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increase font size Olympic athletes adjust to Summer Games with no fans Fans have not been allowed at events at the Tokyo Olympics due to COVID-19 and athletes have noticed the lack of noise. By David WhartonLos Angeles Times Share Sweden’s Lucas Pellas jumps to take a shot in front of an empty set of stands during a handball game against Japan on Monday in Tokyo. Sergei Grits/Associated Press TOKYO — The gray, bustling city gives way to a wooded park, green and alive with the whir of cicadas, an unexpected oasis amid tall buildings. Deep in the trees, hidden at first, sits a small ar...

Yves here. Corruption has become so pervasive in the US that we tend to think of it as driven by money considerations (career advancement is one manifestation). This study of scientists who’ve become so enamored by their supposed discoveries that they resort to destructive conduct doesn’t mesh tidily with our contemporary notions of unscrupulousness. The abusers profiled in The Icepick Surgeon are more hubristic….maybe even meglomaniacal…entranced by their own distorted vision of conquest. They aren’t included in this book, The Icepick Surgeon, but it isn’t a stretch to think that...

June 20, 2021 3 Minutes There’s a famous paper by Gary Klein, Paul Feltovich, and David Woods, called Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity. Written in 2004, this paper discusses the challenges a group of people face when trying to achieve a common goal. The authors introduce the concept of common ground, which must be established and maintained by all of the participants in order for them to reach the goal together. I’ve bloggedpreviously about the concept of common ground, and the associated idea of the basic compact. (You can also watch John Allspaw discuss the pa...

Cox Rolls Into Finals By Winning Group B Monday, June 28, 2021 MLF Communications Staff John Cox caught 23 scorable bass that combined to weigh 75-15 to win the two-day Group B Qualifying Round at MLF Bass Pro Tour event on the St. Lawrence River in Massena, N.Y. Cox’s two-day total of 54 bass weighing 175 pounds even earned him the victory by a 23-11 margin and advances him directly into Wednesday's Championship Round. James Elam caught a two-day total of 51 bass weighing 151-05 to end the round in 2nd place and Bryan Thrift ended up 3rd with 51 bass weighing 149-11. The remaining 38 co...

Another Chapter In Texas' Classic Lore On Tap Wednesday, June 9, 2021 Photo: B.A.S.S./Seigo Saitotreet Rick Clunn now calls Missouri home, but he won his four Bassmaster Classic titles as a Texas resident. By Lynn Burkhead OSG Senior Digital Editor On the surface, the Bassmaster Classic and the state of Texas might not seem to have much in common. After all, despite the Lone Star State’s many storied bass waters – Lake Fork, Sam Rayburn, Toledo Bend, Falcon, and Amistad come to mind – the Classic has never visited that group of famous lunker factories lying between the Red River and th...