Interesting Links for 04-08-2015

[andrewducker]

• More evidence that having one currency for the whole of the UK is bad for manufacturing
  • (tags: currency manufacturing economics UK )
• Everyone should take vitamin D pills
  • (tags: vitaminD )
• Gender Equality at the Workplace Is Important for Talent and the Bottom Line
  • (tags: gender equality behaviour work )
• I'd forgotten how awesome Disney's Hunchback of

Comments

[andrewducker]

Counterpoint: Vitamin D doesn't have a lot of evidence that it's useful: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/01/25/beware-mass-produced-medical-recommendations/ - although the difference between "People with normal Vitamin D levels taking supplements" and "People with low levels of vitamin D taking supplements" may be large. I dunno, the studies I can see don't tell me that!

[cmcmck]

I take a vitamin D supplement as part of a multivit and calcium supp as folks on HRT are told it's a good idea to top up.

[naath]

I do wonder why the advice isn't "eat more eggs and oily fish". I do so hate getting my necessary nutrients in pill form when there's no reason I can't eat them in food form; I especially hate being advised to do so without the advice even suggesting that there are food sources (obviously not everyone can, or wants to, eat these things; the existence of the pills is great).

[andrewducker]

Re: the currency article. I do sometimes wonder if London having its own currency, separate to the rest of the UK, would give enough benefits to outweigh the transaction costs.

[cartesiandaemon]

I do wonder if there's any other way of getting the same effect, without the transaction costs, so you don't have to decide in advance what the right size economic regions are. But it's certainly never been possible before.

[andrewducker]

If you think of anything then do say...

[cartesiandaemon]

Alas, I think that needs real economists. But there's some ideas I like, like a sufficient level of guaranteed basic income might self-calibrate money from rich areas into areas which need investment. And some ideas I like less, eg. contracts of any sort could be habitually specified relative to some index instead of in pounds, which might solve some of the problems of failing exports, at the cost of falling wages and susceptibility to abuse...

[erindubitably]

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is probably my favourite Disney movie, I'm glad to see it getting some love!

[andrewducker]

It's awesome. Hellfire is still one of my favourite Disney songs/sequences. Up there with "Be Prepared".

(And Pink Elephants On Parade, of course.)

[woodpijn]

Yeah, that song gives me chills. (Hellfire. Not Pink Elephants.) Frollo is such a psychologically believable villain. He reminds me of Javert: the bad guy who's convinced he's doing God's work in relentlessly hunting down "sinners". And his final line (and what happens immediately afterwards) is brilliant.
I love "One Day Out There" as well - the youthful energy of Quasimodo's belted-out top notes, Frollo's sinister misguided protectiveness, and the ingenious strings of rhymes (something else I like about "Be Prepared").
I want to watch it again!

[ggreig]

The web is probably mostly to blame for the decline in the reading of newspapers, but the papers themselves may have played their part. Back in the 90s I used to buy the Scotsman, but Andrew Neil presided over the start of a long decline in quality. Some of that may be due to declining resources as a result of competition with the web, but not all.

[andrewducker]

This is true. I think that people have grown more and more sceptical of newspapers, and it feels like the newspapers biases have come to the surface more (although that is probably just my perspective), to the point where a lot of people have been turned off of them entirely.

[ggreig]

It may be a perspective, but you're not alone standing at the viewpoint! :-)

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