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The Distance Between Top and Bottom: Revenue Dispersion in NCAA Football and Basketball

Posted on September 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Purpose and Scope Enough public data exists to measure the revenue gap between the top and bottom of NCAA football and basketball with reasonable confidence, though not with equal confidence at every level. The NCAA’s membership financial reporting system covers … Continue reading →

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The Pioneer Football League: A Non-Scholarship Refuge in Division I Football and Its Widening Gap with the Rest of the FCS

Posted on September 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The Pioneer Football League (PFL) holds an unusual place in American college football. It exists because of NCAA legislation rather than any shared athletic ambition among its founders. It has served for more than three decades as a … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Unclosed Gradient: Crew Resource Management and the Persistent Failure of Upward Challenge: On the Structural Position of the Monitoring Pilot in Steep-Authority, Time-Compressed Cockpits

Posted on September 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Crew resource management was developed in response to a specific diagnostic finding: that flight crews possessing all information necessary to avoid an accident nonetheless crashed because that information could not travel upward across the authority gradient separating first officer … Continue reading →

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Two Roads, Two Markets: Why Chains Cluster at the Interchange and Local Restaurants Sit on the Old Arterial

Posted on September 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

A White Paper on the Spatial Sorting of Food Service in American Suburbs Summary The pattern discussed here is not an accident of taste or a coincidence of leasing. It is the predictable output of four separate systems that happen … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Liquid Gold and Its Counterfeits: Olive Oil, Seed Oils, and the Economics of Substitution Fraud

Posted on September 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Prepared for household meal-planning decisions Executive Summary Three questions are usually asked as one, and they have different answers. First, whether extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is better than canola and similar refined seed oils: the honest answer is that … Continue reading →

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The Second Weekend Test: A pre-registered prediction concerning Coyote vs. Acme, word of mouth, and the difference between an audience and a demonstration

Posted on August 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

Filed August 31, 2026. Resolution date September 6, 2026. 1. Why this paper is dated Every claim in this paper about the future is made before the data exist. That is the paper’s only real contribution, and it is worth … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Coyote Vs. Acme

Posted on August 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Disclosure notice: The reviewer is a small investor in Legion M, a crowdfunding company that partnered with Ketcup! for the release of this film.] At the beginning of this movie, the filmmakers thanked those of us whose writing and posting … Continue reading →

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Two Ledgers, One Club: Owner-Affiliated Debt, the Partitioned Channel, and the Fraud Question in Los Angeles: A white paper on the financial architecture of the Los Angeles Dodgers and the standards that would catch other clubs

Posted on August 21, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. The Question, Restated The public conversation about the Dodgers has fused two arguments that have almost nothing to do with each other. The first is a live federal investigation into whether the club’s controlling owner concealed related-party financial connections … Continue reading →

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From the Feed to the Field: Content Designed to Connect Aviation Interest to Local Aviation Institutions

Posted on August 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract A large, informed, and motivated population follows aviation closely and participates in it locally at a very low rate. This is not primarily a problem of interest, awareness, or even cost. It is a problem of routing: the content … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Connectivity Rather Than Modes: An Integrated Bus, Rail, and Air Framework for American Communities

Posted on August 4, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Executive Summary The United States does not have a rural transportation problem so much as a rural transfer problem. Each mode is separately funded, separately planned, separately measured, and separately advocated for — and the trips people actually need … Continue reading →

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