More Rain Break Links

As we get more weekend rain, I can post a few more story links I've come across.  We've got all our corn planted, along with one field of beans, so planting is proceeding well.  Here you go:

American Pharoah Is America's Next Bachelor - Cincinnati Magazine. More like gigolo.

Inside the World of Professional Rock Paper Scissors - Priceonomics.  Rock can't lose, isn't that correct, Matt Hoying?

Canadian Restaurant Sources Humane Beef From United States, Infuriates Canadians - Modern Farmer
Yogurt Buyers Send Dannon Back To The Farm - New York Times

The U.S. is Sitting on a Mountain of Cheese - AgWeb 

Germany's Beer Purity Law Is 500-Years-Old.  Is It Past Its Sell-By Date? - The Salt

A Mine vs. A Million Monarchs - New York Times

The Faithful - The California Sunday Magazine

How Information Graphics Reveal Your Brain's Blind Spots - ProPublica

Why Scientists Are Banking on Drones for Tracking Coastal Climate Research - Pacific Standard

The Kentucky gun owner who developed his own count of gun violence in the US - The Guardian

A Leak Wounded This Company.  Fighting the Feds Finished It Off - Bloomberg

The Braves Play Taxpayers Better Than They Play Baseball - Bloomberg.  What a scam.

A Fighting Chance

A Fighting Chance from A Fighting Chance on Vimeo.

NASA Photo of the Day

April 17:

Asperatus Clouds Over New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Witta Priester Explanation: What kind of clouds are these? Although their cause is presently unknown, such unusual atmospheric structures, as menacing as they might seem, do not appear to be harbingers of meteorological doom. Known informally as Undulatus asperatus clouds, they can be stunning in appearance, unusual in occurrence, are relatively unstudied, and have even been suggested as a new type of cloud. Whereas most low cloud decks are flat bottomed, asperatus clouds appear to have significant vertical structure underneath. Speculation therefore holds that asperatus clouds might be related to lenticular clouds that form near mountains, or mammatus clouds associated with thunderstorms, or perhaps a foehn wind -- a type of dry downward wind that flows off mountains. Such a wind called the Canterbury arch streams toward the east coast of New Zealand's South Island. The featured image, taken above Hanmer Springs in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 2005, shows great detail partly because sunlight illuminates the undulating clouds from the side.