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... against Bangladesh, the "minnow" that sent England packing , here's a fake interview of MCC Chairman . Much fun there, inc...

A neat study by Ian Gregory-Smith, David Paton, Abhinav Sacheti -- Not really cricket: Home bias in officiating -- confirms what many fans ...

Dhimant Parekh: Of Rains, Cows and a Picture : "For that moment, we four [three men and a cow] were all in one world, in one picture....

Matt Honan in Wired : How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking Patrick Combs in FT : A man walks into the bank . "P...

Vinod Joseph at Winnowed : How I Ran The Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon With My (Almost) Flat Feet And A Bad Back . Pamposh Raina and H...

... The experience wasn’t simply about the easy pleasure of undeserved expertise. When the nice neuroscientists put the electrodes on me, th...

How "India is well-placed to push ahead with its bid to become a scientific powerhouse" [click the link at the bottom to read Ric...

A paper from Satyam Mukherjee of Northwestern University implements this algorithm on cricket matches to arrive at a new scheme for ranking...

I have no idea how great this Jeremy Lin guy is at basketball, but he has given us some good stuff -- like this one from Jon Stewart's D...

Namit Arora at 3 Quarks Daily : The Bhagavad Gita Revisited: Part 1 Given the big bang summary -- "Why the Bhagavad Gita is an overrat...

The question is posed in this video , but you don't need to see it to appreciate the ultraslomo demo. Watch: YouTube link . The fo...

Atul Gawande does it again , with an awesome essay that weaves in keen observations on coaching in sports and music with his novel experimen...

Anne Murphy Paul in NYTimes : The Trouble With Homework : Fortunately, research is available to help parents, teachers and school administr...

Lots of nice pics ; but the really wonderful ones feature the fans -- fans in slums, fans in shopping malls, fans on tractor trailers, fans ...

Here are some possibilities brought to us from the corporate and B-school jungles by a gutsy team of ET reporters. [Thanks for the comment...

In to-day's post , he says: I wrote yesterday that I lived in fear of management experts wanting to derive mileage from Dhoni's suc...

Very afraid : The thing I now dread is the management experts jumping in with 'Lessons in leadership from Dhoni'.

NYRB carries a great review essay by Garry Kasparov -- The Bobby Fischer Defense -- on a recent biography of the iconic American prodigy: ...

Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy : INSANELY awesome solar eclipse picture . James Choi at The .Plan: A Quasi-Blog : Evidence of professional soc...

Brian Palmer in Slate : Why Does the United Kingdom Get To Have Four National Soccer Teams? [Link via Chris Blattman ] Mike Lacher in McSw...