Once again, for the people in the pack: Pregnancy is not a riskless, health-neutral event.The New York Times ran two powerful editorials about abortion this week: one from a woman who was raped by her father and had an abortion, and another from a woman who didn’t have an abortion but “erased” the future she’d planned for herself, speaking very plainly about a life-altering decision from when she was 19.The BBC Three spoke to multiple victims of sexual assalt about rape culture in British schools and authorities failing to do enough about it.(The short answer here is that you can’t plagiarize – or copyright – a recipe, but you can plagiarize or copyright the text around it.) The longrunning debate over whether you can plagiarize a recipe has reared its head again, after a published recently pulled a book from circulation after discovering that the author had copied recipes and stories from another book.This August piece in Science on how variants emerge and change the way the pandemic goes seems just as important now.Utah, a state run by conservatives at all levels, makes it so hard to get public aid that some people join the Mormon Church to qualify, even if they don’t believe in the tenets of that sect.The straw that broke the camel’s back isn’t even public, but it related to this.
I can also say that ESPN’s ill-conceived, ambiguous, and inconsistently enforced social media policy ranks as the #1 reason I left the company. Longreads first: This Columbia Journalism Review report on the hazards of social media for journalists is spot-on, and I wish the people running major social-media outlets would read and internalize its lessons.And finally, with Christmas just three weeks away, here’s another reminder that I have two books out, The Inside Game and Smart Baseball, that would make great gifts for the readers (especially baseball fans) on your lists.
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I sent out a new edition of my free email newsletter last week, with a story about being too judgmental and learning to get past it. At Ars Technica, I contributed twenty new entries to their Ars Technica’s ultimate board game gift guide. Over at Paste, I reviewed The Crew: Mission Deep Sea, the sequel to the 2019 Kennerspiel winner, and I think a small but significant improvement over the original. and the Cubs’ signing of Marcus Stroman.the Max Scherzer and Robbie Ray signings.the Rangers’ signings of Jon Gray and Marcus Semien.the Starling Marte and Steven Matz signings.I had a whole slew of posts for subscribers to The Athletic last week, however, including
We had a busy weekend of decorating the house, including acquiring the largest tree I’ve ever owned (since we have one room with exceptionally high ceilings, it seemed irresponsible to fail to take advantage of it), which means this post is late.