{"id":3263,"date":"2014-03-23T02:03:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2014-03-23T02:04:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T06:04:10","slug":"saturday-five-32214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/saturday-five-32214\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 3\/22\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN content this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1r5SiSk\" title=\"Top 50 prospects for this year's draft\">Top 50 prospects for this year&#8217;s draft<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/PM1g9p\" title=\"Breakout player picks for 2014\">Breakout player picks for 2014<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1eyEXNh\" title=\"Cubs A-ball prospects\">Cubs A-ball prospects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1r0OwcV\" title=\"Julio Urias and other Dodgers prospects\">Julio Urias and other Dodgers prospects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1iCXYiY\" title=\"Scouting prep LHP Brady Aiken\">Scouting prep LHP Brady Aiken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1ifvT09\" title=\"Scouting prep catcher Alex Jackson\">Scouting prep catcher Alex Jackson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1hOzYqC\" title=\"This week's Klawchat\">This week&#8217;s Klawchat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, five interesting links from my non-sports meanderings on the Internet this week:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/health\/2014\/03\/17\/289042381\/doctors-use-3-d-printing-to-help-a-baby-breathe>Doctors use 3-D printing to help a baby breathe<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure science fiction ever quite foresaw what 3-D printing allows us to do.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/3\/12\/mathematical-equationcouldhelpfindmissingmalaysianplane.html>Using Bayes&#8217; Theorem to locate missing planes<\/a>. Mostly linked because Bayes&#8217; Theorem is awesome and not that well understood.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/feministing.com\/2014\/03\/17\/100-serial-rapists-identified-after-detroit-finally-processes-untested-rape-kits\/>100 serial rapists identified after Detroit finally processes untested rape kits<\/a>. How many victims could have been spared? Detroit isn&#8217;t alone in this problem, but it certainly doesn&#8217;t help its reputation as a third-world city within a first-world country.<\/p>\n<p>* Is <a href=http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/02\/23\/whole-foods-america-s-temple-of-pseudoscience.html>Whole Foods America&#8217;s Temple of Pseudoscience<\/a>, as this piece claims? I think the author is trying to make a broader point about which anti-science views we lambast and which we ignore, but he kind of glosses over how that section of the typical Whole Foods store takes up maybe 10% of the square footage. Linked within that piece: <a href=http:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/2012\/07\/23\/human-ancestors-were-nearly-all-vegetarians\/>An actual &#8220;paleo&#8221; diet would be vegetarian<\/a>. Eat what you want, as long as it&#8217;s good food, just don&#8217;t pretend this is somehow the &#8220;right&#8221; diet for our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.jpeds.com\/content\/JPEDSDeStefano>The Risk of Autism Is Not Increased by &#8220;Too Many Vaccines Too Soon&#8221;<\/a>. Bookmark it the next time some idiot trots out this stupid anti-vaccine claim. It&#8217;s time to end non-medical exemptions for vaccination of schoolchildren, before we get a fresh measles or pertussis epidemic here.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I appreciate those of you who saw fit <a href=https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ondh29mdj61voat\/cubfanwhiners.png>to smack down some whiners<\/a> on the Cub prospect piece&#8217;s comment thread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN content this week: Top 50 prospects for this year&#8217;s draft Breakout player picks for 2014 Cubs A-ball prospects Julio Urias and other Dodgers prospects Scouting prep LHP Brady Aiken Scouting prep catcher Alex Jackson This week&#8217;s Klawchat And now, five interesting links from my non-sports meanderings on the Internet this week: * Doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[190,660],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}