It’s been a light week for me at ESPN, by design, but I did write one follow-up draft post about which teams drafted their new #1 prospects, and conducted a Klawchat on Thursday. If you missed my draft recaps, you can find my AL and NL posts from last week.
I’ll be at Lakewood tonight for their game against Hickory, and at the Carolina-California Leagues’ All-star Game here in Wilmington on Tuesday, the 17th.
If you live in the area, I’m going to be a “guest bartender” at a charity event at Ulysses Gastropub in north Wilmington, at the intersection of Marsh Road and Silverside, on June 26th. More details to follow as I get them.
And now the links…
- Learning a second language can slow brain aging. Das ist sehr gut, ja?
- Dow Chemical is pushing to expand use of a 2,4-D, a potentially harmful herbicide. They want to sell crops genetically modified to resist 2,4-D, then have farmers use more of the herbicide to kill weeds – but this approach just creates stronger weeds and the development of even more dangerous chemicals to fight them.
- Doctors used a DNA test to identify an illness, the first time this method had been used successfully to treat a patient with an unknown pathogen.
- The FDA is at it again, overregulating the American cheese-making industry.
- Score one for consumers, though: SCOTUS ruled that POM can pursue its lawsuit against Coca-Cola. POM alleges that Coca-Cola misled consumers by labelled a drink as “blueberry-pomegranate juice” even though those two ingredients constitute just 0.5% of the total product.