some interesting statistics from the 2025-2026 PWHL regular season
all stats sourced from: Kyle Cushman and Hockeystats.
Boston rookie forward Abby Newhook played 29 games averaging 13 minutes a night, and was not on the ice for a single five on five goal against. She was on the ice for 17 even strength goals for, including five that she scored
Kelly Pannek leads the league in points (33), 5v5 points (18), power play points (10), and was second in primary points (23). The only point category she didn't lead in (primary points) was led by teammate Taylor Heise with 24. Pannek also shot an unreal 26.8% over her 30 games played, the highest in a single season in PWHL history for a player with a minimum 10 games played in a season
Your hits leader this year was...Hannah Miller! With 65 hits, a huge jump up from last year where she only had 13. Of course there's multiple factors contributing to that, from how the stat may be counted by each arenas scorekeeper to her having the puck less
Sarah Nurse tied for second in five on five goals (9) but did not record a single power play goal
The unluckiest player (player with biggest differential in actual goals vs expected goals) was Emily Clark, who scored 5.37 less goals than expected based on the shots she was taking
Every PWHL team gave up at least 70 goals except for two - the Boston Fleet who gave up 45 and Montreal who gave up 41. Only one team scored more than 80 goals, the Frost with 91. Only one team scored less than 60 goals, which was Toronto with 51
Ever wanted to know how to pronounce the name of our favorite Ur copper merchant, Ea-nāṣir? If you haven't looked it up, I can almost guarantee that you are saying it wrong, but fret not. I will share the secret with you (or at least the buest guess modern experts have).
The reconstruction of how to pronounce his name currently looks like this in the IPA:
[e.a.ˈnaː.t͡sʼiʁ]
If that looks daunting, keep reading.
While Ea-nāṣir may be remembered to us as a Sumerian, he did not speak Sumerian. The Sumerian language was all but extinct in his day, and Sumerians now spoke an unrelated language called Akkadian.
The infamous complaint tablets are written in Akkadian Cuneiform, which is a complicated writing system that it is difficult to figure out the pronunciation of after the fact. Pronunciations have shifted considerably during the time that modern people have studied it. All the same, we have a "buest guess" at pronunciation.
The first thing to note is that Akkadian has phonemic vowel quantity, which is a fancy way if saying that the length of a vowel is really important. Ea-nāṣir's name has four vowels, and three are short and one is long. The long one is the A with a bar on top (called a macron, pronounced MACK-ron or MAKE-ron). If you see that symbol in other languages it is probably also a long vowel (you'll see this in Arabic, Latin, and many other languages).
This also tells us where to stress the word. While Akkadian has somewhat complicated rules for stress, Ea-nāṣir's case is simple: stress the syllable with the long vowel.
The vowels themselves are the vowels you would find in Spanish, Japanese or Swahili: the E is closest to the English vowel in dress, the As are between trap and palm, just like Spanish gato, and the I is somewhere around sheep or fear.
So far, intuitively, you're probably pronouncing it something like "e-a-NAW-sir", which is getting closer to the accurate idea, but we haven't looked at the consonants yet, and unfortunately they are the hardest parts (for an English speaker).
The N is just a regular N. This isn't too surprising since N is one of the single most common sounds across all spoken languages (perhaps only beaten by M).
The R, while contested among scholars, seems to be leaning towards a "back R" or "guttural R", the way French people and some Germans do it.
That leaves the ṣ. Oh boy. It is, first of all, an affricate, like the Z in pizza. "e-a-NAAT-sir" would as such be a good try. It is, however, also something called an ejective, which is a notoriously tricky type of consonant where you block the airflow while saying it, only to release it immediately after.
You know the T-dropping that some brits do, or the way you rapidly close off air flow at the back of your throat when saying ah-ah-ah (and perhaps wagging your finger)? Try putting an air release like that right after the ts sound. If the closest you get is "e-a-NAT-suh-ir" then you are already doing a good job.
If you are a perfectionist, here is an old youtube video of a person making the noise, with decent audio.
And that's it, really. That is a complete breakdown of the best guess we have at how Ea-nāṣir's name would have been pronounced.
Oldest Wine Ever Discovered in Liquid Form Found in Untouched Roman Tomb
A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form.
Discovered during home renovations at a property in Carmona in 2019, the contents of the urn were analyzed by a team of scientists from the University of Cordoba in a study published Monday.
Study lead author José Rafael Ruiz Arrebola, a professor of organic chemistry at the university, said that the urn was found to contain cremated remains, burned ivory thought to come from a funeral pyre and around 4.5 liters (1.2 gallons) of reddish liquid.
“When the archaeologists opened the urn we almost froze,” he said. “It was very surprising.”
