Major League Baseball is trying to make sliding plays at second base safer, but, as the season starts, the debate has shifted to whether MLB has gone overboard with regulations. This started in ...

Before there were apps for tablets and smartphones, before mathematics education software was easily installed on personal computers, before electronic calculators entered professional practice and ...

The game of football is constantly evolving as it gets more aggressive as players get faster and stronger. But, the core issue of player safety, especially for the league's most valuable assets, ...

PITTSBURGH -- There were many reasons the Pitt Panthers came up just short against Wake Forest in Week 8 and allowed what looked like a sure win to slip through their fingers, but head coach Pat ...

Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons wants the NFL to get its act together when it comes to running quarterbacks. Currently, rules that are meant to protect quarterbacks are also being exploited by ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — They weren’t exactly a “fad” (you couldn’t wear one, a barber or hairdresser couldn’t shave or sculpt one), but slide rules nevertheless became what might be called academically ...

The May 2006 issue of Scientific American (www.sciam.com, available only to subscribers, sorry) has an excellent article, “When Slide Rules Ruled”, on the history, development, use, success, and swift ...

I still use a slide rule. I find it very efficient, much more so than using a computer often times. But I find people at work constantly asking what that "funny looking ruler" is. <BR>A quick google ...

Unless you are above a certain age, the only time you may have seen a slide rule (or a slip stick, as we sometimes called them) is in the movies. You might have missed it, but slide rules show up in ...

It is no secret that we like slide rules around the Hackaday bunker, and among our favorites are the cylindrical slide rules. [Chris Staecker] likes them, too, and recently even 3D printed a version.