the simsian review

“The ordinance approved today requires pregnancy centers to post signs stating “whether the center has a licensed health care provider or practitioner directly supervising all medical services; and whether the center is licensed or regulated by a state or federal regulatory entity to provide medical services.”

—Austin Passes Revised Pregnancy Center Law | KUT News

“The survey, by Accounting Principals, a unit of staffing services company Adecco SA, found that U.S. workers, on average, spend $37 per week for lunch, but men spend more: $47 a week, versus $27 for women. Men also pay more for coffee — $26 a week is typical — and are more likely to complain about the selection of office vending machines.”

—$5 here, $37 there: Americans’ indulgences add up | Reuters I tend to buy good coffee but make at home and, when I have a job which requires it, I bring my lunch to work.

“Here’s everything you need to know about why the mother of humanity is so important.”

—How Mitochondrial Eve connected all humanity and rewrote human evolution

I good right up about Google’s new policies from the other side.

Does anyone know if a court could require you to open a safety deposit box or a storage safe, or whether that actually does fall under the protections afforded by the Fifth Amendment?

“The Fourth Amendment protects the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Here, the Government’s physical intrusion on an “effect” for the purpose of obtaining information constitutes a “search.” This type of encroachment on an area enumerated in the Amendment would have been considered a search within the meaning of the Amendment at the time it was adopted.”

—Supreme Court: Warrantless GPS Tracking Is Unconstitutional