Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson is a professor at Cornell University and the co-author of The Numbers Game: Why Everything You Know About Soccer Is Wrong. Follow him on Twitter.

Sports Nut
Aug. 12 2013 7:55 AMThe Great LevelingWhy soccer teams score fewer goals than they did 100 years ago.Chris Anderson and David Sally
  News & Politics
Propublica
March 1 2015 2:35 PM Air Marshals Behaving Badly And more investigative reporting, as rounded up by ProPublica. Terry Parris Jr.
What Does the DHS Funding Fiasco Mean for John Boehner?
Boris Nemtsov Was Brusque, Impatient, and Rejected Everything That Vladimir Putin Represents
Netanyahu’s Speech in Congress Is a Revolting and Dangerous Gamble
Scott Walker Didn’t Compare Unions to ISIS. He Just Said Something Foolish.
The Next Big Climate Fight Will Be About How Much Meat You Eat
Why It’s Hard for Republican Presidential Candidates to Speak Honestly About Income Inequality
Carly Fiorina Knows How to Speak CPAC 
  Business
Business Insider
Feb. 28 2015 10:00 AM Snapchat's Ambitious Plan to Become More Powerful Than TV Nicholas Carlson
Venmo Issues Apology for Security Shortcomings
Looks Like Uber Got Hacked
Venmo’s Terrible Excuse for Not Telling You When Someone Steals Your Money
Drugs and Prostitutes Are a Surprisingly Large Chunk of Italy’s Economy
The Two Women Behind The Dress Definitively Reveal Its Color
The Enormous Black-White Wealth Gap Is Getting Even Wider
Barnes & Noble’s College Bookstores Are Becoming Their Own Business
  Life
Quora
March 1 2015 7:23 AM What Happens When You Copy or Scan a Mirror? Quora Contributor
Why Facebook’s Quest for Gender Sensitivity Is Doomed
This Bangkok Hotel Parking Lot Has an Impressive Fertility Shrine
This Brilliant Beehive Delivers Honey on Tap Without Stressing Out the Bees
A Tourist Map of Occupied Paris, Issued to German Soldiers During WWII
The Surprising History of Cute
How Does a Betta Fish Know When Food Is in Its Aquarium?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Aaron Schock 
  Double X
Doublex
Feb. 27 2015 4:15 PM The Hunting Ground The failures of a new documentary about rape on college campuses. Emily Yoffe
Todd Akin Is Thinking About Running for Senate. Legitimately.
This Drug for Binge-Eating Disorder May Be Shady. That Doesn’t Mean the Disease Isn't Real.
Why Do Women Vote Republican?  
Women May Not Seek Help for Heart Attacks Because They Fear Being Seen as Hypochondriacs
Kim Gordon on Kurt Cobain, Breast Milk, and Discovering Thurston Moore’s Affair
Idaho Lawmaker Who Doesn’t Understand Female Anatomy Knows What’s Good for Women
The Gender Wage Gap Is Especially Terrible in Hollywood
  Slate Plus
Politics
Feb. 27 2015 9:30 AM What Happened at Slate This Week? Josh Keating read about making music in the Anthropocene and journeyed into the heart of coding darkness. Joshua Keating
Slate’s Copy Desk Awards Its Redline of the Month
Why Adults Shouldn’t Read YA (Audio)
Hang Up and Listen Bonus Segment: Another Chapter in Deflategate?
Walking Dead Podcast Early Release: Episode 11, "The Distance" 
  Arts
Brow Beat
March 1 2015 4:02 PM Carly Rae Jepsen Returns With a Song That Is Somehow More Catchy Than “Call Me Maybe” Sharan Shetty
Watch Dakota Johnson Join ISIS in This Divisive SNL Sketch
This New York City Neighborhood Was “Invisible” in the ’80s
How George Lois, ’60s Ad Man and Art Director, May Be the Real-Life Don Draper
Watch Kanye West Sing “Only One” in a Beam of Light on a Norwegian-Swedish Talk Show
Who Was the Better Tocqueville? Karl Ove Knausgaard, Bernard-Henri Lévy, or Stephen Fry?
How Do You Play The Originalist?
  Technology
Future Tense
Feb. 27 2015 6:19 PM Google's Plan for a New Googleplex Could Not Be Googlier Will Oremus
Post-Adware Disaster, Lenovo Is Trying to Clean Up Its Act
When Tech Companies Betray Consumers, Why Don’t They Own Up to It?
California Is Finally Getting Its Hyperloop. No, It Won’t Help Your Commute.
How Your Fitness Tracker Could Increase Your Health Insurance Costs Someday
Watch Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor to Disprove Global Warming
How a Lack of Imagination in Technological Design Harms the Disabled
  Health & Science
Bad Astronomy
March 1 2015 7:30 AM Me vs Hank Green: SciShow Quiz Show Phil Plait
Tickets to Space
How Do You Get Baby Llamas? It’s Ridiculously Complicated.
An Expert’s Lessons From the Dress: Why Don’t We All See the Same Thing?
The Argon Glow of an Exploded Star
Precision Medicine Needs Precision Questions—Especially About Sex
Kepler-432b: A Doomed Planet Orbiting a Doomed Star
  Sports
Sports Nut
Feb. 26 2015 7:41 PM Game, Set, and (Fixed) Match Pro tennis has a match-fixing problem in its lower ranks. Ben Rothenberg
What’s the Hardest Shot in Bowling? It’s Not the 7-10 Split.
Has ASU Discovered the Holy Grail of Free-Throw Distraction?
How John Wall Became the Most Entertaining Player in the NBA
Dean Smith’s Political Approach to Being a Coach Is Missed Now More Than Ever
Why Handball’s World Championship in Qatar Should Worry World Cup Fans
Seattle Didn’t Throw Away the Super Bowl. The Patriots Won It.