The Daily Mail article is not about how Connie was wrong. The Independent piece provides the alternative version to Connie's, in which Tim Hunt's comments are framed as a sarcastic protrayal of "what is keeping women out of STEM" (the classic boys club accusation) and adds the follow-up he did, telling women to not be discouraged by it and to go forward.

The Daily Mail simply did some digging into who exactly this Connie St Louis person is, and why maybe we should ask questions before we simply give her 100% trust in this matter.

When people say "Starvation Mode", they believe that suddenly their body retains all calories in ingests and instantly stores them for future use, and that their BMR and TDEE suddenly shoot down severely.

In actual practice, "starvation mode" results in maybe a different of about 30-50 calories in your TDEE. It might as well not exist, it won't "destroy your metabolism".

Take all those shows nowadays that simply tell people that say "I have slow metabolism", they just shove those guys under the tent and measure it to show them their metabolism is right, then they shove Double Labelled Water down their gullets and show them they are in fact over-eating like crazy.

I suggest reading the non-FA, non-HAES polluted wiki entry on the subject :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation_response#In_humans

"Consuming fewer calories" in order to maintain your TDEE (BMR+activity) is called being "Normal". If you gain weight, you are overeating. If you cannot stop overeating, you have what is called a Eating Disorder.

Yes, normal people can "consume fewer calories", year after year after year, when they actually listen to satiety cues your body gives you, and eat proper non-processed foods in right quantities so that the majority of what you ingest is not calorie-dense (half a plate of vegetables has 1/10 the caloric content of half a plate of fries for example).

Starvation mode doesn't actually exist. Especially not if you're eating at least once a day. While your body can optimize some aspects of how it uses energy (which will result in you feeling like total crap as your breathing and heart rate slows even though your body needs more oxygen/blood flow to spread it), this won't be a drastic drop in calorie consumption to maintain your BMR (Basic Metabolic Rate).

You cannot put on weight if you do not ingest the calories. Period. If you do, check yourself in to the closest pharma ASAP, you're body is very special and just broke every law of physics relating conservation there is. You need to be studied so that we can use your magic properties to help the world's energy crisis.

They also pissed off "the better man". https://twitter.com/FamedGod/s...

That is Windows 9x's login screen which could also be bypassed with ESC or just hitting Cancel in many cases. The CTRL+ALT+DEL login unlock was used on Windows NT, which does not use that login screen ;)

Actually, no one sells the information they gather to advertisers, that's just bad business. What they sell is ad placement based on the information they've gathered. The advertiser has no access to it.

As a healer in Vanilla. Sorry. Healing was never complex. If anything it's more complex now than it was back when healers had 2-3 healing spells, 1 HoT and 1 cleansing spell.

Too easy ? Someone hasn't tried heroic raiding or Challenge modes it seems... If anything, the game now has even more challenge than it did back in the days.

Oh please, the body is not some kind of magic entity that can ignore the laws of physics. Your body needs energy to function and the calories you consume are that energy. Your metabolism can slow down to some extent, but it's not as drastic as you say. "Starvation mode" is simply what the people who binge in secret tell you. Adjust your caloric intake to under or just at your base metabolism and you will lose weight, your body won't magically start running on hopes and dreams while it stores calories.

The opposite is true, your body doesn't "burn the extra calories" either, it stores them. That's how you gain weight. The plain fact is, the only way to lose weight is to consume less calories than you burn. No magic hocus pocus, no "starvation mode", no nothing. The more you consume, the more you need to burn. And aside from a few big name athletes, exercise will burn less than your base metabolism anyhow (my base metabolism is at about 1700-1750 calories/day last time I had it measured).

Of course, John Gruber would never post anything negative about Apple or would never admit to them making a mistake. So we can pretty much discount his opinion and pure "damage control". That's what he always does anyhow. I don't know why people still defer to him, he's basically Apple's PR machine, along with AllThingsD.com.

I made no points. I explained to people what was being discussed in the video. Why are you responding to me ? I framed the context. You don't agree with the context I framed ?

Did you watch the video ? At all ? Linus is voicing is concerns, not telling nVidia how they should operate. He's describing the problem basically... What nVidia thinks and does is out of bounds and plainly obvious, you're restating what Linus is stating...

Hence why I don't get your point.

Hence why it's Linus (the project lead) that's talking about it ? He's voicing his concern... I don't get what you're even trying to get at here...