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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two great pieces on the level of unconscious genius that goes into fast-paced athletics.
First is one from the blog The Situationist.  It uses baseball players as a specific example.
The other is an older, but related piece from the [...]

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Somewhat sad news.  Chess champion Bobby Fischer is dead.  The story of his life is one of great triumph followed by great tragedy:
Fisher went on to become a bizarre, shadowy figure (hence the irony of the title of the 1993 movie about a child chess prodigy, Searching [...]