Interesting Links for 25-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• IPv6 for consumers on DSL at last
  (tags: ipv6 adsl isp uk internet broadband )
• Apple is the UK's second most popular shopping site (after Amazon)
  (tags: apple shopping uk )
• Google and Samsung confirm Galaxy Nexus volume bugs - glad I'm not upgrading until January!
  (tags: google samsung android )
• Badoo - the billion pound social network you've never heard of (massive in Brazil, Spain, France...)
  (tags: business socialnetworking sex culture badoo )
• Genetic Study Confirms: First Dogs Came from East Asia
  (tags: dogs asia genetics )
• Britain has had a record-breaking freakishly warm autumn
  (tags: autumn weather uk )
• Courts cannot force ISPs into broad filtering and monitoring for copyright-infringing traffic, ECJ rules
  (tags: law privacy internet copyright EpicWin )
• Offshore unit launched to tackle international tax avoidance
  (tags: tax uk )
• UK switching cervical cancer vaccine to one which also protects against genital warts
  (tags: uk nhs vaccine women )
• Seeing nude people tunes up the brain
  (tags: nudity brain psychology )
• Some very interesting stats on home births, midwives, etc.
  (tags: birth children healthcare )
• Ethical bank Triodos opens its first UK branch (in Edinburgh)
  (tags: uk scotland edinburgh bank ethics )
• Organising movie posters by different tropes they use. Strangely hypnotic.
  (tags: posters design cinema movies art poster )
• It's nice to know that there's at least one class out there getting decent sex education
  (tags: sex education sexuality society )
• Willpower Is more than a metaphor: Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source.
  (tags: glucose sugar willpower self-control )
• Journalists tried to reach JK Rowling through her five-year-old daughter. Can we shoot them now?
  (tags: journalism uk media jkrowling )
• 50p tax rate not actually causing a massive problem.
  (tags: tax uk )

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

My choice too. Despite my Home Ec teacher at high school who once thought it was appropriate to tell me I was silly for not wanting children and that getting pregnant was the only way I was ever going to have decent sized breasts...

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

As well as the chances of catching MRSA etc, hospital births tend to be 60 % longer, which can increase the chances of complications. In a hospital, a woman is more likely to give birth on her back (not helped by a lot of medical professionals who think you need to be lying down if you have monitors attached to you) which is apparently much worse than squatting.

(This info is via the Boy who is training to be a nurse; I'd look up some articles to reference but a) I should be working or turning the laptop off and b) no-one without a journal subscription is likely to be able to read them)

I'm unclear whether the data on the length of hospital births is comparing like-for-like births, or whether it is affected by higher risk births being almost entirely hospital based, unfortunately.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

If we're going anecdotal, my son nearly died due to complications caused and worsened by hospital procedures and conditions. For one thing, the hospital had no air conditioning or hot water - I'm not kidding! I had both at home.

Then they saved him, then he had an 8 minute seizure. He's only marginally impaired.

I was very tempted to have my second baby at home, but lived more than an hour from hospital so decided it wasn't prudent. He was born with no doctor in the room because I had him so fast they didn't have time to get there from down the hall.

In light of my experience, I absolutely believe that, in the case of a healthy woman who has been screened for complications and attended by a midwife, home within reasonable range of a hospital is just as safe as hospital.

[del-c.livejournal.com]

Because complications are rare, pulling complications out of the home birth pool is like pulling tokens out of a bag with a lot of tokens. So removing the mothers who had complications the first time shouldn't affect the home birth statistics positively enough to detect. Which is just what we observe: home births rise to the safety level of hospital births on and after second birth, but do not exceed it, despite the theoretical skew from first-birth complications electing hospital the second time around.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Gardasil has been in use here for a few years, though it's only been approved for use in women up to age 26, if I recall correctly. Sucks to be older than that -- you can't get it on request, It Hasn't Been Approved.