I’m still on vacation, enjoying Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade with the family and getting some reading time in too, but all the stuff I filed for ESPN before leaving is going up:
* My top 50 free agent rankings, with scouting reports on each.
* My offseason buyers’ guides to:
→ Starting pitchers
→ Relief pitchers
→ Outfielders
→ Corner infielders
→ Middle infielders
The guide to catchers will go up Sunday, and on Monday my NL ROY ballot column will go up after the winner is announced.
And now, the links…
- Did a Johns Hopkins scientist write a journal article saying that the flu shot is dangerous? Of course not, but some idiots are still repeating that drivel.
- The truth about cast-iron skillets. Mythbusting from Serious Eats.
- A good explanation of the difference between fair trade and direct trade in coffee, featuring one of my favorite local roasters, Phoenix’s Cartel Coffee Lab. Related: The case for drinking as much coffee as you like.
- A New York Times piece on great donuts in New York City. A real public service, I say.
- Why kids sext, from The Atlantic. I’m a few years away from worrying about this crap, I think.
- A non-GMO way to get tastier tomatoes. Genetic modification is one way, just not the only way. Meanwhile, that rumor some moron shared on your facebook page about GMO corn killing 37 million bees in Canada? Bogus. They were probably killed by neonics, a kind of pesticide we need to consider banning.
FYI typo “fly shot”
Fixed – thanks.
The case for drinking coffee is a solid one, and I certainly do enjoy it. But it definitely matters what one puts in it. Drinking it black is one thing; mixing it with nasty chemicals that are in powdered creamers, or even milk (which is bad for you despite what the AMA was preaching all my life)—not to mention sugar—is quite another issue.
I saw the articles on milk and longevity go by this week, but the two underlying studies can’t be definitive with such small samples, can they? Seems like a great example of where we need more studies to feed into a meta-study that looks at them all.
EDIT: actually, I think I confused those studies with those of another subject. The milk (d-galactose) study was very disturbing, although I don’t drink much of it straight and do eat a lot of yogurt.
Link fir fair trade coffee links to flu shot article.
Also fixed. Thanks.
You could link to J Kenji-Alt every week.
Does anyone have a recommendation on using honey in coffee in place of artificial sweetener? How much is needed as a per pack replacement?
@Nigel: I don’t sweeten my coffee, but I do use agave nectar in tea. Maybe half a teaspoon of agave instead of 3/4 tsp of white or raw sugar.