{"id":3976,"date":"2015-03-21T15:04:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=3976"},"modified":"2015-03-21T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T19:04:03","slug":"saturday-five-32115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/21\/saturday-five-32115\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 3\/21\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN Insider content from the last week:<\/p>\n<p>* My <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/18XdAfM>breakout player picks for 2015<\/a>.<br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1CyRYma>A suggested rule change to cover the Kris Byrant situation, plus Jonathan Gray, Tyler Matzek, Yasmany Tomas, and Yoan Lopez<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1BPPX3e>Javier Baez, Brandon Finnegan, Danny Duffy, Kyle Schwarber<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1EX4EVX>Carlos Rodon and Tyler Danish<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1wMoU9X>Taijuan Walker and Rubby de la Rosa<\/a><br \/>\n* A draft blog post on Arizona infielders <a href=http:\/\/klaw.me\/1wRNvtT>Kevin Newman and Scott Kingery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be on the ESPN game broadcasts on Tuesday (Phillies at Atlanta) and Friday (Red Sox at Atlanta), as well as some postgame content to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s been a rash of suicides and attempts in Palo Alto, prompting this sound and accessible piece on how <a href=http:\/\/www.paloaltoonline.com\/news\/2015\/03\/16\/guest-opinion-keep-calm-and-parent-on#comment_form>parents can try to help decrease the risks<\/a> in their own children.<\/li>\n<li>This week in terrifying food science news: <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/goatsandsoda\/2015\/03\/20\/394064680\/for-the-love-of-pork-antibiotic-use-on-farms-skyrockets-worldwide>Antibiotic use at pork farms is soaring<\/a>, and it&#8217;s not just in the United States. Of course, we can&#8217;t expect other countries to ban the practice if we refuse to do it ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>A Virginia middle school suspended a sixth-grader and referred him for substance-abuse counseling <a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/03\/16\/virginia-school-suspends-an-11-year-old-for-one-year-over-a-leaf-that-wasnt-marijuana\/>because he brought a leaf to school<\/a>. No, not a marijuana leaf, or any other kind of illicit drug. This is zero-tolerance policy run completely amok, benefiting no one.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s made the rounds, but just in case you haven&#8217;t seen it, <a href=http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/113226\/forget-your-team-your-online-violence-toward-girls-and-women-is-what-can-kiss-my-ass>Ashley Judd is seriously sick of your misogynistic bullshit<\/a>. Death threats are illegal, so why aren&#8217;t rape threats? More importantly, why does Twitter persistently refuse to do anything about it?<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.citylab.com\/cityfixer\/2013\/01\/could-these-crazy-intersections-make-us-safer\/4467\/>Making busy intersections safer<\/a>. I imagine the initial reluctance to accept these new designs would be huge \u2013 never change anything, anywhere \u2013 but they&#8217;re fascinating to me as someone who used to love road maps and seeing different streets and intersections as a kid, but also to me as someone who drives all the time and worries a lot about getting in or even causing an accident. Although the skateboarder I nearly brained on San Diego Avenue on Thursday shouldn&#8217;t have been in the middle of the car lane, even at midnight.<\/li>\n<li><a href=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-partisan\/wp\/2015\/03\/16\/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown\/> \u201cHands up, don&#8217;t shoot\u201d was built on a lie<\/a>. Or <a href=http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/article\/121322\/doj-ferguson-report-doesnt-mean-hands-dont-shoot-was-lie>maybe it wasn&#8217;t<\/a>. Hell if I know.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, Baltimore Ravens lineman John Urschel <a href=http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2015\/03\/20\/394340722\/john-urschel-ravens-offensive-lineman-publishes-math-paper>co-authored a math paper<\/a> titled \u201cA Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector.\u201d Are we praising him for being brilliant, or are we all just relieved that he&#8217;s not a wife-beater or a serial rapist? Regardless, graph theory is heady stuff, beyond anything I ever studied in school or on my own; I remember encountering the <a href=http:\/\/mathworld.wolfram.com\/KoenigsbergBridgeProblem.html>K\u00f6nigsberg Bridge Problem<\/a>, a precursor to modern graph theory, but don&#8217;t recall learning its (dis)proof.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My ESPN Insider content from the last week: * My breakout player picks for 2015. * A suggested rule change to cover the Kris Byrant situation, plus Jonathan Gray, Tyler Matzek, Yasmany Tomas, and Yoan Lopez * Javier Baez, Brandon Finnegan, Danny Duffy, Kyle Schwarber * Carlos Rodon and Tyler Danish * Taijuan Walker and [&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":[132,190,553,660],"class_list":["post-3976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food-science","tag-links","tag-math","tag-saturday-five","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976","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=3976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3978,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3976\/revisions\/3978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}