Baseball is the most North American, and North Pacific, sport. It’s little played in Europe, mainland Asia, or south of the equator, but is loved by Americans, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans, Central Americans, Japanese, Koreans, Taiwanese, and Canadians alike. Well, not quite alike. Just as Canada has fiddled around with American football –Continue reading “Canadian Baseball Rules”
Stadium-Shaped Hockey, Stadium-Sized Hockey
Stadium-Shaped Hockey: Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine a hockey rink that is roughly the same size as an NHL rink, except that it is stadium-shaped: the boards behind the goal lines are uniformly curved, rather than only curved in the ‘corners’ as in a conventional rink. Here’s my very rough, amateurish rendering: How would thisContinue reading “Stadium-Shaped Hockey, Stadium-Sized Hockey”
NBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden, 2022: Worth Weighting For
All-Star Game, 2022: 1st Quarter: Lightweight West: Curry, Lillard, McCollum, Morant, Mitchell, Chris Paul, Jamal Murray, Shai GA East: Kyrie Irving , Bradley Beal, Jrue Holiday, Trae Young, Van Vleet, Lowry, Sexton, Brogdon 2nd Quarter: Middleweight West: Doncic, Kawhi, Paul George, Klay, Booker, Derozan, Draymond, Lonzo East: Harden, Butler, Brown, Tatum, Middleton, Lavine, Hayward, LameloContinue reading “NBA All-Star Game at Madison Square Garden, 2022: Worth Weighting For”
The Shootout Problem’s Simple Solution:
The NHL is back, thank god. But so is the shootout. There is a problem with the shootout: it’s anticlimactic, especially after the exciting 3-on-3 OT that precedes it. And it does not resemble the sport of hockey enough to warrant the significant impact over the league standings that it often has. Most hockey fansContinue reading “The Shootout Problem’s Simple Solution:”
T3: Trailer Trolleybus-Trolleytruck?
Trailer buses used to be fairly common. They were mostly abandoned by the early 1960s, having had a number of disadvantages when compared to conventional vehicles. They often needed to employ both a driver (in the tractor) and conductor (in the trailer), for example, which greatly increased their operating costs. A few cities, such asContinue reading “T3: Trailer Trolleybus-Trolleytruck?”
Countries’ True Heights
If for some reason you are trying to look up the average heights of people in various countries, you’ll quickly find that the tallest countries are in northern Europe or the Balkans, where men are just over 6 feet on average and women are around 5″7. The shortest are certain poor countries, such as Bolivia,Continue reading “Countries’ True Heights”
A Pan-Canadian NFL Team
Canada does not have a single stadium that would be suitable for an NFL franchise. Canada does, however, have four stadiums that are not too unsuitable: Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium, Vancouver’s BC Place, and Toronto’s Rogers Centre. Instead of a city like Toronto spending $1 billion or so on a new stadium inContinue reading “A Pan-Canadian NFL Team”
Back-of-the-Envelope World City
1000 square feet per person, for an apartment with a large balcony, is very comfortable. For 10 billion people to have 1000 square feet is 10 trillion square feet. With 10-story buildings, 10 trillion square feet would require 1 trillion square feet of land. 1 trillion square feet is 92,900 square km…let’s round thatContinue reading “Back-of-the-Envelope World City”
Earthquakes
This article is about earthquakes and other disasters. I hope it’s informative, rather than just morbid or ill-timed or pointless.. With an estimated 144,000 deaths so far as a direct result of the Covid-19 virus, this is the first disaster in the past decade to have killed at least 50,000 people. However, it is theContinue reading “Earthquakes”
Solar-Based Space Power
Hello! I hope you are all doing as well as possible right now. Since many of us are stuck inside for the time being, I’m going to try to revive this blog a bit. For this first post, let’s talk about space-based solar power. The idea is a popular one; it is exciting (outer space!)Continue reading “Solar-Based Space Power”
Future Economics 