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The World Series math class

Posted at 1:00 PM on October 26, 2012 by Bob Collins (2 Comments)
Filed under: Science

If you were among the many people wasting their time watching the Minnesota Vikings last night, you probably missed this from the World Series game between the Tigers and Giants.

How hard did the ball hit Doug Fister in the head?

Wired.com's Dot Physics blog did that thing they do with the...

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..and the...

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... and the...

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... and that other thing -- oh, what do they call it? -- you know, this thing...

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And came up with "hard."


Comments (2)

Ok, that was a time waster!

Posted by boB from WA | October 26, 2012 1:18 PM


I love where the blog was going and where it ended up. If you love baseball and math it is a good read.

Posted by BJ | October 26, 2012 1:40 PM


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