{"id":4437,"date":"2015-11-14T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2015-11-13T23:38:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:38:20","slug":"saturday-five-111415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/14\/saturday-five-111415\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday five, 11\/14\/15."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have analyses up for Insiders on the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1HAvfL5\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Hicks-John Ryan Murphy trade<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1Mr8hTr\" target=\"_blank\">Andrelton Simmons trade<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1kvstww\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Kimbrel trade<\/a>. I also held my weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1WUqLQU\" target=\"_blank\">Klawchat<\/a> here on the dish.<\/p>\n<p>My various offseason buyers&#8217; guides all went up this week:<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1iLAGuP\" target=\"_blank\">Catchers<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1PkNnv5\" target=\"_blank\">Corner infielders<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1RLvC5D\" target=\"_blank\">Middle infielders<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1kpk91o\" target=\"_blank\">Outfielders<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1GYPCBx\" target=\"_blank\">Starting pitchers<\/a><br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1WR09ps\" target=\"_blank\">Relief pitchers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus, you all saw my ranking of <a href=\"http:\/\/klaw.me\/1iWV10k\" target=\"_blank\">my all-time favorite boardgames<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the bigger surprises on <i>Art Angels<\/i>, the outstanding new album from Grimes (n&eacute;e Claire Boucher), is the presence of the female Taiwanese rapper who goes by the name Aristophanes. <i>Fader<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefader.com\/2015\/07\/29\/meet-aristophanes-grimes\" target=\"_blank\">a little more info on her<\/a> with some Soundcloud links.<\/li>\n<li>The <i>Atlantic<\/i> has a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2015\/11\/grimes-art-angels-review-aggressive-experimental-pop\/414936\/\" target=\"_blank\">review of <i>Art Angels<\/i><\/a> that talks about Grimes&#8217; emerging fame and choice of musical direction. I&#8217;ll try to get a review of the album up early next week.<\/li>\n<li>Public schools in Louisiana are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2015\/11\/christianity_forced_on_public_school_students_in_louisiana.html\" target=\"_blank\">teaching kids Christianity and creationism<\/a>, a blatant violation of federal law and of the students&#8217; rights. <\/li>\n<li>The <i>New Yorker<\/i> has an excellent piece up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/race-and-the-free-speech-diversion\" target=\"_blank\">using &#8220;free speech&#8221; to distract from discussions of racism<\/a>, focusing on the protests at Yale and the University of Missouri. The Yale controversy has seemed particularly easy to parse to me: You don&#8217;t get to go around in blackface in a closed environment and then claim you&#8217;re exercising your free speech rights. You get expelled.<\/li>\n<li>Pennsylvania has the second-worst student immunization rate in the nation, but there are bills pending in their legislature to end the &#8220;philosophical exemption&#8221; (that is, the opt-out for parents too stupid to understand basic science), while the state&#8217;s departments of health and education are working to end the &#8220;grace period&#8221; that allows kids to attend school before they&#8217;ve gotten all their shots. The <i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/i>&#8216;s editorial board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/opinion\/editorials\/2015\/11\/08\/For-children-s-sake-Ending-Pennsylvania-s-weak-vaccine-rules\/stories\/201511300017\" target=\"_blank\">supports these moves<\/a>, as do I, not least because the state of Delaware told me building a border wall was too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>Doctors need to do a better job of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/10\/upshot\/hpv-vaccine-myth-good-talks-needed.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">encouraging parents to give their kids the HPV vaccine<\/a>, according to Aaron Carroll, Professor of Pediatrics at Kyle Schwarber&#8217;s alma mater (well, technically at IU&#8217;s Medical School). The problem, in Carroll&#8217;s view, is that it touches on ignorance about vaccines as well as the dirty dirty subject of teens having sex.<\/li>\n<li>J. Kenji Lopez-Alt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2015\/11\/13\/455755908\/a-kitchen-science-savant-shares-his-secrets-in-the-food-lab\" target=\"_blank\">talked to NPR&#8217;s Here and Now<\/a>, and the resulting interview includes three recipes from his new cookbook <i><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393081087\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0393081087&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=meadowpartyco-20&#038;linkId=DNOU5MKJBZCTHDAD\">The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>The BBC has a quirky story up on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-34747508\" target=\"_blank\">brand-new record store in Ulan Bator<\/a>, the capital of Mongolia. And if all you know of Mongolia is &#8220;Mongolian barbecue,&#8221; well, that&#8217;s Taiwanese, sorry.<\/li>\n<li>Last week&#8217;s links included a story on Elizabeth Holmes, the Stanford dropout whose blood-testing startup Theranos may have lied about its product&#8217;s capabilities. The <i>Washington Post<\/i> has a story on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/erik-wemple\/wp\/2015\/11\/05\/how-the-nyts-t-magazine-disappeared-tech-entrepreneur-elizabeth-holmes\/\" target=\"_blank\">the <i>NY Times<\/i> erased Holmes from a story on tech heroes<\/a>, as well as failing to discuss a potential conflict of interest by that story&#8217;s author.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2015\/11\/11\/i-am-spartacus-or-orac-applies-some-insolence-to-a-rather-confused-antivaccine-blogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">This story by a pro-science skeptical blogger<\/a> about an vaccine-denier nut job is a bit inside-baseball, as the saying goes, but highly amusing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have analyses up for Insiders on the Aaron Hicks-John Ryan Murphy trade, the Andrelton Simmons trade, and the Craig Kimbrel trade. I also held my weekly Klawchat here on the dish. My various offseason buyers&#8217; guides all went up this week: &bull; Catchers &bull; Corner infielders &bull; Middle infielders &bull; Outfielders &bull; Starting pitchers [&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":[803,190,660,807],"class_list":["post-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2015-in-music","tag-links","tag-saturday-five","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}