Too late to implement this idea for the summer of ’25, but something for parents to keep in mind for next year.
Just like the 1890s and the 2020s, they’ll play with the unvaccinated kids down the street and drink raw milk until dark. Then at daybreak, I’ll hand my children their metal lunch pails, button their fifty-button shoes, and they’ll shuffle off to their factory jobs, because in the Gilded Age, and southern states in the 2020s, no snowflake child labor laws exist.
I’m Giving My Kids a ’90s Summer—the 1890s
A good look at how and why today’s Tour de France riders are somehow faster than 20 years ago, yet also (as far as we know) cleaner than they were in the Armstrong era.
…at his blood-doped peak, two decades ago, ~Armstrong was averaging an estimated 6 watts per kilo~. In 2004, on that same climb in the Pyrenees, ~he took nearly six minutes longer~ than Pogačar did last year. In other words, Armstrong on dope then would be an also-ran next to Pogačar today.
Science Is Winning the Tour de France
Is there a more frustrating, maddening, tantalizing player in the NBA than Joel Embiid? When he’s healthy and at his best, he might be the most unstoppable offensive force in the game. But that has happened all too rarely in his career, and it seems more likely he’ll have a bizarre injury that knocks him out for weeks or months than show any kind of consistency. Then there are the personality traits that drive people around him crazy.
I love Jo, since he’s a Jayhawk. Had he not had multiple bizarre injuries his one year in Lawrence, KU may well have another Final Four banner. Those moments when he was locked in? There were the hints of how good he would be when he won the NBA MVP three years ago.
I also understand why there are a lot of basketball fans who despise him.
This very, very long piece gets into why he is the person he is. My biggest takeaway is that as smart as he is, he was not prepared in any way for his meteoric rise when he arrived in the US. He went from coming off the bench as a high school junior to the player who would have been picked first in the draft if not for an injury three years later. And so much of his aloofness goes back to the Sixers not believing him when he told them his foot wasn’t healing after his first surgery.
I doubt it will change the public view of Embiid. But it is probably the best look we’ll ever get into one of the strangest careers of any modern athlete.
Steven Hyden’s most timely list ever.