Link Dump – 05.11.2011

Ugh, my face hurts cause I sun burned the shit out of it yesterday. And I think I have heat stroke.

-Eugene

#1. 5 Tips for Anyone Who Wants to Improve Performance and Look Better Naked Part 4 – Supplements
I’m using the majority of these, who knows how I’d like if I wasn’t on these supplements haha. They’re ultimately pretty accessible and not to expensive to incorporate.

#2. Manny Pacquiao Was Inspired by Bruce Lee – NYTimes.com
Prior to his recent fight against Shane Mosely, Manny Pacquiao’s inspirations from Bruce Lee are highlighted. It’s amazing how influential Bruce Lee has been so many years after his death.

#3. The Flip Side of Tilapia, the Perfect Factory Fish – NYTimes.com
Just as much as fish has often been dubbed an important food staple, it’s soon becoming subject to dwindling nutritional benefits. It’s no different than livestock who gets feed unnatural food and enviroments, much of the benefits are mitigated or reduced, most namely Omega-3s.

#4. FDA Struggles To Define ‘Gluten-Free’ After Seven Years
FDA once again not doing anything right.

#5. Roger Martin: Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL
How point shaving and punishing cheaters in sports can be ported to the world of finance.

#6. Think it’s easy to be macho? Psychologists show how ‘precarious’ manhood is
Social situations reinforce masculinity and how certain acts makes men feel the need to exude masculine behavior.

#7. Robert Kuttner: China: Be Careful What You Wish for
Should China begin acting as the US wants them to, the ramifications may not be what exactly the United States had hoped for namely relatively low inflation. As China pays its workers more and raises its currency, you can bet that inflation will move accordingly.

#8. Tom Engelhardt: China as Number One? Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
Despite all the talk of China as the new superpower, there are some glaring weaknesses. The gap between the haves and have-nots is rapidly growing as are issues of corruption, food, eduction and pollution among others (all in some part associated with people of affluence those who are poor).

#9. The west may be declining, but the rest of the world looks ready for a 40-year boom
Countries that may not be hitting the front pages of major newspapers are set for a huge surge like Indonesia, Nigeria, Mongolia, Bangladesh and Vietnam

#10. Allysia Finley: California Prison Academy—Better Than a Harvard Degree – WSJ.com
Could you really be better off working for the California prison system than getting a Harvard degree? It appears so.

#11. Rare Earth Prices Soar as Efforts to Increase Supplies Falter
Despite soaring prices, luckily some of its usages are so minute that the costs so far are negligible.

#12. How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to a Perfect Flight

#13. ‘Fatting in’: Immigrant groups eat high-calorie American meals to fit in, study finds
Eating bad to fit in… this along with how obesity is accepted amongst your social circle shows the power of society in promoting poor habits.

#14. How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
A “perverted” futures mark brought on by Goldman Sachs made holders unable to follow traditional buy-sell/sell-buy patterns as well as how everybody and their baby’s mama are into commodities these days.

#15. America’s Biggest Threat Is China’s State-Owned Firms, Not Its Currency, Business Group Says
Protectionism together with massive government funding make for virtually bulletproof companies.

#16. Mark Matousek: Why We Don’t Need God to Be Good (and What Religious Folk Don’t Want You to Know)
The inherent good in man can be put down to a science.

#17. Language Study Casts New Light on Japanese Origins
The modern Japanese language is only 2,200 years old rather than a previously thought origin dating back 30,000 years.

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