Julien Blondeau, who researches thermodynamics and fluid dynamics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, writes us about his most unusual research project: I can now perfectly explain why, for instance, field hockey players score more than football players, although the fields have approximately the same size, the number of players is exactly the same, the goals […]
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Canadian Crime Rates in the Penalty Box
The game of hockey generates both action and statistics. Does it generate crime, now more than ever? This police study analyzes that and other questions: “Canadian Crime Rates in the Penalty Box,” Simon Demers, arXiv:1810.05118, 2018. The author, an Audit Manager in the Planning, Research & Audit Section of the Vancouver Police Department, reports: “Over […]
Hockey-related injuries: Robot surgery
The Wall Street Journal reports a new kind of hockey-related injury: DOVER, N.H.—Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a small community hospital in this coastal New England town, used a college hockey game to showcase its new technological marvel: a $1.4 million surgical robot named after Leonardo da Vinci. As the University of New Hampshire battled the University of […]