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Is interest fading in the NFL?
I ran across this statistic from Harper’s after I watched a good deal of the NFL Draft: Number of the one hundred most-watched TV broadcasts last year that were NFL games: 92 So what I did wasn’t entirely irrational, right? … Continue reading
Posted in Judiciary, The Facts of Life
Tagged Harper's, NFL, NFL Draft, NFL games, professional football, TV broadcast winners
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Polls, polling and high anxiety: an easy test
Having just read the ratings sportswriters have published for the NFL draft, I wonder, as always, how their opinions will compare to the results on the football field. But NFL draft ratings are not what this is about. Indeed, one … Continue reading
Posted in Government, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting rights
Tagged 538com, Emerson polls, Fox News polls, GOP Ohio Senate primary, JD Vance, Josh Mandel, Nate Silver, NFL Draft, RealClearPolitics
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Weird findings about monkeys and their relations
From Harper’s April 2022 Findings: A pharmacologically administered liver enzyme was found to halve ethanol consumption among alcoholic vervet monkeys, macaques in Virginia failed to wean themselves off heroin and cocaine, and a new population of whitehanded gibbons was discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Animal news, The Facts of Life
Tagged A Mighty Wind, cognitive repulsion mechanism, Fairway, Finland, Harper's, macaques, NFL Draft, vervet monkeys, whitehanded gibbons
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