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Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting it

  • Written by Edwin Amenta, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
The game is becoming less exciting for fans.Daniel Padavona/shutterstock.com

Since sportswriter Henry Chadwick popularized the box score in the 19th century, baseball fans have had a love affair with statistics. Many can recite records like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Rickey Henderson’s 130 stolen bases or Barry Bonds’...

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Beyond 'Bandersnatch,' the future of interactive TV is bright

  • Written by David Schwartz, Associate Professor of Interactive Games and Media, Rochester Institute of Technology
Make a choice to see the next phase of the story.Netflix

Make a choice: Do you want to engage with your media passively or actively?

The December 2018 premiere of Netflix’s “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” offered consumers a new way to influence the entertainment they’re watching. Netflix has a growing list of...

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How social media is helping Big Tobacco hook a new generation of smokers

  • Written by Robert Kozinets, Hufschmid Chair of Strategic Public Relations, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Documents show tobacco companies have marketed their products to young people. Canna Obscura/shutterstock.com

Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook young people on smoking, circumventing decades of laws restricting the marketing of traditional cigarettes to minors.

In major cities around the world such as Rio de...

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Trump and obstruction of justice: An explainer

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Special counsel Robert Mueller reached no definitive conclusion about whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice in firing FBI Director James Comey or attacking his own investigation.Reuters/Hyungwon Kang, AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Reuters/Jonathan Ernst, Twitter

Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that Trump or his campaign...

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Russia responds to Mueller report: Moscow wins, Putin is stronger than Trump and US is a 'global pain in the a--'

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
Cars pass the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 25, 2019.AP/Pavel Golovkin

“A mountain has given birth to a mouse. The ‘Russian affair’ falls to pieces before our eyes.”

So pronounced the Russian news site Gazeta.ru, as word of the completed Mueller report swept around the world.

Thus far, official Russian response to the...

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Russia responds to Mueller report: Moscow wins, Putin is stronger than Trump and US is a 'pain in the a - -'

  • Written by Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
Cars pass the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 25, 2019.AP/Pavel Golovkin

“A mountain has given birth to a mouse. The ‘Russian affair’ falls to pieces before our eyes.”

So pronounced the Russian news site Gazeta.ru, as word of the completed Mueller report swept around the world.

Thus far, official Russian response to the...

Read more: Russia responds to Mueller report: Moscow wins, Putin is stronger than Trump and US is a 'pain in...

Romney's Mormon religion helps explain his criticism of Trump

  • Written by Luke Perry, Professor of Government at Utica College, Utica College

Mitt Romney has been one of few prominent Republicans to criticize Donald Trump, beginning with the 2016 presidential campaign. He did so again recently in response to Trump’s critical comments about John McCain.

“I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain,”...

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In the future, everyone might use quantum computers

  • Written by Christopher Bernhardt, Professor of Mathematics, Fairfield University
A seven-qubit quantum device at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Computers were once considered high-end technology, only accessible to scientists and trained professionals. But there was a seismic shift in the history of computing during the second half of the 1970s. It wasn’t just that...

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Colorectal cancer increase in younger adults: What could be the cause?

  • Written by Franklin G. Berger, Research and Outreach Director, University of South Carolina
An increase in colorectal cancer in adults younger than 50 is troubling to doctors and often tragic for patients. kan-chana/Shutterstock.com

Colorectal cancer remains a major source of cancer incidence and death in the United States. The American Cancer Society estimates that in 2019, there will be 145,600 new cases of the disease and 51,020...

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Why the next terror manifesto could be even harder to track

  • Written by Megan Squire, Professor of Computer Science, Elon University
It's difficult to track the spread of digital materials.bluebay/Shutterstock.com

Just before his shooting spree at two Christchurch, New Zealand mosques, the alleged mass murderer posted a hate-filled manifesto on several file-sharing sites, and emailed the document to at least 30 people, including New Zealand’s prime minister. He also posted...

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