Interesting Links for 01-05-2016

[andrewducker]

I want to visit the Costa Rica dog sanctuary! 900 dogs! Roaming free! (tags: dogs awesome ) How Beyonce became an 'albums artist' - and what radio is doing about it (tags: music ) The choice of potato or rice may have determined the future of society (tags: prehistory food society ) We can solve our Mars problem and our Ceres problem at the

Comments

[soon_lee]

The potato vs rice article is intriguing though I was a little irked by the assumption that cultures that didn't build monuments were less sophisticated. And describing the potato as sinister was clickbaity.

[kalimac]

Ironically, I've seen it seriously claimed that Hitler was not a "real" vegetarian because his reasons for adopting that diet were not moral and ethical, but purely medical. Apparently in some people's minds that doesn't count.

[ckd]

The tax avoidance article reminds me of the Toy Biz tariff case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States

In that case, the plaintiff argued that the X-Men were not human because dolls (toy humans) had a higher tariff rate than toys (toy non-humans), and the ruling went in their favor. Naturally, comics fans had some reactions to this. :-)

[andrewducker]

Hah - nice!

[naath]

Excercise vs obesity> maybe it doesn't solve the 'obesity problem'. But it does solve the 'sedentary lifestyle problem' which is a problem independent of obesity, and it's much easier to take up jogging once a week than to stop being obese.