graphical view of why people like sports, consult the image…
[Video] How to Get Six-Pack Abs
Possibly the most elusive of all workout goals, the coveted six-pack is as mysterious as it is challenging.
Does Brute Force Always Beat Precision?
The date was July 6, 2008. I sleepily crawled out of bed at 9 a.m. to watch the men's final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. If you are a tennis fan, then you probably remember this match. It is widely considered the greatest tennis match of all time. What made it great? Well, it pitted…
[Video] Deep Thoughts: Independence Day
As July 4 approaches, I took some time to reflect on what it means to be an American.
[Video] Deep Thoughts: The Notebook
Chances are, if you are a guy and have been in a relationship for any length of time, then you've probably seen The Notebook. I'm sorry.
Life Lessons from Gilligan's Island
"Gilligan's Island" was a show that ran on CBS from 1964 to 1967. Despite being very popular, it was cancelled after 3 seasons, due partly to the CBS president's wife being a big fan of "Gunsmoke", pressuring the network to reschedule the show to the time slot of "Gilligan's Island", which caused them to cancel…
[Video] Deep Thoughts: Confidence
You may think you have confidence, but do you? Do you really?
Planet Fitness or CrossFit? Gyms and Political Polarity in America
When you really look at it, the fact that gyms exist really shows how we have progressed technologically as a society, but regressed physically. If we were able to get sufficient exercise in our daily lives, then we wouldn't need gyms. But we don't get sufficient exercise (well, many of us don't, myself included), so we do,…