Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-6-2009

[andrewducker]

• Happy people better at sticking to a Med-style diet.
  Or possibly the other way round.
  (tags: health depression diet)
• Who pays for banks to be virtuous? We do.
  Making sure that banks have enough cash to meet demand from creditors in a panic would take up to £7.8bn every year from households and businesses in the form of higher interest charges or lower deposit rates.
  (tags: banking finance economics)
• The demise of the dollar
  The slow transition of power continues.
  (tags: dollar economics politics finance oil china currency usa)
• Scientists on brink of cancer treatment revolution
  Woohoo!
  (tags: cancer health medicine science)
• How the Tories abandoned gay rights over Europe
  I should be more shocked than I am...
  (tags: gay rights Europe conservatives)
• New York's park above the streets
  Now that's what I call urban prarie...
  (tags: newyork cool trains urban)

Comments

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

The French did it first!

(I think I remember at least one article where the Friends of the High Line acknowledged the inspiration of the Paris park - there were a bunch of articles about it in the US east coast press this summer.)

In Chelsea Market, inside the building you can see high windows, now blind, which communicated directly to train freight cars for fast unloading. Hurray for architectural history!

[andrewducker]

Thanks - I had no idea!

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Brilliant news about the dollar, although it certainly comes too late for people like my parents, who over the past seven years watched their earnings decline by something like a third while based in the Gulf. Very exciting.

[andrewducker]

Ouch - I take it they were being paid in dollars but paying in local currency?

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

The dirham is directly tied to the American dollar, so as the dollar fell, the dirham did too. It's been hurting everyone for ages. Perhaps it took this long for them to finally ditch the dollar because Sheik Zayed has always been loyal to the Americans and only died a couple of years ago.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I went for a walk a long the High Line park when we were in New York in June: it was wonderful being above the streets. I took lots of as yet unprocessed photos.

I really must write that trip up...