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Toronto’s Sports Teams Are Hyperreal

Or, why sports entertainment is the most valuable–and most mediated–entertainment of our time.
Corin Faife
Jul 22, 2016 6 min read

Women Are Being Left Behind by the Sports Data Revolution

There are sports stories we wish we could tell–but the data just isn't there even at the highest level.
Nikita Taparia
Jul 21, 2016 6 min read

The Athletic Life of the Modern Competitive Eater

How do you train for the physical endurance of eating as quickly as possible?
Rich McEachran
Jul 20, 2016 6 min read

A Brief History of Ludicrous Sci-Fi Sports (and Their Chances of Becoming Reality)

From "The Prisoner" to "The Running Man," sci-fi writers can't help but try to invent weird new games.
Holly Gramazio & Sophie Sampson
Jul 18, 2016 8 min read

Is Gender Segregation in Sports Necessary?

Examining not just the science of gender segregation in sport, but the social cost as well.
Alice Sanders
Jul 14, 2016 7 min read

Why Everyone Is Suddenly Into E-Sports (and How You Can Be, Too)

Streaming video has allowed the scene to get so huge that mainstream acceptance is no longer a consideration, let alone a...
Duncan Geere
Jul 12, 2016 9 min read

The World’s Best Sports Technology Comes From the Military-Industrial Complex

Sports have had a long relationship with the military–but over the past decade or so at least one aspect of that...
Richard Moss
Jul 11, 2016 6 min read

Playing the Field: A Reading List

A crash course in how innovations in sports affect the wider world.
How We Get To Next
Jul 7, 2016 3 min read

Where We Live and How We Die

What a year of death looks like around the world.
Mimi Onuoha
Jun 30, 2016 6 min read

Pandemic Proofing the World

An epidemiologist in Nairobi on the next Zika virus.
Delia Grace
Jun 29, 2016 7 min read
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