I’m not one of those people who makes hating Christmas music an important part of their personality, but I have to be in the right mood, and there quickly comes a time when I’ve had enough. I had a suspicion
If you’re reading this blog there’s a good chance you heard about Matt Amodio’s incredible run on Jeopardy. After winning 38 consecutive games he walked away with over $1.5 million dollars. I thought I’d take a look at how his
Here in the northern hemisphere we recently experienced the autumnal equinox, which means we saw an equal 12 hours of day and night. It also marked the beginning of fall—at least according to astronomical seasons. Meteorological seasons are different. For
The 2021-22 NFL season kicked off last night and I’m in a football mood. Let’s continue the streak of sports posts! Football is often characterized as a game of inches. I’ve always taken that to mean that many seemingly small
As curtains close on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics I thought I’d take a look at one of my favorite athletes: Ryan Crouser. After breaking the 31-year-old world record earlier this year (below), Crouser traveled to Tokyo and easily won Olympic
Many Americans have picked up a new hobby in recent years: sports betting. The industry has exploded since the US Supreme Court threw out a federal ban in 2018. While the stereotype is still a smoke-filled room in a dark
Today let’s dip our toes into the SQL world. We’ve spent a lot of time working with pandas and CSV files but data won’t always be packaged that way. It’s a valuable skill to be comfortable with data in all
With Independence Day coming this weekend I thought I’d take a closer look at the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. How old were they? Where were they from? What did they do? What did their families look like?
“What’s a palindrome again? Wait, I think that’s an anagram. I can’t even spell onomatopoeia.” A palindrome is a word or phrase (or anything, really) that’s written the same forward and backward. For example: Racecar Madam Evil olive Step on
Every Friday morning FiveThirtyEight posts a math challenge in their Riddler column. The May 21, 2021 problem featured “anti-isosceles” sets. I’ll let the Riddler himself explain in more detail: But this week, Jordan is asking about what he calls
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