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Sunday, 14 December 2025
quote [ Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming?s famed discovery. ]
Go get your penicillin.
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Sunday, 19 October 2025
quote [ Most searches take me one to three hours. I first make sure I?m understanding what?s needed: asking clarifying questions, looking up terms. I figure out how to query the database, what words to search for and how to put them together. ]
That's a very interesting interview and some insight into how medical staff gets research updates.
thumb via New Old Stock
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Saturday, 18 October 2025
quote [ Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days ]
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Monday, 25 August 2025
quote [ Wolfgang Leitner, chief of the Innate Immunity Section at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), speculates that covid-19 may somehow impair the immune system?s ?memory? of past infections, potentially making even healthy people more vulnerable to future pathogens. ]
A gladly rather dry account of medical people speculating on various illnesses becoming more common in the British Medical Journal; further contributing to everybody feeling a bit shitty as of late.
Thumb via New Old Stock.
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Saturday, 23 August 2025
quote [ On the surprising iOS App Store success of Focus Friend, the ADHD-support app backed by Hank Green. It?s like an inverted Tamagotchi that knits socks. ]
Before I go you got ADHD and one more thing
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Monday, 18 August 2025
quote [ Life insurers can predict when you'll die with about 98% accuracy.
[?] Right now, insurers are getting fooled by mirages of good health that disappear when people quit treatment. The companies that turn those mirages into reality, by you know, actually keeping people on medication, will be solving a problem that insurers will want to throw money at. ] Interesting aspect of new-age drugs messing with statistics. Kind of creepy otherwise how you decipher health habits from questionnaires alone.
Thumb is Tiddlywinks via New Old Stock.
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Saturday, 26 July 2025
quote [ In sum, one theory is that ChatGPT, which was trained on huge amounts of text sourced online, digested large amounts of SCP fiction during its creation and is now parroting it back to Lewis in a way that has led him to a dark place. ]
Creepy twist on the pizza glue aspect of re-assembling internet words without context while only being able to give yes-answers. It was linked in the conversation on Microsoft publishing incrompehensible AI-assisted layoff briefings.
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Friday, 6 June 2025
quote [ When a colleague first presented test results at the lab?s weekly meeting, Cevaal said, they seemed too good to be true.
[?] ?Ultimately, one big unknown remains. Do you need to eliminate the entire reservoir for success or just the major part? If just 10% of the latent reservoir survives will that be sufficient to seed new infection? Only time will tell. ] So they're applying this mRNA thing as well but needed a trick to make it work. Exciting!
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Wednesday, 4 June 2025
quote [ In Colorado, scientists are looking to bring psychedelic mushrooms to the masses. Could their purported healing properties help me? ]
She be trippin' on me, I be tripping shrooms (I be tripping shrooms)
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Sunday, 23 March 2025
quote [ One of them is a doctor who likes to play it safe. The other is a regular dude who?s willing to try anything. Both of them have long COVID. In their desperate search for answers, two men are bonded by their quest to feel like themselves again. ]
You're at risk of long Covid
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