{"id":4267,"date":"2015-09-05T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-05T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2015-09-05T00:07:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-05T04:07:14","slug":"saturday-five-9515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/05\/saturday-five-9515\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 9\/5\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had two Insider pieces this week, one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1EBlKKf\" target=\"_blank\">hypothetical postseason award ballots<\/a> and one on <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1N7JJSn\" target=\"_blank\">notable September callups<\/a>, and then someone else I didn&#8217;t expect to see came up after the latter was posted so why do I even do anything.<\/p>\n<p>Klawchats at ESPN.com are indeed dead, as are all chats there, but I think I&#8217;ve found a solution that will let me resume the chats here after Labor Day. I&#8217;m looking for a little help with a script to clean up the transcripts so I can post them after the fact for everyone to read, so if you&#8217;re handy with perl, Python, or the like, please let me know. I&#8217;ll keep doing Periscopes, but they don&#8217;t work for everyone, including my deaf readers, so I want to make sure I use both media going forward.<\/p>\n<p>My review of <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1M0tyaN\" target=\"_blank\">the second edition of the boardgame Evolution plus its Flight expansion<\/a> is up at <i>Paste<\/i>. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00NP7EWNG\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B00NP7EWNG&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=Z6B5TCS7RJVELZII\">buy the game for $48<\/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=B00NP7EWNG\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> on amazon.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How &#8220;Big Egg&#8221; has used underhanded and possibly illegal tactics, with the help of the USDA, to try to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkpolitics.com\/2015\/09\/02\/hampton-creek-targeted-by-usda-controlled-egg-industry-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">sabotage Hampton Creek&#8217;s vegan mayonnaise<\/a>. It&#8217;s incredibly sleazy.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Zimmern talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/munchies.vice.com\/articles\/the-future-of-food-according-to-andrew-zimmern?utm_source=mbtwitter\" target=\"_blank\">the future of food<\/a>, from synthetic food replacements to insects as a sustainable protein source.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have discovered a naturally-occurring protein that would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-34104545\" target=\"_blank\">help slow the melting of ice cream<\/a>. I see a problem with this, though: Ice cream tastes better when it&#8217;s at the brink of melting, because our taste buds don&#8217;t detect flavors in cold or frozen foods that well. That&#8217;s why ice cream has to be high in sugar \u2013 otherwise it wouldn&#8217;t taste sweet.<\/li>\n<li>A Chinese writer talks about how the &#8220;gross&#8221; immigrant food of her upbringing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/08\/31\/childhood-friends-called-my-food-chinese-grossness-how-did-it-become-americas-hottest-food-trend\/\" target=\"_blank\">has been culturally appropriated as &#8220;trendy.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The programmer adapting the board game Brass into app form has started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brassgame.com\/designers-notes-1-introduction\/\" target=\"_blank\">a blog about the process<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Chef Rick Bayless \u2013 yep, that&#8217;s Skip&#8217;s brother \u2013 writes about his dismay over <a href=\"http:\/\/goodfoodoneverytable.org\/2015\/08\/26\/rick-bayless-overturned-gmo-ban-is-a-sad-day-for-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\">the unbanning of GMO corn in Mexico<\/a>, using culinary and cultural arguments rather than (un)scientific ones.<\/li>\n<li>An experiment among Israeli schoolteachers found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/09\/01\/436525758\/how-teachers-unconscious-bias-play-into-the-hands-ofgender-disparity\" target=\"_blank\">unconscious gender bias in math grading<\/a>, bias that affected those kids&#8217; choices as they advanced to higher grades. I know some of you get on me for discussing bias (racism, sexism, etc.) where it isn&#8217;t immediately evident, but these issues still exist, especially racism within the white-dominated baseball industry, even though it&#8217;s rarely explicit any more.<\/li>\n<li>Alton Brown talks to the <i>New York Times<\/i> about his attitudes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/06\/magazine\/alton-brown-has-had-it-with-foodies.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">our attitudes about food<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A paid anti-GMO shill for the organic agriculture industry was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/glp-facts\/charles-benbrook-severed-former-wash-state-organic-consultant-misrepresents-conflicts-bungled-nejm-piece\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;severed&#8221; from Washington State University<\/a>. Particularly notable are the undisclosed conflicts of interest, the same violation of which the anti-GMO side is accusing Kevin Folta.<\/li>\n<li>Why is Missouri <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-34120745\" target=\"_blank\">executing one death-row prisoner a month<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>Vaccine denier Dr. Bob Sears \u2013 whose license to practice medicine still hasn&#8217;t been stripped, for reasons I can&#8217;t begin to fathom \u2013 is continuing to push his <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2015\/09\/04\/dr-bob-lets-his-antivaccine-freak-flag-fly\/#.VemkCh42lR0.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">looney-toon, law-breaking agenda<\/a> on gullible parents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two Insider pieces this week, one on hypothetical postseason award ballots and one on notable September callups, and then someone else I didn&#8217;t expect to see came up after the latter was posted so why do I even do anything. Klawchats at ESPN.com are indeed dead, as are all chats there, but I [&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":[579,131,133,859,190,660,807],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apps","tag-food-safety","tag-food-writing","tag-gmo","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","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=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}