The entire collection of Medscape articles can be found here

COVID at 2 Years: Preparing for a Different 'Normal'

How the Pandemic Led to Disarray ― and Discovery: The droplet dogma, changes in testing methods, and rapid publication

...True airborne spread of infections was thought to be rare. Infectious disease expert Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, listened to ( Read more... )

USPS just delivered a letter from an American soldier in Germany. It was 76 years late.

American soldier John Gonsalves was serving in Germany in the aftermath of World War II when he wrote a letter to his mother in Massachusetts in 1945. Last month, the U.S. Postal Service finally delivered the letter to his family - 76 years late.

Angelina “Jean” ( Read more... )

With many thanks to egg_shell  for these :)
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(gallium destroys aluminum)

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(Aluminum and mercury amalgam formation)

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Too many antioxidants can give you cancer, and other facts about the misunderstood molecules, from Popular Science

(many links to other interesting articles within this article)

I am not gonna die on the internet for you: How game streaming went from dream job to a burnout nightmare, from The Guardian

I don't hike to lose weight. I hike because I love ( Read more... )

Collected over the last month; hope you find something to interest or amuse you :)
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Today in Find the Cat:

https://twitter.com/katehinds/status/1269697161329082370/photo/1

(I must confess that I was not able to find the cat! See if you can ;))

My 17 Illustrations To Reflect On Our Lives During The COVID-19 ( Read more... )

https://twitter.com/MarkRober/status/1264620585285373952

Check out this squirrel obstacle course!

Interpreting COVID Findings: Avoid These Dangerous Mistakes, by F. Perry Wilson on Medscape

Why we might not get a coronavirus vaccine, a well-thought-out article from The Guardian (thanks to lindahoyland for the link!)

A Quick Summary of the COVID-19 Literature So Far, from Medscape

Cats observing social distancing, from The Philippine Star, on Twitter ( Read more... )

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https://youtu.be/h4MhbkWJzKk

Informative and funny; do take a look if you'd not seen this before.

That discomfort you're feeling is grief (and how to manage it), from Harvard Business Review

Four Reasons Coronavirus is Hitting Black Communities So Hard, from The Washington Post

Treatment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): Investigational Drugs and Other Therapies, from Medscape

Is COVID-19 Leading to a Mental Illness Pandemic?, from ( Read more... )

Please don't try this at home

An astrophysicist wound up in the hospital with magnets stuck up his nose, after attempting to invent a coronavirus device that would warn the wearer if they were about to touch their face, the Guardian reports.

Daniel Reardon, a research fellow at a Melbourne university, said he put magnets on the inside and outside of ( Read more... )