Has the Thoroughbreed peaked?

[cwolff]

Nice article about absolute speed. Author says (http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/thoroughbreds-are-running-as-fast-as-they-can/) that humans are within 1/10th of a second from the fastest 100m time.

http://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/pielke-feature-derby.png?w=610&h=454

[waywardgs]

That site has some great articles. I've read a few things I've really liked on there recently.

[cwolff]

That site has some great articles. I've read a few things I've really liked on there recently.

Ya it looks good. I'm enjoying it too. Can't figure out how they've monetized the site. It's very clean. Not a lot of advertising dollars on display.

[waywardgs]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-story-behind-the-worst-movie-on-imdb/

This one was interesting. About crowdsourcing bad online reviews for political purposes.