{"id":4154,"date":"2015-06-27T09:06:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4154"},"modified":"2015-06-27T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T13:07:48","slug":"saturday-five-62715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/27\/saturday-five-62715\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 6\/27\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Insider pieces this week included a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1TIDbg6\" target=\"_blank\">some Red Sox prospects, including Yoan Moncada<\/a>; one on the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1LztvPx\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona\/Atlanta trade involving Touki Toussaint<\/a>; and a reaction to the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1CwtBlR\" target=\"_blank\">Futures Game rosters<\/a>. I also held a <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1GAHY9q\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>My latest boardgame review for <i>Paste<\/i> covers the reissue of the modern classic <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1IzjhLS\" target=\"_blank\">Tigris &#038; Euphrates<\/a>, designer Reiner Knizia&#8217;s best game, now back in print with better graphics and clearer rules.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend Molly Knight has a book coming out on the Dodgers, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00IWTWGYO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00IWTWGYO&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=LK34G4XMAJVBKT4Q\">The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers&#8217; Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=meadowpartyco-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00IWTWGYO\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>, next month, and it&#8217;s so good I even gave the publisher a quote to use on the back. <\/p>\n<p>And now, this week&#8217;s links&#8230;<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\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We&#8217;re getting so much closer to vaccine sanity, as California is set <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/1Nf8IB3\" target=\"_blank\">to end religious and philosophical exemptions<\/a> to vaccinating school-age children. The science is clear and unequivocal, and making the wrong, anti-science decision can affect hundreds of others&#8217; lives.<\/li>\n<li>A young widow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/poorna-bell\/in-the-end-there-is-only-room-for-love_b_7661380.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&#038;ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063\" target=\"_blank\">heartrending letter to her late husband<\/a>, who committed suicide a month ago after a long battle with depression.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Moringa oleifera<\/i> tree may lead to an inexpensive process <a href=\"http:\/\/news.psu.edu\/story\/358048\/2015\/06\/09\/research\/researchers-study-inexpensive-process-clean-water-developing\" target=\"_blank\">for purifying drinking water<\/a> in developing countries.<\/li>\n<li>On a Tokyo coffee roasting master <a href=\"http:\/\/sprudge.com\/in-tokyo-roasting-coffee-masterfully-at-age-one-hundred-79240.html?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\">still roasting at age 100<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A former president of the American Humanist Association writes in <i>Psychology Today<\/i> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/our-humanity-naturally\/201506\/anti-intellectualism-is-killing-america\" target=\"_blank\">anti-intellectualism is killing America<\/a>. I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the premise, nor do I think such unreason as racial hatred is &#8220;anti-intellectualism&#8221; per se, but I still found it an interesting read.<\/li>\n<li>Roxane Gay wrote in the <i>New York Times<\/i> that she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/24\/opinion\/why-i-cant-forgive-dylann-roof.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">can&#8217;t forgive Dylan Roof<\/a>, and why should she? Forgiveness means releasing your anger. If we forget to be angry, why would anything ever change?<\/li>\n<li>The first segment of Thursday&#8217;s episode of BBC Outlook, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p02tzvct\" target=\"_blank\">Canada&#8217;s abused aboriginal children<\/a> is harrowing listening, but also makes a superb case for &#8220;truth and reconciliation&#8221; commissions to address past historical wrongs.<\/li>\n<li>Common sense from VOX.com: People with mental illness are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/6\/23\/8833529\/mental-illness-mass-shootings\" target=\"_blank\">far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crimes<\/a>. Yet we don&#8217;t hear calls for greater mental health treatment options when the former is true, only the latter.<\/li>\n<li>A recent meta-study has found that the phenolic compounds found in olive oil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1420-3049\/20\/3\/4655\" target=\"_blank\">may help prevent neurodegenerative diseases<\/a>, although it would be nice to see empirical evidence (via clinical trials) to back this up. Still, olive oil is delicious and may be really good for you.<\/li>\n<li>The guys behind Animal and Son of a Gun have <a href=\"http:\/\/la.eater.com\/2015\/6\/26\/8855027\/jonathan-gold-jon-vinnys-review\" target=\"_blank\">opened a pizzeria in LA<\/a>, and it sounds amazing, of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Insider pieces this week included a post on some Red Sox prospects, including Yoan Moncada; one on the Arizona\/Atlanta trade involving Touki Toussaint; and a reaction to the release of the Futures Game rosters. I also held a Klawchat on Thursday. My latest boardgame review for Paste covers the reissue of the modern classic [&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":[84,548,190,240,660,807],"class_list":["post-4154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coffee","tag-depression","tag-links","tag-pizza","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154","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=4154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4154\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}