Tag: illness
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Alpha-Gal and the Gaia Hypothesis
A tick bite can make you allergic to non-primate mammals. Gaia hypothesis advocates might suggest that the increase in frequency of such bites is an example of the Earth fighting back against intensive farming's impact on climate.
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Long-forgotten virus could help solve antibiotics crisis
Alexander Belcredi (TED)
Fantastic lightweight introduction to bacteriophages and how they can potentially be our next best weapon against infection as we approach the post-antibiotic age. Plus an interesting look at the history and the discovery of bacteriophages! -
Hey look: it's my left kidney! Dumb, I know, but I never realised that it'd look so... kidney-shaped!
AltDan's left kidney
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Calculating Pi (when you're ill)
Dan's stuck in bed while he recovers following a medical issue. But while his body's recovering, he's been occupying his brain by writing software to visually approximate the digits of pi!
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Guess where I woke up this morning, MegaMasons?
So yeah: that's not entirely pleasant. A couple of days ago I was diagnosed with what was supposed to be a minor bladder infection and given antibiotics. Then yesterday I became feverish and collapsed. And now I'm in hospital.
But on the upside, they've spent all night pumping me full of some kind of … -
Health. Food.
You can tell when Dan's recovering from illness, because he starts craving the most otherwise-disgusting foodstuffs. Here's a recipe...
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Hello 2013: Goodbye 2012
In a belated blog post, Dan looks back on 2012, and describes it as one of the hardest years of his life.
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STD Cupcakes: diagnose yourself while you eat!
AltSTD cupcakes
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Worst Weekend Of Cinema - Part 2
In another bad cinema experience, Dan ends up watching the truly dreadful Piranha 3DD.
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Violently Ill
Argh.
The worst part of being so horribly ill is the moment when you're dashing to the toilet before you pebbledash the floor with your arse... and at that moment you realise that your stomach is about to eject it's contents, too. What a paradox.
In any case - it's not all bad news: the Ship & … -
A Selection Of News Items From Around The World
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[more of this post was recovered on Friday 24 November 2017]
Here's some stuff I found interesting this weekend:
Swedish health workers, in an effort to stem the growing cases of … -
Calling In Sick
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Feel rotten. And I'm supposed to be back at work, today. Called in sick, especially apologetically.
Had another lariam-induced mood swing yesterday, and became especially grotty to people, so went … -
Plague
It's contagious! I have a dull ache in my head and a mild nausea.
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How Am I Supposed To Feel?
After my stressy-rant the other day, Claire, Kit and Paul started tidying up Claire and my flat. My suspicions - that they were doing this to try to make my life a little less stressful - were confirmed by Claire one evening.
They mean well, but I can't help but feel that instead of having lots …