The team then carried out a chemical analysis of the liquid and found that it was wine.
This was a big surprise, because wine normally evaporates quickly and is chemically unstable, Ruiz Arrebola said.
“This means it is almost impossible to find what we have found,” he said, explaining that the wine had been preserved by a hermetic seal that prevented it from evaporating, but it is not clear how the seal formed.
Further chemical analysis allowed the team to identify the liquid as a white wine, as it didn’t contain syringic acid, a substance only present in red wines, Ruiz Arrebola said.
It also has a similar mineral salt composition to the fino wines produced today in the region, he added.
“It’s something unique,” said Ruiz Arrebola. “We have been lucky to find it and analyze it – it’s something you only see once in your life.”
The researchers believe their discovery dethrones the current holder of the record for oldest wine in a liquid state, the Speyer wine bottle, found in Germany, which is thought to be around 1,700 years old. However, the age of the Speyer bottle has not been confirmed by chemical analysis.
The vessel was one of six funerary urns containing remains found in the mausoleum.
The discovery of a gold ring and other valuable artifacts suggest it was built by a family of considerable wealth, Ruiz Arrebola said.
However, little else is known about their lives, because cremation would have destroyed any DNA, he explained, adding that this means it is impossible to say whether the six people were related.
Ruiz Arrebola now plans to try to work out which modern-day local wine it was most similar to, although there are hundreds to work through.
Are you a goalie who regularly shuts out the other team? You are now granted a variation of “The Wall” as your nickname, e.g. Braden Holtby.
Are you a young phenom racing out the gate for your NHL debut? You are now granted “The Kid,” e.g. Tyler Seguin et al. McDavid is called “McJesus,” so that’s fun.
Nicknames can be auto-referential. Sidney Crosby was nicknamed “Sid the Kid” early in his career. Now you will hear “Sid the Middle Aged Man” as a reference to his nickname and his age.
They can also be allo-referential. Ovechkin is called “The Great Eight” in reference to Wayne Gretzky’s nickname “The Great One.”
You also see nicknames that are less heroic and more attributive. Artemi Panerin is known as “Breadman” or Bread, since his last name sounds the Panera in “Panera Bread Company.”
You can have multiple nicknames — gaining one does not lose another. Nicknames are invoked with apropos (and maybe ironic) timeliness.
The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft
motherfucker there is a wholeass subcategory of the Aarne-Thompson-Uther index for stories about winning against the Devil
EVERYONE loves a good "very powerful, very evil, very smug dude gets his ass handed to him by an underdog that he massively underestimated" story.
and for as long as there have ever been stories about Supernatural Evil Entities That You Absolutely Shouldn't Fuck With, there have been stories about Okay But What If You Did Fuck With The Supernatural Evil And It Went Great, Actually. sometimes the supernatural evil entity is Literally The Devil, Yes That One, because those story frameworks already existed and it was super easy to slot the Devil into them once he came along.
idk what other cultures you're thinking of here but "what if we challenged the darkness and the darkness blinked first" was not a concept no one ever dared explore until Americans thought of it.
#ἐπιούσιον is a word that’s only ever used in the Lord’s prayer#with extreme controversy surrounding its translation#i suspect the joke here is that this post forces the reader to do a bunch of linguistic research#only to not come up with a conclusive answer#mimicking the experiences of those who built the tower of babel#this has been another installment of overexplaining jokes until theyre not funny anymore with autistics via @exbeekeeper
We also figured out—the hard way—that the ancients probably cut each layer of linen to the proper shape before gluing them together. For our first linothorax, we glued together 15 layers of linen to form a one centimeter-thick slab, and then tried to cut out the required shape. Large shears were defeated; bolt cutters failed. The only way we were ultimately able to cut the laminated linen slab was with an electric saw equipped with a blade for cutting metal. At least this confirmed our suspicion that linen armor would have been extremely tough. We also found out that linen stiffened with rabbit glue strikes dogs as in irresistibly tasty rabbit-flavored chew toy, and that our Labrador retriever should not be left alone with our research project.
We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.
Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?
#i've definitely read this before and i've probably reblogged it before but like.#no one in this thread is mentioning that they actually shot someone with an actual arrow in this armor.#they were like 'we've got to test this in practice' and instead of getting a mannequin or something they had an actual person wear it.
While all of this mayhem (both scientifically controlled and free-form) convinced us that our linothorax was ancient-battlefield-ready, we still felt compelled to try a real-life scenario, so Scott donned the armor and Greg shot him. And while we had confidence in our armor, our relief was still considerable when the arrowhead stuck and lodged in the armor’s outer layers, a safe distance away from flesh.
a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would've cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.
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