Masters Weekend Links

Hopefully your Sunday afternoon was less of a letdown than Jordan Speith's.  Here are some stories I thought were interesting:

How Canada Was Shut Out of the NHL Playoffs - VICE Sports

Sacramento Shakedown - The Baffler

The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball - New York Times

Big Seed: How The Industry Turned From Small-Town Firms To Global Giants  - The Salt

Cargill’s New Place in the Food Chain - Wall Streeet Journal

Agriculture on the brink - Truthout

The sugar conspiracy - The Guardian

A key ingredient for life on Earth may have crash landed here from space - Washington Post

How Catholic Are We? and Sister Blandina and the Road to Sainthood - Cincinnati Magazine.  A Catholic twofer.

The Enduring Mystery of 'Jawn', Philadelphia's All-Purpose - Atlas Obscura (h/t C Moore)

City of Water - The New Yorker.  From 2003, but gives good information on the New York water system, and the Sandhogs who built it.

Something Uneasy in the Los Angeles Air - Curbed Los Angeles.  On the history and effect of the Santa Ana winds.

The Secret Movement to Draft General James Mattis for President - Daily Caller

Virgins, Booze and American Elections - New York Times

Don't Dismantle Government - Fix It - American Prospect

Why is the U.S. unwilling to pay for good public transportation? - The Conversation

10 Demographic Trends that are Shaping the United States and the World - Pew Research Center

The Brainbelt Awakening - Foreign Policy

100-Year-Old Frost Maps Show How Climate Change Has Shifted the Growing Season in the United States - Slate and Length of Growing Season - US EPA