Saturday, November 29, 2014

Thanksgiving / OSU-Michigan / Grey Cup Weekend Links

Some interesting reads if you've gotten your fill of football already this weekend:

Jack Trice: Football Martyr - SBNation

Wojo's Pigskin Picks: Michigan-OSU has lost sizzle, needs spark - Detroit News.  Usually he can be counted on for some good slams on Ohio State.  I guess Michigan losing every year has taken the fun out of it for him.

Introducing the Weekly Glean - Modern Farmer.  A new weekly set of links to ag news.  One of this week's links- Benjamin Franklin's letter promoting the turkey as the national bird.

Can Breeders Cure What Ails Our Breast-Heavy Turkeys? - The Salt

Shorting Chickens Becomes Hot Trade After Prices Surge - Bloomberg

Thanksgiving in the Dust Bowl - James Fallows

Energy Quakes As OPEC Stands Pat - Wall Street Journal. See also, OPEC might get last laugh on oil - MarketWatch.   I was tempted to short Continental Resources and other shale plays, but because I thought production would peak, not because prices would crater.  Didn't do it, though.

Mystery of Scotch Whiskey Rings Solved [slide show] - Scientific American

Watch GE Test Its Jet Engines by Putting Them Through Hell - Wired.  Cool shit.

Inside Elon Musk's $1.4 Billion Score - Fortune.  Goddamn, corporate subsidies are such bullshit.

A Massacre in the Family - Wall Street Journal.  Sand Creek.

'God is not a magician': Pope says Christians should believe in evolution and Big Bang - Raw Story

The Making of Ferguson - The American Prospect.  Very interesting story highlighting racial segregation as government policy.

What a Difference Fourteen Years Make - Texas Monthly.  14 years of Rick Perry as governor.


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