Yoshinobu Yamamoto Cy Young doesn’t mesh with Dodgers’ plans

TORONTO — For a couple moments Tuesday afternoon, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts spit out a rapid-fire version of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s biography, or at least his Baseball Reference page. World Series winner? Check. World Baseball Classic winner? Olympic Games gold medalist? Check. Sawamura Award winner, presented annually to Japan’s best pitcher? Check. Cy Young award winner? No. Or,…

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The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology

Our go-to tale of resistance to technology is the story of the Luddites: In England in the early nineteenth century, skilled weavers and craftsmen found their livelihoods threatened by automated machinery, so they began to attack textile factories, destroying the machinery with hammers. Less familiar are the revolutionaries who used large clubs to smash thousands…

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