There’s so much to despise about high school sports in 2025: crass commercialization, win-at-all-cost woefulness, etc. ...

In the final months of 2023, I made one of my most controversial decisions. More than four years had elapsed since I’d last upgraded my phone; the battery life had already begun its slow descent into ...

An earlier blog called blockbuster trades “rare in the WNBA.” In fact, they happen twice a week now. We regret the error.

Jen Golbeck is a writer, scientist, and professor at the University of Maryland. Her Substack, The MAGAReport, tracks what’s ...

Saint Louis was looking to complete the biggest win of its season. The Billikens men’s basketball team has been playing brilliant defense since starting Atlantic 10 conference play, and their 78-69 ...

Elaine Powers first became interested in studying coprophagy—the practice of eating feces—when she was teaching high school biology. Powers often told her students about rabbits, which excrete a ...

Relative velocity’s a hell of a thing. It’s impossible to conceptualize how fast 300 kilometers per hour is until you’re on a train that fast. Even then, it’s primarily visual: Until you look at the ...