Category: Coping with COVID
This Extremely Rare Neurological Condition Makes Faces Appear Distorted or ‘Like a Demon’
Smithsonian For the first time, scientists have recreated what one patient suffering from prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO, sees when he looks at faces. One winter morning roughly three years ago, Victor Sharrah woke up and spotted his roommate walking to the bathroom. However, when Sharrah looked at his roommate’s face, he was startled to see that […]
Mar 26, 2024
They panic-bought bidets during the pandemic. It changed their lives.
Washington Post While the toilet paper shortages that hit the United States during pandemic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 ultimately eased up, they’ve had a lasting impact on one industry: the bidet business. “The industry here in the U.S. just blew up. You couldn’t get a bidet if you wanted to,” says James Lin, founder of BidetKing.com, […]
Mar 19, 2024
Man finds out migraines caused by brain tapeworms; undercooked bacon may be culprit
NBC News The 52-year-old American man was diagnosed with neurocysticercosis. His only habit connected to the parasitic infection was eating “lightly cooked, non-crispy bacon,” new study says. A man was hospitalized with worsening migraines only to find out they were caused by parasitic tapeworm larvae in his brain — and researchers believe he was infected by eating undercooked bacon. […]
Mar 12, 2024
A Look Back at 1924
The Atlantic A century ago, regular radio broadcasts were on the rise, and people began tuning in to entertainment and news from around the world. Paris hosted the 1924 Summer Olympics, advancements in aviation were being made on several fronts, automobiles were becoming more prevalent (and dangerous), and prohibition in the U.S. was still in […]
Mar 6, 2024
Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains
NPR It was the first day of spring break in 1992 in Phoenix, and 12-year-old Heather Smith was excited for her family’s upcoming ski trip. But before Smith and her family had even packed their snow pants, she realized she didn’t feel good. “I woke up feeling just a little bit nauseous, and I wasn’t […]
Feb 6, 2024
See what your brain does when you look at art
BBC Video Headsets that show the impact of art on human brainwaves are to be toured at museums and galleries around the UK. They are connected to an electroencephalogram (EEG) monitor and allow people’s brainwaves to be visualised in 3D and in real-time on screen. The technology has already been used at the Courtauld Gallery […]
Jan 31, 2024
