Tag: Races

Betting Big at the Randwick Races

We’d missed one race already, and upon arrival, our friends were more concerned with getting drinks than heading to the track. Matt and I, fed up with waiting for the disorderly drunks to buy their bottles, went to find a betting stall before the second gun went. “Ten dollars on horse ei...

Ending the myth of the White Race

The White Race was invented in the 17th century. There were Imperialists in a few Western European nation states that had military and economic power. They wanted to justify the rather brutal things they were doing, and inventing a theory of racialism was a perfect way to trick themselves into not h...

The Cosmic Race Between Stars and Black Holes

Over the full cosmic history of the past 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang, supermassive black holes and stars produced roughly the same amount of energy output. Since both engines feed on gas, this suggests that their growth inside galaxies was self-regulated by their output. Indeed, we know th...