Saturday five, 10/24/15.

I had one Insider post this past week, covering Arizona Fall League prospects, and will have another one up this weekend now that my trip to the Valley is done. I also held my regular Klawchat on Thursday.

I’m taking vacation this upcoming week, so I’ll be off social media for a bit and won’t have any Insider posts after the second AFL dispatch goes up. I may still chat Thursday, however, now that those are mine and a bit more loose and fun.

And now, the links…

• The Guardian helpfully points out that you are probably wrong about almost everything. Granted, they’re talking about public ignorance of issues around immigration and religion, but still, the headline holds true for you (and, yes, for me too).
• From Wired, Julianne Ross writes that the growing myth that online life isn’t “real” or authentic is both false and harmful.
• On World Polio Day, the General Secretary of Rotary International talks about how engagement and education can fight vaccine denial. Polio is still endemic in only two countries, along the shared border of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• If you live in Oklahoma, well, I’m sorry, but you can do something useful: Call your legislators and, if they’re on the Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, demand that they pass the measure to eliminate non-medical exemptions for childhood vaccinations. Don’t let the “vaccine choice” term in the article fool you: that’s pure, unadulterated science denial.
• Food allergies are real, so please don’t pretend you have them if you don’t, at least when eating out.
• There’s a hamlet – that’s fancy New York speak for “podunk” – on eastern Long Island where homeowners can only sell their houses to purchasers of primarily German descent thanks to a Nazi-era compact designed to keep the community German, and, one would assume, not Jewish. The lawsuit currently in process seems like a slam-dunk discrimination case.
• There’s a Kickstarter live now for a reissue and update to Kill Doctor Lucky, a sort of anti-Clue boardgame from 1996.
• Russ Parsons of the LA Times writes about the best cookbook in the world, which isn’t one book but varies depending on where you’re asking the question.
• Mindfulness may increase your susceptibility to false memories, according to a single study published in Psychology Science. I wouldn’t stop meditating just because of one research project, especially since the benefits of mindfulness vastly outweigh this potential negative.