[macrael]

Very cool story. The technical bit at the heart of it, that Mark applied stats to determine the safe amount of column supports for ceilings rather than relying on various engineering calculations based on physics that all disagreed, is great. And it's wild that he had the data to collect those stats because of regulators requiring reporting on it, but that that data had sat around un-used for decades waiting for someone to actually turn it into safety.

[dredmorbius]

Lewis slipped in the fact that this was similar to the situation in baseball. On which he's also written a book.