{"id":8025,"date":"2019-11-16T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T20:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2019-11-16T16:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T21:08:20","slug":"stick-to-baseball-11-16-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/16\/stick-to-baseball-11-16-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 11\/16\/19."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this week, but nothing has been published quite yet. Some of it will be in bookstores on April 21st of next year, though, as I work on the first edit for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/9780062942722\/the-inside-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Inside Game<\/a><\/em>, my new book combining baseball decisions and cognitive psychology. I also am tentatively scheduled to appear at Washington, DC&#8217;s, Politics &amp; Prose on April 24th, with other events likely in that first week. If you&#8217;re with a bookstore and interested in arranging an event, feel free to reach out to me in the comments and I&#8217;ll connect you with my publicist.<\/p>\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Longreads first: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/identities\/2019\/11\/11\/20955059\/luna-younger-transgender-child-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legal battle over a 7-year-old trans girl in Texas<\/a> could have substantial implication for trans rights of children in that state and across the United States.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Guardian<\/em> looks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/nov\/12\/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the big-data approach to history and projecting the future<\/a>, a new field of inquiry reminiscent of the psychohistory of Isaac Asimov&#8217;s <em>Foundation<\/em> novels.<\/li>\n<li><em>Vanity Fair<\/em> details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/11\/the-big-bitcoin-heist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the theft of 550 Bitcoin-mining computers in Iceland<\/a>. The authorities know who stole the machines, but not where the machines are.<\/li>\n<li>A New Jersey high school baseball coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/slide-trial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ended up sued after he told a kid to slide<\/a>, and the kid ended up with a horrible leg injury.<\/li>\n<li>A woman who&#8217;s worked in the board game industry came out <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@victoria.mann11\/coming-forward-to-move-forward-8608e9c27e74\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with her story of how designer\/publisher JR Honeycutt manipulated and abused her<\/a> across a months-long relationship. BoardGameGeek immediately removed him from a panel where he was supposed to speak at BGG.Con this month.<\/li>\n<li>Deval Patrick wants to run for President. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/deval-patrick-corruption-power-elite_n_5c0578afe4b066b5cfa49b66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">He helped a Republican billionaire make millions through foreclosures<\/a> while he was Governor of Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<li>Restaurant critic Adam Platt \u2013 you may have heard of his brother, Oliver \u2013 writes about <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-food-critic-chef-tantrums-included\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">what it&#8217;s like to be targeted by a chef whose food you&#8217;ve reviewed<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>ESPN&#8217;s Kevin Arnovitz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/28059499\/inside-nba-silent-tension-surrounding-rockets-gm-daryl-morey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes about the silence that follows the NBA&#8217;s and Daryl Morey&#8217;s China\/Hong Kong controversy<\/a>. I may be showing my age, but can you imagine a similar blowback in the 1970s-1980s if an athlete or GM had voiced support of Solidarity or the Helsinki Watch Groups?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-one-employer-stuck-a-new-mom-with-a-bill-for-her-premature-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dignity Health stuck one of its own employees with a $900,000 bill<\/a> for medical care for her daughter, born three months premature, by trying to use a loophole around a missed deadline. This ProPublica piece points out that &#8220;Dignity is also a religious organization that says its mission is to further &#8216;the healing ministry of Jesus.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/nov\/06\/i-was-an-astrologer-how-it-works-psychics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I was an astrologer \u2013 here&#8217;s how it really works, and why I had to stop<\/a>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/rfk-jrs-york-city-vaccine-forum-highlights-concerns\/story?id=66158336&amp;cid=social_twitter_abcn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anti-vaxxers are now targeting minority groups<\/a> with their dangerous misinformation.<\/li>\n<li>The Daily Beast got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/you-wont-believe-how-easy-it-is-to-buy-anti-vaxx-ads-on-google-and-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">basic anti-vaccine ads approved by Google and Facebook<\/a> despite those companies&#8217; claims that they wouldn&#8217;t run such false or misleading advertisements.<\/li>\n<li>A woman who&#8217;s active in promoting vaccine safety and accurate vaccine information on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1192282988677148672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">went to a screening of <em>Vaxxed 2<\/em> and tweeted her thoughts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The head of the Nutrition Department at Harvard&#8217;s School of Public Health <a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2019\/11\/clearing-up-the-confusion-over-red-meat-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weighs in on how much meat we should eat<\/a> and on the new plant-based meat alternatives.<\/li>\n<li>The founder of a site called NoFap, which is \u2013 and I&#8217;m not making this up \u2013 trying to tell men to stop masturbating, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/ywa97m\/nofap-founder-suing-a-neuroscientist-no-nut-november\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suing a prominent sex researcher because she said masturbation isn&#8217;t bad<\/a> and that porn addiction isn&#8217;t real.