{"id":3720,"date":"2014-11-29T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2014-11-29T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T15:30:05","slug":"saturday-five-112914","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/29\/saturday-five-112914\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 11\/29\/14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of you are new to the dish \u2013 welcome, thanks for stopping by \u2013 so here&#8217;s the point of this post. On most Saturdays, I put together two sets of links, one to everything I wrote for my day job over the last seven days, and another to interesting articles (originally just five, but that&#8217;s more of a minimum now) from the same period, usually about non-baseball topics like science or food. Comments are welcome as long as everyone&#8217;s civil, and I&#8217;m always taking suggestions for links for the next post.<\/p>\n<p>I was as busy with baseball posts as I&#8217;ve been during any previous Thanksgiving week, with five over the last five days:<\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1rEh8MX>The Josh Donaldson trade<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1tucR8X>Arizona signing Yasmani Tomas<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1ph1mWJ>Boston signing Pablo Sandoval<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1viYhXe>Boston signing Hanley Ramirez<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1y6aDSq>The White Sox&#8217; and A&#8217;s&#8217; signings from last weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been updating my offseason guides\/rankings, with the <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1uLIy2t>top 60 boardgames ranking<\/a> before I went dark on Twitter and the <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1xACGGC>favorite cookbooks guide<\/a> right after.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the weekly links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>At this time of year, many people with disposable income will think about giving money to charity \u2013 it&#8217;s the holiday spirit, or maybe just advice from the accountant. NPR&#8217;s The Salt has a great piece up on <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2014\/11\/24\/366300894\/for-the-next-food-drive-go-for-the-canned-tuna-not-the-saltines>what goods to donate to food pantries<\/a>. A little thought goes a long way. Food pantries can always, always use money, which, since I seldom buy canned foods anyway, is my preferred method of helping \u2013 and since food pantries focus on small, achievable goals, they&#8217;re among the best places to donate.<\/li>\n<li>Two good pieces I read this week about Ferguson, Missouri, and the murder of Michael Brown: This <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ferguson-wasnt-black-rage-against-copsit-was-white-rage-against-progress\/2014\/08\/29\/3055e3f4-2d75-11e4-bb9b-997ae96fad33_story.html>piece by Prof. Carol Anderson<\/a> from the <i>Washington Post<\/i>, arguing that the core issue is &#8220;white rage&#8221; against racial progress; and a piece from the British left-wing paper <i>The Guardian<\/i>, <a href=http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2014\/nov\/25\/ferguson-grand-jury-decision-annotated>annotating the grand jury decision<\/a> with critical notes on subtext.<\/li>\n<li>The Embryo Project at Arizona State tweeted me this link to their site, on <a href=http:\/\/embryo.asu.edu\/pages\/origin-species-chapter-thirteen-mutual-affinities-organic-beings-morphology-embryology>Charles Darwin&#8217;s study of embryos<\/a> as part of his argument in favor of evolution as the mechanism behind the origins of species. Speaking of which, <a href=http:\/\/www.calamitiesofnature.com\/archive\/?c=559>this graphic<\/a> plotting countries&#8217; GDP against what percent of their populations believe in evolution is distressing. But there&#8217;s good news \u2013 ornithologists discovered <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/11\/25\/366504669\/new-bird-species-sings-sweet-in-sulawesi>a new bird species<\/a> on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.<\/li>\n<li>A little basic for this crowd, but this <i>Washington Post<\/i> piece reminds you <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/11\/29\/have-a-cold-dont-ask-your-doctor-for-antibiotics\/>not to ask for antibiotics when you have a cold<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A powerful piece from the <i>New York Times<\/i> by a mother, remembering <a href=http:\/\/parenting.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/26\/intensive-thanksgiving\/?smid=tw-NYTMotherlode&#038;seid=auto&#038;_r=0>the Thanksgiving her then two-year-old son spent in intensive care<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe it was buried by Ferguson and the holiday, but the news that Alaska&#8217;s Mount Pavlof <a href=http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/11\/26\/pavlof_volcano_eruption_seen_by_landsat8.html>went boom again<\/a> this past week should have gotten a lot more play. The eruption column reached nine miles; by comparison, the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which was so powerful that it lowered global temperatures for the next year-plus, reached twelve miles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of you are new to the dish \u2013 welcome, thanks for stopping by \u2013 so here&#8217;s the point of this post. 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