Episode 191: MH17 and What Brought it Down, Syria's Chemical Arsenal Destroyed at Sea, Break Up Albums and more

Rogue Missiles and Commercial Aircraft

"The vast majority of armed groups world wide tend to seek and to some degree acquire shoulder-fire surface-to-air missiles... they're designed to be operated by dismounted infantry, meaning soldiers that are out in the field. This is much more in line with how armed groups, terrorist organization, criminal organizations operate." 

--Matt Scroeder, Senior Researcher with the Small Arms Survey

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The Ship That Neutralizes Syria's Weapons

"They outfitted this cargo ship with two field deployable hydrolysis systems that will neutralize about 600 metric tons [of toxic chemicals] in international waters ... extraordinary and historic - never been even attempted before."

-Michael Luhan, spokesperson for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

Digital Security in Typewriters

"The typewriter itself is not immune... the actual ribbon of a typewriter will create an imprint of every keystroke so that creates a problem... The great lesson that we've learned is that nobody learns anything from history." 

-Nigel West, author and counter-intelligence expert

The Blonde Vegan Changes Course

"If you're completely obsessing about your food intake all the time then you're not a healthy person and you're not a psychologically sound or happy person either, so I absolutely believe that Orthorexia is a debilitating eating disorder."

-Jordan Younger, formerly known as The Blonde Vegan now blogs as thebalancedblonde

The Best Break-up Albums

"Once you've broken up, you've lost that person that you loved so deeply and that you've been closest with. You've lost your best friend. So I think music gives you an emotional connection that makes you feel like you're not in it alone. That maybe someone else has felt as horrible as you do."

- Natalia Yanchak, The Dears

P.J. O'Rourke on Boomers

"If you think about the attitude we have now towards mental illness as opposed to the attitude from a generation ago... one thing about taking drugs was that it made a whole generation of Americans understand about brain chemistry."

-Humourist P.J. O'Rourke author of The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way and It Wasn't My Fault and I'll Never Do It Again

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