Why do we assume it’s spray tanner? I know this is “way out there” but maybe they (poorly, like everything else they touch) put some foundation and/or pancake on him before he goes out to the press conferences.

and loved by middle America

It’s possible that I’m just dense, but the whole concept behind Divergent never made much sense to me. Maybe it was better-executed in the book, but the movie was just nonsensical. My daughter wanted me to take her to the second movie, and I was like, “I can’t sit through that. It’s garbage; let’s wait for it on HBO.…

I have to get the other eye done this year, so I’m thinking about pushing him a little more on the multifocal. Coincidentally my mom is an exec for one of the companies that makes one of the popular multifocal lenses, and she was kind of “meh” about it (but it’s really not her specialty).

Absolutely not. It is a hypothesis to describe how TBI occurs. Look back at the review of scientific literature that you posted earlier. It is riddled with caveats, warnings, suppositions etc. Most of the studies involve a couple of dozen individuals. It just doesn’t pass the test for longitude and repeatability yet.…

The sub concussive theory is not a “scientific theory” in that same sense even though it is definitely in a scientific realm. That argument is most commonly (and almost exclusively) used when people use the word theory as a pejorative when describing global warming. In CTE studies, there is no “repeated testing and…

Get out of here. You know that the Munchkins are not sending their best and brightest. The Munchkins are sending rapists and criminals. They’re bringing problems with them. They’re bringing drugs, and they’re bringing crime. And a few Munchkins, I assume, are good people.

It’s not interesting. The entire retail industry is up today (look at the day’s chart for RLX).

Subconcussive impact effects are still, in fact, still just a theory. They certainly seem plausible, but a lot of theories involving medicine and physiology have been highly plausible and highly wrong. See my post above; there is a lot of science on CTE/TBI but it isn’t yet quite as settled as many people would like…

Probably didn’t prevent blows to the head, but a shoulder pad is a) basically a big shock absorber that dissipates impact forces for both the hitter and hittee and b) is big and bulky and makes you not be able to run quite as fast or hit quite as hard.

Just had cataract surgery three weeks ago (I’m only 45!). My doctor was adamant that the multi-focal lenses don’t work well, and you pay an additional several thousand dollars for the privilege. I haven’t noticed any issues with the lens that they put in which corrects for near vision. I can still see distance, it’s…

As with all of these types of things, Serious Eats (seriouseats.com) did it first and best.

Do you have a link to any peer-reviewed studies to substantiate this?

No helmet-to-helmet hits in the tackle box?

I am saying that there is no current evidence that people who only play football through high school (and possibly up to Div III college) experience dementia at any rate higher than the general public. That said, longitudinal testing hasn’t been properly done and really can likely not ever be done until there’s a…

those repeated subconcussive blows are what produce TBI in the long run.

Or maybe the basketball players start killing each other.

“Hell or High Water” should have been right up my alley, but I found it unbelievably formulaic. From beginning to end it felt like “Brooklyn guy trying to write about west Texas.”

I read the spoiler but it didn’t really mean anything to me since I didn’t know anything about the other M Night Shyamalan movie it apparently refers to. Prepare to be underwhelmed by its spoilerishness.

People say it too much that celebs and others have “crazy eyes,” but GODDAMN THOSE EYES HAVE GOT TO BE A FUCKING SLIP-N-SLIDE INTO THE BATSHIT-CRAZIEST OF SOULS. SHE LOOKS LIKE A TOTAL WHACKADO.