<\/li>\n<li>Health officials fighting the Ebola outbreak in the north Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-50315970\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will now have a second vaccine to try in the city of Goma<\/a>, which hasn&#8217;t yet been hit by the outbreak. Over 2000 people have died already in the year-long Ebola flare-up, which has spread rapidly due to locals&#8217; mistrust of government and NGO personnel.<\/li>\n<li>The current way we use antibiotics to fight routine bacterial infections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/11\/13\/778261164\/with-few-new-drugs-to-treat-antibiotic-resistance-how-best-to-deploy-them\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">may be out of date, and contributes to drug resistance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The lower house of the Ohiobama legislature passed a bill <a href=\"https:\/\/local12.com\/news\/local\/ohio-house-passes-bill-allowing-student-answers-to-be-scientifically-wrong-due-to-religion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying that teachers can&#8217;t grade students&#8217; incorrect science answers as wrong if the answers reflect the students&#8217; religious beliefs<\/a>. Imagine paying your tax money so the public schools in your district could fail to teach kids basic science.<\/li>\n<li>Deadspin&#8217;s last (interim) editor-in-chief Barry Petchesky wrote for the <em>New York Times<\/em> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/11\/opinion\/deadspin-sports.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being fired for refusing to stick to sports<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The United States talks about fighting global terrorism, but the country is now seen as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/america-seen-as-exporter-of-white-supremacist-ideology-says-us-counterterrorism-official-232420985.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&amp;soc_trk=tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a leading exporter of white supremacist terrorism<\/a>, spreading to violence across the western world.<\/li>\n<li>The Saudis are not our friends. They <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/11\/14\/saudi-spies-hacked-my-phone-tried-stop-my-activism-i-wont-stop-fighting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hacked into the phones of Twitter users critical of their dictatorial regime<\/a> and extorted them into tweeting state propaganda.<\/li>\n<li>A MediaMatters survey found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/broadcast-networks\/just-3-broadcast-tv-news-segments-california-wildfires-connected-them-climate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">just 3% of news reports on the California wildfires pointed out the role of climate change<\/a> in the conflagration.<\/li>\n<li>Leaked emails show Trump consigliere <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2019\/11\/12\/stephen-millers-affinity-white-nationalism-revealed-leaked-emails\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stephen Miller empathizes strongly with white nationalists<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Peter Nicholas writes in the <em>Atlantic<\/em> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2019\/11\/trump-impeachment-taylor\/602017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trump&#8217;s strategy of attacking his adversaries may not work<\/a> given how many people are on the opposite side of the impeachment inquiry.<\/li>\n<li>President Trump continued to funnel tax dollars to his friends <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/11\/12\/federal-health-funneled-dollars-trump-allies-069638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as his administration hired $380-an-hour outside consultants<\/a> to handle work ordinarily assigned to government employees, leading to nearly $750,000 in gains for Trump&#8217;s allies.<\/li>\n<li>As many as <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/voices\/the-invisible-victims-of-traumatic-brain-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">90% of domestic violence victims report possible traumatic brain injuries<\/a>, according to two researchers writing for <em>Scientific American<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>A new outpost of Pizzeria Bianco, my #1 pizzeria in the United States, <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/2019\/11\/11\/20959964\/pizzeria-bianco-chris-bianco-phoenix-opening-pizza-los-angeles-row\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">will open in Los Angeles<\/a> in the space formerly occupied by Tartine Bianco.<\/li>\n<li>Board game news: The designer and publisher of the role-playing game Gloomhaven, which costs $120 and comes in a 20-pound box, announced a streamlined version <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cephalofair.com\/2019\/11\/officially-announcing-gloomhaven-jaws-of-the-lion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion<\/a>, which should cost around $50 and hit retail in Q3 in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Calliope Games is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/781219801\/station-master\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reissuing the 2004 game Station Master<\/a> (Kickstarter link) with new artwork.<\/li>\n<li>Next Move announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boardgamegeek.com\/boardgameexpansion\/294345\/azul-crystal-mosaic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azul: Crystal Mosaic<\/a>, an expansion to the 2018 Spiel des Jahres winner that will include overlays to keep your tiles in place and new double-sided player boards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this week, but nothing has been published quite yet. Some of it will be in bookstores on April 21st of next year, though, as I work on the first edit for The Inside Game, my new book combining baseball decisions and cognitive psychology. I also am tentatively scheduled to appear at Washington, DC&#8217;s, [&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":[899,821,364,828,160,1112,190,961,228,240,824,870,940,807],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-africa","tag-anti-science","tag-basketball","tag-climate-change","tag-health","tag-lgbt-rights","tag-links","tag-longreads","tag-nutrition","tag-pizza","tag-pseudoscience","tag-stick-to-baseball","tag-the-swamp","tag-vaccines","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","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=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8028,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/8028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}