"Jackie's story was not the focus, only the setup for commentary on institutional conflict of interest in adjudicating sexual assault, an issue that did not disappear with the credibility of the article," he emailed. "Not even UVA has claimed otherwise."

"Emotions drive athlete behavior much more than rational thought," Adam Naylor of Boston University told New York Magazine in June. "Intense emotions can lead to incredible performances, but they can also lead to total boneheadedness. Frustration is known to lead to aggression."

Behavior on the field that by every estimation is stupid – like biting or stomping – is almost always extemporaneous, explained Thomas Fawcett of the University of Salford when he expounded on Suarez's biting demons in 2013. "It's not pre-planned – it's a very spontaneous, emotional response," he told the BBC. "He's doing it on impulse."

Is it wrong to treat a person as an animal to be trained? Perhaps a better question is whether it is wrong to blunder along doing things that encourage your loved ones in their bad behavior. The image of the "full-blown angst-ridden drama starring the two of us and our poor nervous dog" really struck me. It may take more wit and nerve than you have to turn down that role if you've got a fired-up, scenery-chewing emoter in your house insisting that you co-star.

"At first we were thinking that they wouldn't drink on their own because, you know, a lot of animals just won't touch the stuff. But they seem to tolerate it pretty well and be somewhat willing to consume it."...

Listen to the audio, and you'll hear that the finches' song gets a bit quieter and just a little slurred, or as [neuroscientis Christopher] Olson puts it, "a bit less organized in their sound production"...

Norse's senior vice president of market development said that just the quickness of the FBI's conclusion that North Korea was responsible was a red flag.

"When the FBI made the announcement so soon after the initial hack was unveiled, everyone in the [cyber] intelligence community kind of raised their eyebrows at it, because it's really hard to pin this on anyone within days of the attack," Kurt Stammberger said in an interview as his company briefed FBI investigators Monday afternoon....

"Whenever we see some indicators or leads that North Korea may be involved, when we follow those leads, they turn out to be dead ends," Stammberger said. "Do I think it's likely that [U.S. government officials] have a smoking gun? … We think that we would have seen key indicators by now in our investigation that would point to the North Koreans: We don't see those data points. So if they've got them, they should share some of them at least with the community and make a more convincing case."