Your Mid-Week Experiment
Welcome to your always free, reader-supported edition of The Experiment where we share great things to read, cook, listen to, and watch. As always, this bugga free.
Let’s get right to it:
Ben Clemens has a smart reminder about how risk-averse our brains are and how hedges are for gardens. (FanGraphs)
Sally Jenkins makes a good point that reducing the issue of trans women playing sports into “them” against “us” misses the point of sports. (gift link)
Chuck Culpepper reminds one of Sports Illustrated’s good old days with his recounting of the Longhorns’ big win. (gift link)
Kudos to a friend who worked on this research into an ugly thing that breaks my heart. (Reuters)
“[T]he biggest shift in contemporary politics and PR may be that the cost of an error has dropped, while the value of ubiquity has risen.” (Ben Smith)
This is solidly funny.
Lord, I miss baseball.