Should you pay for mortgage points?
When you apply for a mortgage, most lenders let you pay a little bit up front to reduce the interest rate. These payments are known as “points”: should you buy them?
Author: aren
Can you leap tall mountains in a single bound?
We consider the use of spacecraft and earth-moving equipment to be fair game in pursuit of sporting glory. But what about 145,000 razor blades?
On the increased drag due to broken Marlin bills
A Marlin jousted with a row boat. Here’s the effect on boat drag!
A trophy without a plaque
The 1981 postseason was a real shitshow, and people knew that at the time.
143 years of screwing up: a historical look at errors in baseball
If you you use the right denominator, you can reduce the history of errors in baseball to two broad trends. Of course, you can fit an elephant with four parameters, so maybe WGAF, right?
When are you animals going to let me buy some toilet paper?
A sobering calculation in these trying times.
Deathcross in the time of coronavirus
At the time of writing, the S&P 500 index is 26.7% below its all time high. Time to check on our old friend Deathcross.
…missed it by half a finger.
Have you ever looked at your hands? Like, really looked closely at them when you grab a barbell?
A brief history of contrived records, part 2
Hold my sword. Me and this mustache are going to do something worth writing down. (Olaf Rye, probably)