Interesting Links for 18-05-2015

[andrewducker]

I concise guide to the current UK Cabinet. Well worth a read. (tags: uk politics conservatives ) JavaScript at 20 (tags: javascript ) Exercise alone won’t make you lose weight. (tags: exercise weight ) Beware Eurosceptic versions of history and science (tags: history science Europe ) How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins? (And how

Comments

[andrewducker]

New format for the links today.

What do people think - more readable with the tags smaller and indented a bit? Less readable? About the same?

[erindubitably]

IT'S DIFFERENT I HATE IT AHHHHHHHHH

[andrewducker]

As a neophile, I live to change something substantial every three weeks and make my readers scream.

[drdoug]

It is newer and therefore must be better and so I am sure I prefer it.

Can't wait for the next upgrade!

[bugshaw]

No line breaks on my Android phone, giant ceaseless text! (Nicer on laptop tho)

[andrewducker]

That's really odd! I tested it in both Firefox and Chrome on my Android phone and it looks fine!

Are you using the original Android browser? I don't think I can even run that on my phone any more!

[bugshaw]

Samsung not a year old, just checked in Chrome and no line breaks there either. Android 4.4.2. I can still tell where things are if you keep up your tags in brackets style. ..

[andrewducker]

Don't suppose you could screenshot for me?

[gonzo21]

So what we can take away from the Cabinet Appointments is the Tories have three big targets over the next 5 years, the BBC, the NHS, and Welfare Recipients, and they've brought in three big hitmen to do it.

[artkouros]

"adherents to conspiracy theories are highly receptive to claims that support their views and rarely engage with social media pages that question their beliefs."

Isn't that true for almost everyone?

[andrewducker]

I'm not sure what percentage of people it's true for, but it's apparently _more_ true for them.

[artkouros]

That certainly supports my beliefs about them.

[naath]

Exercise won't cause weight loss> no, but it will (probably) increase your cardio fitness and make you more healthy, regardless of what happens to your weight.

[andrewducker]

Well, yes. Was anyone saying it wouldn't?

[cartesiandaemon]

The article explicitly says exercise has lots of health benefits, they're just not necessarily weight-related. But the headline unsurprisingly says "Take off that Fitbit. Exercise alone won’t make you lose weight", which reads to me like someone had to write a catch headline and didn't have the luxury of bucking the "losing weight is the main goal of everything" dogma, even though that was what the article was about. But I may be too cynical...

[naath]

Yeah, the actual article isn't bad, but the headline is *dire*. As if the only point of exercise was weight loss.