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The study found that umpires perform their worst in extreme heat conditions.

The newest edition of Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research discusses methodologies for measuring urban blight. This issue was guest edited by Alexander Din. Across the United States, communities struggle with blighted urban environments and associated negative outcomes, including reduced property values, increased criminal activity, and poor health of residents. Historically, blight has been difficult, labor-intensive, and expensive for researchers to measure. Eric Fesselmeyer and Kiat Ying Seah examine the relationship between inner-city blight and urban sprawl in the ...

UpdatedMon, Jun 28, 2021 at 6:23 pm ET Reply According to a recent Monmouth University study, umpires tend to make worse pitch call as the temperature rises. (Peter Joneleit/CSM/Shutterstock) WEST LONG BRANCH, NJ — According to a recent study published by Monmouth University's Urban Coast Institute, Major League Baseball umpires are more likely to make bad pitch calls as the weather gets hotter outside and that baseball could be a victim of climate change. In the study, Monmouth University associate economics professor Eric Fesselmeyer found that MLB umpires call pitches less accurately i...

OPEC Oil Ministers Meet, and No One Cares What does a fossil fuel-free future sound like? A new Swedish radio program is presenting this future with fictional news reports, interviews and debates from an imaginary time after the energy transition, mixed with mellow, techno road trip songs.   Vattenfall, an electricity company owned by the Swedish government, broadcasts hour-long advertisements at its electric vehicle charging stations called “Radio Fossil Freedom” that imagine a clean-energy future. Drivers can tune in while charging up to get a sense of what the future they are contrib...