Inside Baseball’s Desperate Effort to Save Itself From Irrelevance - The Atlantic

When Manfred took over as commissioner, he made it clear that speeding up the game was a priority. He instituted a set of relatively minor adjustments that nibbled a few minutes and seconds away here and there—limitations on warm-up throws, in-game conferences, and pitching changes; eliminating the need to throw four outside pitches to complete an intentional walk. But this did not address the biggest drag on time: pitchers and batters futzing around between deliveries.

So starting this season, excessive delay would be punishable by balls and strikes, a direct performance cost that could influence the outcome of the game and the players’ statistics. After two unsuccessful pickoff throws by a pitcher, an unsuccessful third one will advance the runner a base. “One thing you learn about discipline in baseball is, uh, that money is a very weak deterrent,” Manfred told me with a resigned laugh. “The things that work affect what players really care about: Do you win or lose? Does it affect how well you do your job?”

There’s a New Drug for Eczema—Actually, a Ton of New Drugs - The Atlantic

Doctors who treat severe eczema now speak of pre- and post-Dupixent eras: “It changed the landscape of having eczema forever,” says Brett King, a dermatologist at Yale. Today, a half dozen novel treatments are available for the skin condition, all of which work by quieting the same biological pathway in eczema; dozens more are in clinical trials. Unlike older drugs, these new ones are precisely targeted and in many cases startlingly effective.

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Calculating the Shadow of a Beach Umbrella - WSJ

Projective geometry has its roots in the study of perspective drawing. Artists developed some understanding of perspective intuitively, but a formal treatment was introduced by the Renaissance architects Filippo Brunelleschi and Leon Battista Alberti in the 15th century. Mathematicians started developing the field a couple of hundred years later, asking questions about what properties of an object are preserved under projection.