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Don't Come Crying to Me About The Pandemic
Dear Readers, I hope that you'll allow me to do some venting. While I'll admit that even I was blindsided by the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm really not at all surprised that it happened. I was expecting something like it. Hell, I'm still expecting something far worse. I've warned about such things for some time, and I've written about my warnings here and elsewhere.
By Daniel Goldman6 years ago in Longevity
I Hate To Say I Told You So
On March 11th I published a thought piece telling people to stop telling me to calm the fuck down about COVID-19, and largely I was ignored. I kept getting told to calm down, that it wasn't that bad. Now there are over 200,000 people dead and over 3 million cases globally. Nearly a third of those are in the United States cases and a quarter of those deaths are in the United States. Why? Because you chuckle-heads thought that this was some liberal hoax, spun up by the main stream media?
By Paige Graffunder6 years ago in Longevity
Corona Viruses, virus, infection, prevention, treatment, symptoms, vaccine, pandemic, epidemic, and everything you must know to survive COVID19(covid20)
Now I know what you are thinking another article about washing hands 5 times a day which you hopefully are already doing, but no wait! This article is on a different approach.
By S.Ali6 years ago in Longevity
CRISPR-Cas9; The Powerful Gene Editor
As we clearly know that our body is an engine made up of complex materials that works day and night to keep us alive. Though we cannot see many of them from our naked eyes, we can feel them every single second of our life. With the advancement of Science & Technology, we have discovered so various new facts about the mechanism that our body undergoes every second of our life.
By Bikash Pokharel6 years ago in Longevity
Brainstorms IV - stress, how does it work?
Hi everyone! Yes, I am back… after a stressful start to the year with moving and shameful WiFi connection, I’ve managed to get my life in order (the COVID quarantine has helped, I have to admit) and once again I have time to write. Home office can be tough; after reading papers for the whole day my brain felt like it had been fried on a grill. So I decided to transform all the knowledge I had accumulated into a comprehensible summary of my (very broadly speaking) research topic: stress and mental health. Work and entertainment all in one ;) I found so many interesting facts about stress and our health that I decided to make this entry a bit broader and briefly include other brain disorders.
By Laura Sotillos Elliott6 years ago in Longevity
Scientifically Smiling
We've all seen the movie Inside Out, or at least heard of it. It is a beautiful work of art that depicts the turmoil and necessity of our emotions. Ask yourself, what is the emotion you most often feel and why? Now what is the emotion 99% of us want to feel as often as possible for as long as possible. HAPPINESS! I absolutely love smiling! In fact if you don't see me smiling then it more than likely means something is seriously wrong! However the art of smiling is able to quickly take away from those daunting feels and help bring your mindset back to a positive state and even assist with rationality.
By Nicolas Pequeux6 years ago in Longevity
Should You Throw Expired Medicine?
Expired Medicine So I was rummaging through an old bag that was kept into the uncharted depths of my closet. There were a few things that I found which surprised me (as I remember very well that I had discarded them). In this wasteland of banished objects, I found some pills laying around. So just as a normal human would do if he/she found some old medicine, I checked for the expiration date. The date was of 2018. So the medicines expired sometime in 2018. But what does that mean? The pills looked fine to me. And when exactly did the pills expire? I had to dig deeper. I also dug deeper into the bag and found some old photos of me, but that’s a matter for another article.
By Pranay Mishra6 years ago in Longevity
How does the stem cell retain its cellular identity?
Our body consists of various types of cells. Cells are the functional, biological, and structural building blocks of every living organism. One of the most versatile and unique cell types is Stem cells. They are present in the body right from the embryo stage to adult life. It has the unique ability to produce new specialized cells. Stem cells also supply new cells for the body while replacing the damaged specialized cells. One of the most significant properties of stem cells is to retain cellular identity. To understand cellular identity retention, let us first see what specialized stem cells are.
By Rebecca Smith6 years ago in Longevity
In Times of Stress, Breathe
Breathe. It is easy to be overwhelmed by fear in times of uncertainty. As Covid-19 sweeps the globe, many people find themselves being overwhelmed by stress. Stress and fear about contracting the virus, about losing their job, running out of food....and even running out of toilet paper. But constant stress can wreak havoc on our mental and physical health and our waistline.
By Jenny Beck6 years ago in Longevity
Is Suffering the Pain Worth It?
Many terminal patients want the right to assisted suicide because it is a means to endure their end without any unnecessary suffering and cost, physician-assisted suicide is always a huge topic that concerns people all over the world. The term physician-assisted suicide may refer to any circumstance in which a person intentionally provides someone with the means to end his or her life. Physician-assisted suicide is different from euthanasia, it is the act of “assisting” patients with their death by prescribed the lethal drug in order to end their suffering and euthanasia is the act of “requesting” for a lethal injection to end the patients’ life. The patients must meet certain requirements to be eligible for physician-assisted suicide and must take certain steps to complete the process. To be eligible for assisted suicide, the patients must be cognizant enough to make their own decisions regarding their care, have established residency in the state that is legalized, and have received a diagnosis that they will die within the next six months. In the United States, the legality of assisted suicide is determined at the state level, some states such as: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington are allowed physician-assisted suicide. Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized because this option might be the only way to die in peace, doctors should also respect the patients' will, doctors should let the patients decide how they want to die; most importantly, patients should have their own right to pursue their own death.
By Kenneth S6 years ago in Longevity
The Lowdown On Kidney Stones
By: Marlene Affeld According to the National Institute Of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, kidney stones, also known as renal lithiasis, are a common disorder of the urinary tract accounting for more than a million health care visits each year. Medical research studies indicate that one in ten people in the United States will experience a kidney stone within their lifetime. However, science has yet to pinpoint the reason why men tend to have more kidney stones (also called nephrolithiasis or urolithiasis) than women.
By Marlene Affeld6 years ago in Longevity
My little Virus
Viruses are in no way new territory for mankind, since the dawn of time they have been present, living within their hosts, evolving and adapting to carry on their legacies. But what exactly is a virus and how does it work? With all the chaos and panic surrounding Covid-19 (Corona Virus), which began in the Wuhan district of China towards the end of 2019 and has sky rocketed to being a global pandemic within the first 3 months of 2020, it may help to know what these tiny bio-machines are. After all knowledge is power and ignorance leads to panic. Let's just take a moment to shake our heads at whomever upgraded the Plague Inc game to Real World Edition.
By Nicolas Pequeux6 years ago in Longevity