I'm no expert on Yoga (the few times I've tried it I'm either hopelessly bored, completely dying, or both) but it's absolutely a myth that cardio is the only way to lose weight. Some would argue it's not even the best way.

Yes, and no. Even when played on North American-sized rinks Olympic hockey is less contact than the NHL. I've also seen Midget B games get super rough on international-sized rinks. But you're right that plays a part in it.

Interesting. I think the other 15 cities are largely the result of the tail end of a the gender-gap distribution (a suggestion backed up by the fact that 8 of them are in CA or NY, two states with relatively low gender wage gaps), but there has to be something weird going on in Jacksonville beyond just that. I mean,…

But that's just because that's what the rules say. There's less hitting in international hockey than the NHL even with the exact same players, because that's what the rules are. There's no reason it needs to be that way aside for tradition.

Belle Pro is awful. Like really bad. I never understood the praise it gets, I think it must be a patriotic-Quebecois thing. Smokes, while a little overpriced/overhyped is solid. It's also a concept that lends itself better to American expansion I'd say. My favourite chain poutine place is Frite Alors.

So you think it's an absolute coincidence that, in any sport, the countries that care the most about it and funnel their best athletes into it are the most successful? You're really trying to argue that the US (and Canada, the South Asian countries, Australia/New Zealand, and Scandinavia) have all their absolute best…

That's one of the hardest things about Baseball. In hockey if you fuck up at least you can go out there the very next shift and skate even harder, try to throw a hit, get into it. In baseball if you fuck up you have to just stand there waiting for a shot to make up for it, and it has time to get in your head.

In 2006, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad allowed women to attend soccer matches in big stadiums so long as they sat in a separate section, but the ban was promptly reinstated by Iranian clerics.

I stand corrected. I have not seen ParaNorman so perhaps that was a better flick.

Well 2012 was a pretty weak year for animation. I see you praising FrankenWeenie downthread, I was not that much of a fan of that movie, and although I have not seen Pirates! I'd say Brave is as good as anything else that came out. Furthermore I think Pixar may have deserved a break one that one since their previous…

Seabrook really isn't in the same league as the others. You have to consider Suter though.

In addition to those named you could make a case for Datsyuk and Tavares, at least one of the Sharks (Thornton and Pavelski), and perhaps even Matt Duchene.

In addition to sloanbuller's comments elsewhere in this thread, there's a little bit of historical reasoning for funding Catholic schools. Essentially, at the time of Confederation, Catholicism and the French-Canadian identity were firmly intertwined, and the province of Quebec wanted to ensure that French-speaking…

I call bullshit. No Man's Land is one of the defining Batman stories (up there with Year One, Long Halloween, and The Dark Knight Returns in my opinion; others would add Killing Joke and Knightfall to that list) and is often included in lists of the greatest story arcs of all time.

Yep. I had a chem prof at university who brought the class powdered mini donuts, then during his lecture mentioned that we all just ate nanoparticles.

"Hardworking" (all one word) comes in at 1.61 for whites and 0.71 for blacks...

Sure, lets. Almost all the "most underrated" movies are either cult comedies (Super Troopers, Empire Records, Van Wilder, etc) or movies that at least partially targeted non-white audiences (such as the Tyler Perry flicks or Stomp the Yard). This chart says more about the demographics of critics than it does about how…

Some (but certainly not all!) of the restaurants I've worked at had dedicated chicken cutting boards. That practice never stuck for me at home though, I figure if some hot water and dish soap can't get rid of the e coli then I guess it was meant to happen.

Unless two individual matchups end at more or less the same time, and it goes to 4v4. I wonder how often that happens?

You're right that CORSI (like PDO) is more a descriptive than a predictive stat when used as a team-wide metric. It can tell us that the Leafs are in trouble for instance, but not what they can do to fix it (although I would suggest that there are some glaring holes in Carlyle's tactical schemes, that's more…