Here’s all my ESPN content from the last week:
* Updated Sunday afternoon: My report on Dylan Bundy and Marcos Molina from Saturday night’s Aberdeen-Brooklyn game.
* A very quick note on Cuban defector Yasmani Tomás.
* Scouting notes from the California-Carolina Leagues All-Star Game, held in my backyard this year in Wilmington.
* Notes on Yankees/Orioles AA prospects, including lefties Manny Banuelos and Eddie Rodriguez.
* More notes, this time on the Ike Davis trade, some Lakewood/Hickory prospects, and Daniel Carbonell.
* This week’s Klawchat.
And now, the links…
- Science builds a better pie. We have the technology people. Let’s put it to good use. Hat tip to Chris Sprow for this one.
- Diplomacy: the board game of alpha nerds. Silly title aside, this is the best piece I’ve read on Grantland. It’s a good topic, it’s well-researched, it’s well-written, and I learned a few things too.
- Two idiot parents were responsible for a 2011 measles epidemic. Well, that’s not quite the title DailyKos used, but I like mine better.
- There’s a better way to cut cake. Of course, the best way is to just make pie instead, but this will suffice. The guy in the video, Alex Bellos, also wrote a fun book on math called Here’s Looking at Euclid.
- If you’re interested in more info on the prefrontal cortex issue I mentioned on Twitter this morning, this BBC piece from last fall explains when asking “is 25 the new cutoff point for adulthood?”
Yes, we can build a better pie. With peaches. I’ve never understood why apple pie is so beloved.
That cake thing is brilliant! Thanks for sharing that.
And cake is way better. There are entire industries built around cake. TV shows. Grocery aisles. Wedding cake, cupCAKE shops etc. Good cake is better than great pie. And pies are really hard to make really well from scratch. Really hard. And there is no cool math formula with pie cutting. Just boring triangular wedges.
But really, that link is brilliant.
Brian, that was brilliant satire. For a minute I thought you actually said cake > pie. Funny stuff!