{"id":3969,"date":"2015-03-14T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2015-03-14T20:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T00:30:49","slug":"saturday-five-31415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/14\/saturday-five-31415\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 3\/14\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy &pi; day! May all your infinite series converge.<\/p>\n<p>My Insider content this week included a post on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1xgJXMH>Danny Salazar, Kendall Graveman, and others<\/a> from a Cleveland\/Oakland spring tilt, and a draft blog post on <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1CdDfgp>Kolby Allard, Lucas Herbert, and Kyle Molnar<\/a>. My weekly <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1DfBYXH>Klawchat<\/a> transcript is up.<\/p>\n<p>My latest boardgame review over at <i>Paste<\/i> covered the Kennerspiel des Jahres-nominated strategy game <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1D8cIlS>Rococo<\/a>, where players run haberdasher\/dressmaking firms in a game that combines deckbuilding, resource management, and worker placement mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/saturdayfive.png\" alt=\"saturdayfive\" width=\"74\" height=\"43\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3812\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re interested in eating parakeet, muskrat, or pigeon, head to Amsterdam, where the <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thesalt\/2015\/03\/09\/391830943\/pigeon-parakeet-and-pony-amsterdam-food-truck-serves-maligned-meat> The Kitchen Of The Unwanted Animal food truck<\/a> serves up all kinds of non-traditional meats, including a horse burger called the My Little Pony.<\/li>\n<li>A study published in <i>Molecular and Cellular Oncology<\/i> found that oleocanthol, a phenol compound found in extra virgin olive oil, <a href=http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23723556.2015.1006077#abstract>killed cancer cells by breaking down their membranes<\/a>, yet left neighboring non-cancer cells alone.<\/li>\n<li>The New Jersey Senate <a href=http:\/\/www.nj.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2015\/03\/nj_senate_committee_approves_restrictions_on_relig.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter>is moving to tighten the \u201creligious exemptions\u201d to vaccination requirements<\/a>. These exemptions are bogus, unenforceable, and unnecessary even under the First Amendment (you retain the option to home-school your children if you&#8217;re still too ignorant to vaccinate). My only issue with this piece is that the writer, Susan Livio, didn&#8217;t qualify or question the claim of one mother who said her child was injured by a vaccine \u2013 and Livio got huffy with me on Twitter when I pointed this lack of verification (kind of a big deal in journalism) out.<\/li>\n<li>More vaccine stuff: A strong overview of the <a href=http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/utibe-effiong\/breaking-the-silence-on-autism-and-vaccines_b_6846586.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067>scientific evidence that vaccines do not (and can not) cause autism<\/a>, passed along by former big leaguer <a href=https:\/\/twitter.com\/chuckiefick>Chuckie Fick<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The evolutionary case for <a href=http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/archaeology\/2015\/02\/how-modern-humans-ate-their-way-world-dominance>how man ate his way to \u201cworld dominance.\u201d<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/thismanlegislates.tumblr.com\/>This Man Legislates<\/a>, a new Tumblr dedicated to elected officials who saw or do horrible things \u2013 racist\/sexist remarks, spousal abuse, giving away an adopted child to a man who later molested her. You know, the kind of behavior we&#8217;ve come to expect from the people who write our laws.\n<\/li>\n<li>A famous Hillary Clinton quote <a href=http:\/\/jezebel.com\/dear-madonna-i-am-not-hilary-clinton-and-hillary-didn-1690180989>was never actually uttered by the former First Lady<\/a>; it&#8217;s from Erin Gloria Ryan, writing about Hillary for Jezebel in 2012. (And her main point, that a woman&#8217;s looks should not be part of any discussion of her policies or her suitability for office, remains true no matter who said it.)\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy &pi; day! May all your infinite series converge. My Insider content this week included a post on Danny Salazar, Kendall Graveman, and others from a Cleveland\/Oakland spring tilt, and a draft blog post on Kolby Allard, Lucas Herbert, and Kyle Molnar. My weekly Klawchat transcript is up. My latest boardgame review over at Paste [&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":[60,800,190,660,807],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boardgames","tag-evolution","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3970,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/3970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}