Interesting Links for 01-06-2013

[andrewducker]

• What we can learn from one of the worst charities in the world
  (tags: viaCipherGoth ethics charity )
• College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. How can that be?
  (tags: sweden debt money children education )
• Giant genome study finds tiny links between genetics and schooling (0.02%)
  (tags: genetics education )
• Nearly 1 billion

Comments

[artkouros]

Nine fingered Scotty! Awesome.

I wish Abrams had made Scotty with 9 fingers and Sulu gay. Maybe in Star Trek III.

[andrewducker]

We can but hope!

[randomchris]

I think Simon Pegg might not be that much of a method actor.

[kmusser]

I'm not sure what the point of that charities article is - newsflash: charities exist that have missions you don't agree with. There are probably thousands of right-wing charities I don't agree with, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to learn from that.

The Cracked article fails without Christopher Lee.

[anton_p_nym]

Well, specifically the "Homeopathy Without Borders" charity is taking a great deal of money to send "medication" that is demonstrably no more effective than the much-less-expensive alternative of a kind word and a cup of tea. So there's that.

-- Steve is a very harsh critic of homeopathy, but he'd be willing to cut it a break if it did a lot more or cost a lot less.

[kmusser]

Sure, but is that any worse than abstinence-only sex ed charities, or charities whose only purpose is evangelizing their particular brand of religion, or, heck, Scientology qualifies as a charity in most place - my point was there are lots and lots of charities doing things I'd consider not only a waste of money, but actively harmful - I hardly think Homeopathy Without Border is the worst of them, and I'm still not sure what the supposed lessen there was.

[nancylebov]

Rats in London have a better deal than hypothetical humans crowded onto the Isle of Wight.

Home Comforts is by a woman who is suited to homemaking by temperament and upbringing, but who went to college when women weren't supposed to care about making a pleasing environment to live in.

The first section ("My Secret Life") is about how she decided to come out about homemaking, and how much pressure she was up against.

I'm feeling mildly cranky about the armed Disney princesses-- murderousness doesn't add coolness in my opinion. Remember that bit in Bujold's Falling Free where the woman from the utopian society is squicked because people were impressed she'd killed(?) someone?

[andrewducker]

I'm just amused by the cognitive dissonance/disjoint.

[anton_p_nym]

On the notable sandwiches page, I have to say that the "bun kebab" caught my eye and made me wonder what a souvlaki with tsatsiki would taste like in a hot dog roll...

-- Steve'd like to think it'd be a bit less sloppy than the pita version.

PS: That page is giving me a great many dangerous culinary ideas, actually.

[nancylebov]

I'd never heard of a baked bean sandwich, and I rather wish I hadn't.

[ggreig]

That doesn't sound great, but I think the chip butty might be worse. I remember they were popular at school (west coast of Scotland, early 1980s) so I felt obliged to try one - bleurgh! They remain an inexplicable cultural icon to me.

[mair_aw]

Wikipedia has a list of notable sandwiches. Guess which one is top!
(tags: food wikipedia bacon )

... I think the tags gave it away.