Link. Every physician wants one. Nurses need this.
Daily Archives: July 7, 2020
“Hittite king got a letter from someone claiming to be a foreign queen, promising to share her vast wealth with him if he would just send her a small token. He assumed it was a scam and replied with an insulting message — except it was real!”
Link. I’m just a Munroe fanboi.
“why humans can skate faster than they run, Dr. Weyand said: “On skates, you’re on the ground most of the time, like the quadrupeds, instead of being in the air.”
Link. Great discussion.
“One thioacetone reaction produced a smell so bad that it spilled out of the lab and swept through the city, causing widespread panic and evacuation,”
Link. Looks like Munroe is doing monthly column for NYT Science.
Randall Munroe doing science for NYT: Snowball of Neutrinos
Link. There’s a billion/trillion error in text. Hope this is regular column
“What makes a hostel worth the gym mats moonlighting as mattresses or the bunk mate who snores so very, very loudly is the people you encounter”
Link. A COVID casualty.
“In his latest attempt to stoke white fear ahead of the November election”
Link. NYT is getting better at covering Trump.
4 Families Take On Rare Diseases.
Link. Rett I’d heard of. Others very rare. All terrible. Astounding efforts, but also unlikely to work.
“maraviroc and nicotinamide, are thought to lure H.I.V. out of its hiding spots in the body, allowing the other drugs to kill the virus.”
Link. Even if not perfect, could we treat HIV with intermittent therapies?
“Per million people, Sweden has suffered 40 percent more deaths than the United States, 12 times more than Norway, seven times more than Finland and six times more than Denmark”
Link. We are not the Stupidest!!
“As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf.”
Link. Surprise.
Injectable drug prevents HIV infection for 2 months
Link. Likely more effective than oral prophylaxis.