The medical community is constantly on the lookout for innovative solutions to humanity’s ailments, and thanks to advances in science and technology, cures for diseases and disorders once considered incurable are always around the corner. One development is the human–animal hybrid. These artificial hybrids, called chimeras, have the potential to create better model organisms to […]
Archives for May 2017
Whither the War on Drugs?
Note: This is the fifth and final piece in a series examining criminal justice in America. Read the earlier stories here, here, here and here. In December, I wrote that the election of Donald Trump would likely put a hold on many of the criminal justice reforms that President Obama had advocated, many of which once seemed to […]
Does Major League Baseball Need A Salary Cap?
Major League Baseball is the last holdout in a sports landscape dominated by salary caps. The NBA installed one in 1984, and the NFL followed suit a decade later. The NHL was the most recent adopter, instituting a cap in 2005. If history is any guide, there will be an MLB salary cap within our […]
“The Simpsons” and Me
There’s this one episode of “The Simpsons” where Bart, Milhouse, Nelson, and Ralph are recruited by a record producer named L. T. Smash to join a boy band named “Party Posse.” It turns out that the record producer’s real name is actually Lt. L.T. Smash and he’s using Bart and his friends’ boy band music […]
Conflicts of Interest and the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement
Note: this article is a follow-up to an article I wrote about the Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations between the NBA and the Players Association, which can be read here. This past January, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) peacefully ratified a new collective bargaining agreement, to the great relief […]