Random links
- Cereal? Cookies? Oh, What’s the Diff?
- The craziest sentence: "It turns out that from at least the perspective of sugar content, many are worse, as a new document from the Environmental Working Group shows. There are at least 44 cereals that contain more sugar in a cup than three Chips Ahoy cookies."
- Can the Cans: Why food drives are a terrible idea.
- The arguments: horrible economic inefficiency in purchasing, surplus food available to food banks for about 5% of what you'd pay retail, and the need to inspect the results, the high overhead for storage, and the lack of flexibility in purchasing. (See here for what I'd dub a fairly ineffective counterargument - which seems to amount to it being a way to teach children about poverty).
- In Defense of Kitchen Gadgets
- "In other words, the 'one knife, one pan', 'I don't need kitchen gadgets' snobs aren't a better, purer sort of cook; they're just ignoring most of the contents of their kitchen. How many of them cook over an open fire, rather than using one of those high-faluting fancy stoves with their automatic temperature regulation and their electric lights? Why are they storing all their food in a cold box rather than shopping for each day, the way people do in India?" (of course, as the article notes there are a number of good reasons not to accumulate too many either).
- Thai lawmakers submit motion on moving capital
- "Experts have said Bangkok, which is built on swampland, is slowly sinking and the floods currently besieging the city of 12 million people could be merely a foretaste of a grim future, as climate change makes its impact felt."