April 6, 2021
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Monday night may have featured an all-time team.
It just wasn’t Gonzaga.
Baylor looked like the group chasing immortality and the team with all the projected first-round draft picks.
Its three-guard lineup of MaCio Teague, Jared Butler, and Davion Mitchell was dynamite. Its defense was stifling. The Zags had very few answers less than 48 hours after their dramatic buzzer-beating national semifinal win over UCLA.
The result was never in doubt. Baylor scored the game’s first nine points and led by double figures almost the entire evening to win its first national championship in school history, 86-70, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
“Our guys, the better the opponent, the better they play,” Baylor coach Scott Drew said. “And they love being the first — first to win [a] conference [title] since 1950, first to win a national championship. I mean, that really motivates them.”
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Baylor celebrates winning the 2021 national championship.
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April 6, 2021
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April 5, 2021
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There was no need to pipe in crowd noise at Globe Life Field on Monday, as the Texas Rangers hosted the Toronto Blue Jays in front of the largest crowd at a sporting event in the United States in more than a year.
From the long lines of fans waiting to get into the stadium to the persistent buzz of the spectators during quiet moments, the game in Arlington, Texas, was a throwback to a time before the coronavirus crippled the country.
The state’s lifting of capacity restrictions made the enormous crowd possible. And for Major League Baseball, which claims its teams collectively lost billions during a largely fanless 2020 season, it was a hopeful sign that large crowds can return to all of the league’s games before too long. The open question is whether such events can be safe as the pandemic continues.
The Rangers announced in March that the team would sell tickets for every seat of their home opener in a stadium that opened last season. And on Monday that came to fruition, with an official crowd of 38,238 fans. That total, which was announced as a sellout, represented 94.8 percent of the stadium’s 40,300-seat capacity, and it topped the Daytona 500 (which allowed slightly more than 30,000 fans) and the Super Bowl (24,835), both of which were held in February, as the largest crowd at a U.S. sporting event since the pandemic began last year.
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© Jeffrey Mcwhorter/Associated Press Lines stretched out to the parking lot at Globe Life Field before the Texas Rangers’ home opener against the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.
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April 5, 2021
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A few weeks ago, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the subject of a glowing profile in Politico that was built around an absurd premise: “How Ron DeSantis won the pandemic.” The story suggested that the number of deaths in Florida from the Covid-19 virus — at least 32,000 at the time — was a victory for DeSantis and his defiant, performative right-wing decision-making. Somehow, this qualified as a win:
Now, though, it’s a year into the pandemic—and the apocalypse has yet to arrive. It’s been, no doubt, a wrenching year. Approximately 2 million Floridians have tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 32,000 have died, the disbursement of unemployment benefits has been stingy and uneven, the vaccine rollout has been pockmarked by tales of lengthy waits, balky websites and numerous charges of socioeconomic inequities and political favoritism. Ominous variants lurk.
We’ll get into those various disasters in a minute, but I want to focus first on the vaccine rollout bit. The “numerous charges of socioeconomic inequities and political favoritism” line is putting it lightly. DeSantis’s administration has heavily favored white, wealthy, politically connected communities in Florida’s roll-out,
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April 5, 2021
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Dongchuan District is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, People’s Republic of China. The district was approved to form from the former Dongchuan City by the State Council on December 6, 1998.
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An image from Dongchuan District
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April 5, 2021
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Tall, dark, handsome, funny, kind, great with kids, a six-figure salary, a harsh but fair critic of my creative output … the list of things people want from their spouses and partners has grown substantially in recent decades. So argues Eli Finkel, a professor of social psychology at Northwestern University in his book, The All-or-Nothing Marriage.
As Finkel explains, it’s no longer enough for modern marriage to simply provide a second pair of strong hands to help tend the homestead or even just a nice enough person who happens to be from the same neighborhood. Instead, people are increasingly seeking self-actualization within their marriages, expecting their partner to be all things to them. Unfortunately, that only seems to work if you’re an Olympic swimmer whose own husband is her brusque coach. Other couples might find that career-oriented criticism isn’t the best thing to hear from the father of your 4-year-old. Or, conversely, a violinist might simply have a hard time finding a skilled conductor—who also loves dogs and long walks on the beach—on Tinder.
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Wax models of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confetti thrown on them at Madame Tussauds. Photo by Jason Reed / Reuters.
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April 5, 2021
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In 1983, Nach Waxman sought to stock his new bookstore, Kitchen Arts & Letters, with curiosities that weren’t cookbooks. He soon discovered Victorian-era advertisements known as trade cards. “I thought it would be a really interesting item to have in the store,” he says. “They’re attractive images and they’re small, so people could frame them, put them in their room, and put them on their kitchen walls.” The one problem? People weren’t buying them. Only one person was sold: Waxman. “I was hooked,” he laughs.
Before collectors clamored over baseball cards, Victorians couldn’t get enough of trading cards. The middle and upper class had a penchant for collecting the cards, which often came packaged with the products they advertised, and pasting them into scrapbooks. The name “trading cards” is thought to come from the phenomenon of collectors exchanging these cards, which advertised baking powder, Heinz tomato soup, and everything imaginable with images of chefs emerging from giant pickles and poetry-spouting pigs. Collectors such as Waxman refer to them as trade cards, to denote the term used at the time.
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Have some baking powder, lest a demon creeps up while you sleep. Images courtesy of Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
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April 5, 2021
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April 3, 2021
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In a piece in The Conversation, Bernadette Saunders described positive discipline. Parents who practice positive discipline or gentle parenting use neither rewards nor punishments to encourage their children to behave.
By “no rewards” I mean they don’t use charts or “bribes” such as lollies or toys. Many don’t even say “good girl/boy” or “good job”.
And by “no punishments” I mean they don’t use time-outs, smacking, shaming, or yelling. Forget the naughty step, forget the sticker chart, let’s take a journey into the world of gentle or positive discipline, which aims to teach children empathy, self-control, and calmness.
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April 3, 2021
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For patient after patient seeking to cure chronic back pain, the experience is years of frustration. Whether they strive to treat their aching muscles, bones, and ligaments through physical therapy, massage, or rounds of surgery, relief is often elusive – if the pain has not been made even worse. Now a new working hypothesis explains why: persistent back pain with no obvious mechanical source does not always result from tissue damage. Instead, that pain is generated by the central nervous system (CNS) and lives within the brain itself.
I caught my first whiff of this news about eight years ago when I was starting the research for a book about the back-pain industry. My interest was both personal and professional: I’d been dealing with a cranky lower back and hip for a couple of decades, and things were only getting worse. Over the years, I had tried most of what is called ‘conservative treatment’ such as physical therapy and injections. To date, it had been a deeply unsatisfying journey.
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