More random links
- Mice That Eat Yogurt Have Larger Testicles
- This was a follow-up to a study that suggested that "yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age-related weight gain." Interestingly the yogurt-eating "animals had 10 times the active follicle density of other mice." And as the title of the article suggests they also found a few other things of interest.
- Africa’s Child Health Miracle: The Biggest, Best Story in Development
- "New statistics show that the rate of child death across sub-Saharan Africa is not just in decline—but that decline has massively accelerated, just in the last few years." (HT: MR)
- AT&T Chief Regrets Offering Unlimited Data for iPhone
- "Mr. Stephenson said he worried about services that could replace the company’s own offerings. For example, free Internet-based messaging services like Apple’s iMessage are eating into the company’s revenue from text messages. ... Mr. Stephenson added that Skype, the Internet-based phone service, was becoming a more viable voice service as data networks improved, which also poses a threat." Perhaps these should be seen more as a sign that the charges for specific services should be in line with the costs to actually provide said services rather than one type of service effectively subsidizing another? (Although for cell minutes vs. Skype, the call placed via the voice network rather than the data centre is probably better able to handle a poor connection due to the quality of service features built in).
- The Maritimes have no business in show business
- "In 2008, [the film] industry generated a negative direct gross domestic product (GDP) in New Brunswick. You didn’t read that wrong. For every dollar of industry output, the GDP created in New Brunswick was a negative $0.16. ... Driving this negative GDP was the fact there was 76 cents worth of government subsidies on products and production in the industry for every dollar worth of direct output."
- Does temporary foreign workers program create second class of labourers?
- I can't say that I object to quite a bit of immigration, but paying such workers 15% below market rates as this legislation does seems rather questionable.