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A meta-analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the 2019 form of coronavirus that led to the COVID-19 pandemic, found that the chance an infected person showing symptoms was infecting someone else even in their home was only 18%, while it plummeted to 0.7% if they are not symptomatic.
The pool was not small, it was data from over 77,000 participants. That's actually good news, and it may mean a return to normalcy, because if even being trapped in a home with someone has only a minor risk for those not at respiratory distress risk from flu or anything else,…
It is not sexist to avoid calling Jill Biden Doctor Biden in situations where her doctorate is not relevant. Almost nobody says Doctor Albert Einstein, Doctor Stephen Hawking, Doctor Marie Curie, Doctor Emmy Noether does that make those people who “refuse” to call them doctor antisemitic, ableist, or sexist? If I simply refer to Doctor Richard Feynman as Richard Feynman am, I dis respecting him? No one has ever said that about any of those towering historical figures in the fields of theoretical and experimental physics. The most fundamental of the sciences and acknowledged…
Buprenorphine, a lifesaving opioid addiction medicine, is FDA-approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnant women, but doctors need an X-waiver, a certification that allows them to prescribe opioid treatment medications.
Buprenorphine is a "partial-agonist" which soothes the brain's cravings for opioids by partially activating opiate receptors, and binding to them tightly, decreasing the risk of fatal overdoses. Obtaining an X-waiver requires training, but it's only eight hours for physicians and 24 hours for nurse-practitioners and physician assistants. …
Have you ever answered a phone call from a stranger and had them introduce themselves and then ask how you are doing? Somewhere, someone created that tactic with the belief that it makes callers seem interested in your life but because you know they are not, it is probably annoying.
And yet if you know someone well and they call you and have a problem they need help with, you are more likely to respond positively. You have probably had numerous unstructured chats with that person and are more inclined to let them speak. This is the opposite of pandemic meetings in 2020, where everyone…
The three recent appearances (and two subsequent removals) of “monoliths” in Romania, Utah and California are intriguing examples of what can capture the public’s imagination.
These constructions are metallic-looking structures about three or four metres tall, with a simple geometric design and reflective surface.
They’ll look familiar to fans of Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey novels, sharing an uncanny resemblance to a monolithic structure pivotal to the story.
Adding to the mystery, the Utah monolith was reportedly in place long before it came to light on November 18. While its…
Tab, the Coca-Cola company’s original diet soda brand, is headed to the soda graveyard, joining retired brands such as Like, Leed and Limette.
Coca-Cola has announced that it is discontinuing Tab after 57 years on the market, and fans of the drink will have until the end of December to purchase their last can of nostalgia.
From the beginning, Tab’s story has been one of perseverance. The brand survived initial low sales, the artificial sweetener scares of the 1960s and 1970s, lukewarm enthusiasm for the product at the corporate level and intermittent consumer availability to become – for a…
This is yet another baloney false prophecy from Paul Begley. This is scaring people I help to the point of being suicidal and having serious impacts on their lives. If any of you are journalists for the Sun or the Daily Express or the other papers who are running this story - you know that it is not true, that your stories are just click bait nonsense. Please consider the impact of your stories on suicidal people.. Thanks!
There is nothing here to be scared of. This story is utter bullshit, baloney, codswallop. It is nothing to do with Mayans; it is not Christian; it is nothing, just made up…
There is only one valid, not breathtakingly hypocritical opinion anyone who has claimed to believe in science can have on this vaccine. Give it to me fast and strong.. give me that vaccine ASAP. I want to make this clear to anyone over the age of 18 with an education above 11th grade. Trust qualified expertise. A well-respected drug company, who accepted an order for 100 million doses of any potential covid vaccine has found it. Yes, it was announced by Trump and Pence. Yes, Dr Fauci says it is ok. The timing of it had nothing to do with…
That gooey cheese you see in pizza advertising is actually glue. That's probably not a surprise. Consumers understand that with choices, marketing matters. With over 20 food ads seen per day, educated people recognize that though organic food contains toxic pesticides their advertising will have images of produce weeded by hand on tiny plots, while fast food looks both huge and savory and is likewise disappointing in reality.
Less clear is why people think prettier food is actually healthier.
Looking at beautiful art and people activates the brain's reward center and observing beauty is…
Democrats favor LGBT people in the culture war but seem to favor only certain kinds of science, not including space exploration or high energy physics. Two areas where fundamental physics expertise is of value. Too often science priorities are viewed as another front in the culture war. Joe Biden is likely above that, but the rest of his party has historically had a habit of cutting funding to major science projects. First let me present evidence for this fact both past and current, then I will reflect. It is under democratic administrations that the Super…