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Astrophysics & Basketball

Image: Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Logan Weaver/Unsplash, Adrian Pelletier/Unsplash, and Markus Spiske/Unsplash.

One of the great things about the internet and contemporary journalism more broadly is the huge swath of perspectives that we?re able to sample. It?s never been easier to see the world from a different point of view if you?re the intellectually curious type, and we?re lucky to have intelligent people from a range of different disciplines contribute to the public discourse on a wide variety of topics. In that spirit, here?s a wonderful article from Slate (excerpted from an upcoming book by author Nick Greene) about how a trained astrophysicist watches basketball. There are lots of great observations here, among them the idea of ?physical intuition,? or an ability to craft a narrative out of something that?s ultimately unknowable, is essential when considering the activities of stars that are thousands of light ...