Interesting Links for 4-11-2011

[andrewducker]

• Sweden's shameful transgender sterilization rule
  (tags: sweden transgender lgbt )
• Effect of fat gene moderated by exercise
  (tags: genetics weight health exercise )
• Artists suing for $2Bn because an iTunes download is a "license" not a "sale" and thus they should get more cash.
  (tags: music business )
• Fixing (cheap, shoddy) Android mobiles costs

Comments

[artkouros]

wow - sterilization? really? I would have that the civilized world was past that by now.

[andrewducker]

I was shocked too!

[bart_calendar]

The lesson of that music story is "Don't fuck with Rob Zombie."

Which, really, should be obvious.

[channelpenguin]

:-)

[bart_calendar]

Also, I think we need to send Buck Angel to Sweden to beat some sense into the legislators.

[gonzo21]

Edinburgh would have a semi decent music festival if Murrayfield had remotely decent transport links.

[a_pawson]

Murrayfield is a size up (70,000 tickets) rather than the Arena sized venue (10-15,000 tickets) that is being proposed.

And Murrayfield is easier to get to by public transport than Hampden or Parkhead.

[gonzo21]

Ah, right, I had no idea what sort of sizes music venues are. I just knew that my mum had been to concerts at Murrayfield and Hampden and suchlike.

[andrewducker]

I saw U2 at Murrayfield. They sold out a very large chunk of it. Most bands would be lost though.

Radiohead played in Meadowbank a couple of years back, which is a much more suitable size.

[nancylebov]

But they also showed that the increase in risk was only 1.22-fold in physically active carriers, compared with 1.30-fold for carriers who were physically inactive - a 27% reduction.

This is from the article about exercise and the obesity gene. I can't make sense of the numbers. Is there a log in there someplace?

[andrewducker]

One set of people go from 1->1.22, one go from 1->1.30. That's a difference of 0.08, which is just over 25% of the 0.30 increase.