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Roki Sasaki's Year-One Rollercoaster

Roki Sasaki signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers as one of the best and most highly talked about free agent prospects in the 2025 free agency. His highly anticipated debut was filled with ups and downs, allowing only one run, but command issues forced him out of the game after only three innings. He had a 4.72 ERA through his first 8 starts. Then, on May 13th, 2025, everything took a turn for the worse. Roki was placed on the 15-day IL and was expected only to miss a little o

A History of Playing Cards

While most American households have a deck of playing cards, many do not know its origins. If you trace its history all the way back, you can find early traces of playing cards in China around the 1000s CE. Because playing cards are made of paper and tend to be fragile, no originals from China have been found. However, we can have a rough idea of what these looked like from later Chinese playing cards. There were 3 suites: coins, strings, and myriads (usually represented by a

Baseball's Comeback

In the early twentieth century, America’s sport was baseball. People loved to watch it, play it, and live it. In the midst of World War II—when people were on the edge of their seats for reasons far beyond entertainment—baseball brought comfort. It reminded Americans of joy, normalcy, and their love for the game. In the 1950s, Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters of all time, famously said: “Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as s

Daylight Savings Time - We All Know It, But Do We Really Love It?

First of all, let’s clarify what its purpose is. In World War One, daylight savings time was used to conserve energy by having people use less electricity, as it gets darker earlier. There is a widespread myth that it was meant to benefit farmers, but the truth is actually quite the opposite - farmers were the biggest opponent to the change, largely because it interrupts factors such as the cows' readiness to be milked. Many propositions for Daylight Savings Time have been

Why do We Procrastinate?

I’m going to put off answering this question for a moment. Instead, let’s take a step back and ask something more basic: why do we do anything at all? Or more precisely, why do we bother doing things that require any amount of effort? When all options seem otherwise equal, our instinct is to avoid mental and physical exertion. So why not avoid these tasks altogether? The answer is pretty straightforward. Getting what we want requires effort. Sometimes the reward is direct,