The answer is no.  And you don’t have to know related principles about the increasing speeds in fluids causing decreasing pressures and the like, either, just in case you were curious about that, too.  (Editor: that’s Bernoulli’s...

     Ever heard of alpha-synuclein?  Ever heard of Lewy bodies?   They’re proteins (actually, Lewy bodies consist of alpha-synuclein).  These abnormal deposits develop in brain cells and are now believed to most likely be a...

Editor’s Note:  After careful consideration, and with no desire to squelch or censor free speech and first amendment rights, a decision has been made to foreclose the final edition (Part V) of Lao Du’s alleged  history of ping pong.  This judgement, to...

     In the Bronze Age (beginning 3000 BC), the rackets were so heavy you needed two hands to hold them, thus leading to a rather bizarre and unhygienic spitting of balls from the mouth in order to serve and to begin a point. The calamitous result...

     The Paleozoic era saw little improvement or modification in ping pong rackets.  The fossil record shows that the blade might have increased by one ply over the course of 300 million years.  It was truly deep into the Triassic and...

     Just to refresh your memories, in Part I we learned that some age-old original ping pong paddles used stretched vellum attached to a handle.  This was, in fact, a primitive form of a sandpaper bat.  It was also revealed that soon...

Prologue:  In the beginning it was called just “ping,” but for our purposes in this historical account, I will be referring to it as “ping pong” just to make sure some of our readers don’t confuse it for the sound your car makes when it’s out of tune or when you...

    Recently I have experienced a rather depressing phenomenon, something extraordinary for me in that I had not been through something like this that keeps on repeating.  It’s this:  I find myself ahead in a game, maybe 8-3 or 9-3 – in other...

Maybe I live in another world, another time.  I got a friend who has started calling me Retro Man, but I don’t care.  I know I can’t bring back Whitney Reed (and amateur tennis from the late 50's), but I can’t identify with any of these keh-zillionaires on those grass...

   We’ve got to get rid of these techno-trick bats and those flimflam artists using them.  Anyone who plays with pips out, for example, should be expelled … and propelled out of the club.   Banished for life.  Post haste.  The only...