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  • Episode 023: Sports Part 1: History/Physics/Injuries

    Episode 023: Sports Part 1: History/Physics/Injuries

    Recorded October 23rd, 2014 This episode contains: Special Guest Ben Dorst from the Pure BS podcast, the sports that we played, the reasons that we have sports, how sports may have evolved, the Mesoamerican ballgame Ollamaliztli or ‘pitz’, sacrifice and competition, the physics of sports balls, throwing a baseball with the magnus effect, concussions and…