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Perspective is Everything
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What fires together wires together
I’m reminded of a case study that describes an individual who had come to associate sexual arousal with being covered in insects. As a child, that individual had been locked into closets for unimaginable amounts of time, and during those times, bugs would frequently fill the space and crawl on him. The child, trying to seek some sort of escape from ( Read more... ) -
Why Dirt Helps Wounds Heal
In the field, some practitioners will pack an open wound with black soil to help it heal. You can get black peat that is used for this purpose and others. It is not pasteurized or sterilized in any way; it is full of living organisms. After the battle of Shiloh in the US civil war, soldiers whose wounds glowed in the dark had better survival. ( Read more... ) -
QotD: the Right Word
The difference between the right word
and the almost right word
is like the difference between lightning
and the lightning bug.
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Environmental Medicine (week 8): Soil Safety
Pesticides, etc.
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Microbiology: African Sleeping Sickness
Sleeping sickness aka African trypanosomiasis ( Read more... ) -
Cockroach Brains May Be a Source of New Antibiotics
...the central nervous systems of American cockroaches produce natural antibiotics that can kill off bacteria often deadly to humans, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and toxic strains of Escherichia coli, scientists said this week. microbes, antibiotics, insectsChagas Disease: about the causative organism T.cruzi
not to be confused with African trypanosomiasis which is caused by T. brucei gambiense and T. brucei rhodesiense and transmitted by Tse Tse flise
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In the distance a metal machine is banging rhythmically and ringing with a medium tone. The radio is playing the BBC program World Have Your Say, on why nobody seems willing to criticize Obama. I am willing. He just doesn't tell me enough specifics for my criticisms to be anything more than not knowing his intentions or character, and being ( Read more... )Protozoan Parasites
including: AMOEBAE, FLAGELLATED PROTOZOA and SPOROZOA
( these notes integrated June 2012 )