Over the past decade, the top end of sport has become saturated in data. Some of this is visible—such as match statistics, maximum speeds and distances covered—but a tremendous amount is invisible.
Social Sciences
Apr 13, 2022
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Anyone who has booked a flight online knows that ticket prices vary widely. From destination to timing, a long list of factors influence the price customers pay for their flight to Vegas.
Economics & Business
Mar 18, 2022
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With the rapid convergence of the gambling and technology spheres over recent years, sports betting has become more accessible, more customizable and more complex. Gone are the days where punters were limited to betting on ...
Social Sciences
Mar 11, 2022
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Providing residents with information about their neighborhood police officers may reduce crime rates, suggests a Nature paper. The combined results from laboratory and field studies suggest that our sense of anonymity depends ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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The winter Olympics conjure up images of snowy mountain ranges, frozen ice rinks and athletes in cold-weather gear. And for good reason. Winter Olympic venues have often been in places that receive an average snowfall of ...
Environment
Feb 9, 2022
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Speed alone may be the factor that draws many sports fans to the bobsled, luge and skeleton events at this year's Beijing Winter Olympics. But beneath the thrilling descents of the winding, ice-covered track, a myriad of ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2022
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The ice rinks that play host to figure skating and speedskating competitions at the Beijing Olympics will also be putting a major environmental problem on the world stage—the potent greenhouse gases often lurking in refrigerators, ...
Environment
Feb 4, 2022
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When Gen Xer Amy Rottier went shopping for her young children two decades ago, she drove to a mall and browsed for what she needed. Her millennial daughter, Helen, who is studying for a doctorate and doesn't have children, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2022
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For some sports stars, a certain level of adulation is just part of the job. But many are also now subjected to abuse and malicious campaigns on social media. It recently emerged that Liverpool FC have hired a therapist to ...
Social Sciences
Jan 28, 2022
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Even American women who identify as quite passionate sports fans don't watch athletic events much more frequently than women who say they aren't as interested in sports, a new national study finds.
Social Sciences
Jan 3, 2022
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