Though it has accelerated in recent years, outsourcing to countries with lower labor costs has been a factor in the visual effects business for more than a decade.
Researchers don't yet know how to explain these correlations -- and since the study was not a controlled trial, it's not clear whether marijuana or some other factor in marijuana users' lifestyles actually accounted for the beneficial effects.
But scientists from three hospitals in Boston, USA, found that they could temporarily reverse the effects by extracting skin cells from patients whose DNA can't make factor VIII.
Daniel Cota of Color Effects is another example of an app developer who uses the larger form factor of the iPad to serve a larger number of contextually relevant signup ads.
Ironically, because past research studying the after-effects of exposure to things like atom bombs and radiation treatments for cancer suggests the most important environmental risk factor for meningiomas is ionising radiation.