Category: Coping with COVID
The Washington Post ruins April Fools’ Day, 2025 edition
Washington Post Today is actually April 1, or April Fools’ Day, when it’s considered funny and appropriate for brands to post inaccurate information. At The Washington Post, we like to get into the spirit of the holiday by rounding up every corporate April Fools’ joke we can find and debunking them all in a humorless list. Let’s […]
Apr 2, 2025
Man’s Two-Year Hiccups Triggered by Rare Allergy Condition
Gizmodo Talk about a bad hiccup attack. In a recent case report, doctors describe an elderly man who endured years of incurable hiccups ultimately caused by an allergic condition. Doctors in Lebanon detailed the strange medical tale in a paper published this month in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. The man’s hiccups got so bad that […]
Mar 26, 2025
Scientists Found The Silent ‘Scream’ of Human Skin For The First Time
Science Alert The body you inhabit is made up of lots of moving parts that need to communicate with each other. Some of this communication – in the nervous system, for example – takes the form of bioelectrical signals that propagate through the body to trigger the appropriate response. Now, US researchers have discovered that […]
Mar 18, 2025
This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain
ARS Technica Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a woman’s brain and causing rare and rapidly progressing lesions. The previously healthy 60-year-old woman went to the hospital after having a fever and altered mental status for three days, according to a report of her case published Monday in JAMA Neurology. […]
Mar 11, 2025
Roald Dahl’s Heartbreaking Letter About Losing his Daughter in 1962
Brain Food Roald Dahl, the beloved author of my personal favorites Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda and The BFG, lost his eldest daughter, Olivia, to measles in the early 60s. It wasn’t until 1988, however, that he penned a remarkable letter that doubles as a plea to parents, urging them to have their children vaccinated. The letter is […]
Mar 5, 2025
Australia holds its nose for its 3rd rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
corpse flower
Feb 26, 2025
Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in 1495 may finally have been discovered — hidden under a castle in Milan
Live Science Researchers may have found the hidden tunnels beneath a castle in Milan that Leonardo da Vinci sketched in 1495. Mysterious underground passages sketched by Leonardo da Vinci have finally been identified below Sforza Castle in Milan. The experts who found the tunnels, which are part of early military defenses, suggest that there may […]
Feb 12, 2025
Diagnostic dilemma: A man ended up in the ER after drinking 6 gallons of milk in 2 days
Live Science A man experiencing excessive thirst drank lots of milk, with dangerous consequences. The patient: A 54-year-old man in Rotterdam, Netherlands The symptoms: The patient visited the emergency room after experiencing shortness of breath, as well as excessive sweating, urination and thirst, for eight days. His abdomen was swollen and distended. What happened next: Two days before […]
Feb 5, 2025
California surfer catches possible world record wave
A California surfer may have broken a world record when he shredded a wave estimated to be 108 feet tall. Alessandro “Alo” Slebir, 23, was surfing with friends on Dec. 23 at Mavericks, near Half Moon Bay, when he caught the enormous wave.
Jan 29, 2025
Farmers and Doctors
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Jan 22, 2025