Interesting Links for 25-11-2011
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andrewducker- IPv6 for consumers on DSL at last
- Apple is the UK's second most popular shopping site (after Amazon)
- Google and Samsung confirm Galaxy Nexus volume bugs - glad I'm not upgrading until January!
- Badoo - the billion pound social network you've never heard of (massive in Brazil, Spain, France...)
- Genetic Study Confirms: First Dogs Came from East Asia
- Britain has had a record-breaking freakishly warm autumn
- Courts cannot force ISPs into broad filtering and monitoring for copyright-infringing traffic, ECJ rules
- Offshore unit launched to tackle international tax avoidance
- UK switching cervical cancer vaccine to one which also protects against genital warts
- Seeing nude people tunes up the brain
- Some very interesting stats on home births, midwives, etc.
- Ethical bank Triodos opens its first UK branch (in Edinburgh)
- Organising movie posters by different tropes they use. Strangely hypnotic.
- It's nice to know that there's at least one class out there getting decent sex education
- Willpower Is more than a metaphor: Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source.
- Journalists tried to reach JK Rowling through her five-year-old daughter. Can we shoot them now?
- 50p tax rate not actually causing a massive problem.
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Date: 2011-11-25 07:42 pm (UTC)Which leads me to think that either there _is_ something wrong in the statistics or there must be cases where being in a hospital is actively bad for your health (like increased chance of catching something nasty, or passing doctor's deciding to run experiments on you).
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Date: 2011-11-25 08:15 pm (UTC)(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.