Hi Friends! Hope you're doing well. I'm 13 today and what better time to preview the 2026-2027 NBA season. The season begins October 20th with a triple-header where Joe Mazzulla’s Celtics travel to Detroit to play against a reigning Eastern Conference #1 seed Pistons at 12pm PDT, the most hyped offseason team 76ers with newly added LeBron James and Jaylen Brown head to the Garden to play Jalen Brunson’s reigning champ NY Knicks at 4pm PDT, and a Western Conference Finals reve

Hi Friends! Hope you're doing well. As you know music and neuroscience are two of my favorite subjects. In my most viewed blog (over 1,200 views) Music x Yoga, I began exploring this intersection. Today we're going to dive a bit deeper into two musical aspects I have, which are super rare, how they work in the brain, and how you can train your brain to develop them: Perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. My goal in this blog, as someone with both, is to explain what they are, how

Hi Friends! The final five rounds (Rounds 7–11) turned both sections into real medal races: Uzbekistan recovered from its only Open loss to win at home, while China built and then protected a narrow lead to take the Women’s title, as predicted in Chess Olympiad Part I. For our #TLDR readers, the final podiums were Open: Uzbekistan, India, Germany; Women: China, Kazakhstan, India. There were tons of great stories from the second half of the tournament, and we'll share a few of

Hi Friends! Hope you're doing well. Today we're going to take you on a journey to Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, an amazing global get together that happens every couple years with the best chess players from all around the world, representing over 200 federations. Six rounds have passed and tomorrow is the rest day. The way this works is it's a team Swiss, meaning you get paired with another team at your score and your board 1 plays their board 1, bo

Hi Friends! The 2026-2027 NFL season opens this evening at 5:20 pacific time at Lumen Field, and my Dad (Seahawks fan) is going with my Uncle (Patriots fan)! It's a Super Bowl rematch between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. In case you forgot, the Seahawks beat the Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX led by the historic Dark Side Defense (see DVOA and the 2025 Seahawks). For my #TLDR readers, here is a quick summary of my 2026-2027 NFL predictions before I dive