Interesting Links for 30-08-2017

[andrewducker]

China's web users will have their identity verified from 1st October

(tags: identity china web )

"100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.

(tags: cheese law food usa )

FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD

(tags: drugs ecstacy psychology )

Google’s ARCore brings augmented reality to millions of Android devices

(tags: android augmentedreality )

Moderate consumption of fats, carbohydrates best for health, international study shows

(tags: fat carbohydrate diet food health )

Sky stops broadcasting Fox News in UK

(tags: FoxNews uk )

Drawing Autism: A Visual Tour of the Autistic Mind from Kids and Celebrated Artists on the Spectrum

(tags: autism art )

Terry Pratchett's unpublished works crushed by steamroller

(tags: death writing terrypratchett )

Fans watch Taylor Swift. Economists watch the fans.

(tags: music economics attention )

Women Entrepreneurs Create A Fake Male Cofounder To Dodge Startup Sexism

(tags: sexism business OhForFucksSake )

Why Speedos are mandatory in France

(tags: clothing france swimming )

Comments

"100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.

[jack]

I see their argument, if that's "normal". We don't want people trying to ban toad-in-the-hole because it doesn't have toads.

But I also feel like, "it's ok that we're lying, everyone knows we're lying" is a crappy argument. Wouldn't it be better if we DID enforce some sort of truth in names and in advertising so people COULD believe it? Even if they were young, or old, or didn't speak english well?

Re: "100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.

[cyprinella]

I mean, I am a middle aged, native English speaker with a degree and I thought it meant it was all cheese. I thought that it didn't need refrigeration because it was a long-aged dry cheese.

Re: "100% grated parmesan cheese" doesn't mean that something contains 100% cheese. Apparently.

[jack]

Good point. I hadn't really thought about what I would think without the prompting of the article. I thought the point of hard cheese was that it did keep. But all the parmesan I see is refrigerated. So I don't know what I would have thought.

In fact, what I thought when I saw the photo of the shelf was, "Kraft? Don't they make one of those horrible cheese substitutes? I bet their 'parmesan' is horrible". But I think that reaction was more outdated prejudice than an accurate judgement, even if it happened to be accurate in this case.