{"id":4191,"date":"2015-07-25T09:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4191"},"modified":"2015-07-25T09:29:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T13:29:22","slug":"saturday-five-72515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/25\/saturday-five-72515\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 7\/25\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1LDeTR0\" target=\"_blank\">ranked the top five farm systems<\/a> as of right now \u2013 well, right then, as I wrote it \u2013 for Insiders this week, and <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1g8iMlD\" target=\"_blank\">broke down the Scott Kazmir trade<\/a>. I also held a <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1KkZ2EZ\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> on Wednesday. I don&#8217;t plan to write up the smaller deals of the week, such as the Aramis Ramirez or Steve Cishek trades, because they&#8217;re just salary dumps without significant prospects going the other way.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1OA5zgs\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed the new Splendor app<\/a> for <i>Paste<\/i> this week. You can get the app for $6.99 for <a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/splendor\/id971215921?mt=8&#038;at=11l9Rw\">iOS<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0115D12I4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B0115D12I4&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=DRIJQBM2LOZC7K6T\">Android<\/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=B0115D12I4\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> devices \u2013 and you should, as it&#8217;s a great game that&#8217;s very well done.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My colleague Jay Bilas (who is, IMO, the best and most important voice in the movement to bring the NCAA to heel) and I have gone back and forth a little over his endorsement of a &#8220;brain training&#8221; app. There are a number of research papers out there showing these tools and games don&#8217;t work as promised, but a reader sent along <a href=\"http:\/\/longevity3.stanford.edu\/blog\/2014\/10\/15\/the-consensus-on-the-brain-training-industry-from-the-scientific-community-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">this open letter<\/a> from various neuroscientists that argues the point more forcefully.<\/li>\n<li>Noted (and loud) vaccine denier <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2015\/07\/22\/after-sb-277-medical-exemptions-to-vaccine-mandates-for-sale-courtesy-of-dr-bob-sears\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Bob Sears is selling medical exemptions<\/a> to parents in California \u2026 or, to be more accurate, he&#8217;s all but saying that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s doing.<\/li>\n<li>The likely-illegal arrest and subsequent death of Sandra Bland sparked this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasstandard.org\/shows\/current\/10-things-about-the-sandra-bland-traffic-stop-every-texan-should-know\/\" target=\"_blank\">your rights when you&#8217;re stopped by a police officer<\/a>. The post says it&#8217;s for Texans but I think these rights apply anywhere; it&#8217;s not like citizens of other states have <i>fewer<\/i> rights.<\/li>\n<li>The title says it perfectly: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pajiba.com\/think_pieces\/for-the-love-of-god-would-people-stop-writing-think-pieces-about-things-they-havent-seen.php\" target=\"_blank\">For the Love of God, Would People Stop Writing Think Pieces About Things They Haven\u2019t Seen?<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Survivors of the Horace Mann sex scandal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sroudman\/how-survivors-of-the-horace-mann-sex-abuse-scandal-picked-a?utm_source=digg&#038;utm_medium=email#.sfRxRL6De\" target=\"_blank\">aren&#8217;t getting any satisfaction from the school<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The myth about gluten being bad for you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/05\/opinion\/sunday\/the-myth-of-big-bad-gluten.html?WT.mc_id=2015-KWP-AUD_DEV&#038;WT.mc_ev=click&#038;ad-keywords=AUDDEVREMARK&#038;kwp_0=22749&#038;kwp_4=156249&#038;kwp_1=163873&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">isn&#8217;t based in science<\/a>, and avoids bigger questions of what&#8217;s going on with our immune systems and auto-immune disorders.<\/li>\n<li>Arizona eaters rejoice: nocawich is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixnewtimes.com\/restaurants\/nocawich-in-tempe-will-open-on-monday-heres-a-preview-of-the-breakfast-menu-7511243\" target=\"_blank\">opening in Tempe on July 27th<\/a>, and it looks like they&#8217;re going to do a bang-up breakfast, with house-made English muffins and bagels shipped in from New York&#8217;s H&#038;H.<\/li>\n<li>A review of two books turns into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2015\/aug\/13\/mystery-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\">a long, insightful essay on the rise of ISIS<\/a>, albeit one that will likely leave you even more depressed about the future of the region.<\/li>\n<li>The Planned Parenthood videos were made by a group that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/planned-parenthood-sting-video_55a92205e4b0896514d11ac9?5gkfbt9\" target=\"_blank\">may have lied about its nonprofit status<\/a>. With colleges and hospitals that rake in dough, paying officers huge sums and constructing fancy new buildings, also claiming to be nonprofits, maybe it&#8217;s time to put some resources behind enforcing or tightening those rules?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ranked the top five farm systems as of right now \u2013 well, right then, as I wrote it \u2013 for Insiders this week, and broke down the Scott Kazmir trade. I also held a Klawchat on Wednesday. I don&#8217;t plan to write up the smaller deals of the week, such as the Aramis Ramirez [&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":[566,132,190,824,660,655,807],"class_list":["post-4191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-food-science","tag-links","tag-pseudoscience","tag-saturday-five","tag-tempe","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191","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=4191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4197,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4191\/revisions\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}