7/02/2002
It's heavy sledding compared to most of what's written about the Winston Cup, but "Social Science at 190 MPH" by David Ronfeldt of the International Studies Group at RAND explains why large-track NASCAR racing is like complex networks and self-organizing systems and is a metaphor for life and society. Plus it has one of the few coherent explanations of drafting that you'll read. This is too cool.
