Interesting Links for 28-04-2012

[andrewducker]

• Women who smoke in pregnancy more likely to have child with high functioning autism
  (tags: autism smoking )
• Would a transparent floor over a fifteen storey shaft under your toilet help, or hinder?
  (tags: design architecture toilet )
• Iain Duncan Smith attacks additional £10 billion welfare cuts plan
  (tags: Conservatives politics uk welfare IainDuncanSmith )
• Apple vs. Samsung: A Visual Guide to Apple's IP Claims.
  The before iPhone/after iPhone differences are fascinating.
  (tags: design samsung patent apple )
• Overweight teens who are satisfied with their bodies are less depressed, less prone to unhealthy behaviors
  Shocking, I know. Almost as if shame is a terrible way to make people do anything.
  (tags: depression mood weight health )

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Shocking, I know. Almost as if shame is a terrible way to make people do anything.

*applause*

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

My mother smoked with all six of us. (She quit when I was five.) And none of us turned out autistic.

She did NOT drink when pregnant, however. And after seeing that article on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in Russia, (in National Geographic,) I'm glad she didn't.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

Apple have for quite some time, been saying 'Design stuff that does not look like our stuff, and we will stop suing you'*

while the scale of the battle is utterly crazy, I have long been surprised that so many people do not understand / appreciate the basis of that request.

the extent of the copying really is totally fucking blatant.


*of course they did not sue the first time this happened.