Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-12-2010

[andrewducker]

• Excellent Foppery - on injecting story into the world
  (tags: literature story writing GrahamSleight)
• Weight Watchers does work, say scientists
  (tags: diet health)
• The gay culture war is about to turn chemical.
  (tags: science homosexuality culture gay religion rights)
• The only show in existence that's less consistent that Dr Who
  (tags: satire funny history fiction wwii)
• Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover
  (tags: economy bank banking government usa)
• The Value of Different Perspectives
  (tags: perspective psychology usa)
• You're Doing it Wrong - how "optimal" algorithms can be slow by an order of magnitude
  (tags: performance memory programming algorithms cache)
• Female mice can be given male brains and made to mate with other females by deleting a gene.
  (tags: science animals genetics brain estrogen)
• 8-Bit Cities
  (tags: city map london geography games visualization)

Comments

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

"This time they were followed up for a year to see whether those who lost weight kept it off."

My understanding is that keeping weight off for a year isn't particularly notable, that most of the people who keep the weight off for a year still manage to gain it all back in a 2-5 year period.

Also, I don't know if this study is a victim of poor science journalism, but I just don't have any patience for all the BMI-fetishizing obesity epidemic we're all doomed blah blah blah whatever anymore.