July 13, 2009

Who is Shyster?


Roll mouse over dates
Daily Posts
July 2009
S M T W T F S



1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31




Player Search:
Plus our Statistical Definitions

Monthly Archives



Or you can search by:

StubHub is where fans buy and sell Yankees Tickets, Red Sox Tickets, White Sox Tickets, Mets Tickets and all other baseball tickets. If you are looking for World Series Tickets, ALCS Tickets or NLCS Tickets, you can find them at StubHub! More hot selling tickets include: Cubs Tickets, Astros Tickets, Dodgers Tickets, Angels Tickets and Detroit Tigers Tickets.

Gear up for baseball season with Chicago White Sox tickets and New York Yankees tickets. LA Angels tickets, Houston Astros tickets, and Atlanta Braves tickets are hot sellers! You can get Boston Red Sox tickets, San Diego Padres tickets or Chicago Cubs tickets for your favorite baseball fan. Coast to Coast Tickets has the best MLB tickets like Minnesota Twins tickets, LA Dodgers tickets, Milwaukee Brewers tickets, New York Met tickets and St. Louis Cardinals tickets.



Creative Commons License
All content on this site (including text, graphs, and any other original works), unless otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Most Recent Comments

Shyster's Daily Circuit


Baseball. Blogging. Whenever.

Monday, January 05, 2009

Wait, are we this dumb?

This has nothing to do with baseball or even sports, but since a lot of sciencey types read THT, I thought it worth noting. From an AP story about the size of our galaxy:

Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore. The Milky Way is considerably larger, bulkier and spinning faster than astronomers once thought, Andromeda's equal.

Scientists mapped the Milky Way in a more detailed, three-dimensional way and found that it's 15 percent larger in breadth. More important, it's denser, with 50 percent more mass, which is like weight. The new findings were presented Monday at the American Astronomical Society's convention in Long Beach, Calif.

When was the last time you saw even the most basic science story describe the concept of mass as "like weight"? Mass is mass and weight is weight, and the last I checked, it was a concept that was taught in grade school. Heck, when was the last time you saw a science story that felt it necessary to explain the concept of mass at all?

Posted by Craig Calcaterra at 10:14pm


Comments

Rahul said...

sabermetrics, which is like numbers and stuff…

Posted 01/05  at  11:59 PM
Levi Stahl said...

Yeah, um, mass is like weight like Juan Pierre is like Rickey Henderson . . . which is an admittedly feeble attempt to make this baseball-related. Ready to have it topped with the next comment.

Posted 01/06  at  12:05 AM
Ken Dynamo said...

last time i checked the USA Today, yes, we were in indeed that dumb and then some. 

at least they didn’t attempt to define gravity as a heavy type of snake.

Posted 01/06  at  12:14 AM
Andy said...

I saw this earlier, too.  Unbelievably bad article.

Posted 01/06  at  01:40 AM
AMusingFool said...

Well, in a country where the average male doesn’t read a complete book after finishing high school, it’s quite likely that we are.

Posted 01/06  at  07:51 AM
Page 1 of 1

Tell the Shyster what you think:

Name (required):

Email (required):

URL:

Remember my personal information

Notify me of follow-up comments?



     Next Post:  Today at THT>> <<Previous Post:  Hamels goes to Arbitration