Interesting Links for 27-03-2015

[andrewducker]

• Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all
  (tags: feminism saudiarabia islam sweden women politics )
• It's Remarkably Easy to Lock a Pilot Out of the Cockpit
  (tags: airplanes safety )
• The Happen Of The Doctor
  (tags: drwho funny language )
• I can't justify buying a PS4. But if I

Comments

[kalimac]

The Hobbit meal thing is completely non-canonical. Just so you know. You have to completely misread everything Tolkien wrote about Hobbit eating habits to come up with something like that.

[andrewducker]

Oh yes - it's clearly pulled from a Quora answer. I wasn't expecting anyone to take it _seriously_.

[lilchiva]

Funnily, if you ate like that, with a reasonable diet, you'd balancing your insulin/blood sugar in a statistically optimal way.

[andrewducker]

I'm glad that Wallstrom spoke out in the first place. And even if it doesn't lead to anything immediate, I hope that it causes someone else to speak out next.

[andrewducker]

True. It's hard to tell whether to make the public stand (and generate publicity) or use the energy for something in the long game.