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mr kaplan

Be afraid: America's paranoid history - Salon.com - 22 views

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  • mr kaplan on 19 Nov 16
     
    Be afraid: America's paranoid history From the Muslim witch hunt to Hollywood's "The Watch," the paranoid style still infects our culture Andrew O'Hehir
  • mr kaplan on 19 Nov 16
     
    Be afraid: America's paranoid history From the Muslim witch hunt to Hollywood's "The Watch," the paranoid style still infects our culture Andrew O'Hehir
Holly Barlaam

Malaria Lifecycle Part 1: Human Host | Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research - 50 views

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  • Holly Barlaam on 03 Dec 11
     
    EXCELLENT video on malaria lifecycle showing how the parasite infects a human host
Julie Dillard

What is Smallpox | Edward Jenner Museum, Gloucestershire - 19 views

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  • enters the body through the lungs and is carried in the blood to the internal organs, which it infects.
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  • Julie Dillard on 05 Mar 11
     
    ELA Epidemics Research
Michele Brown

Zombies: STEM Behind Hollywood by Texas Instruments - US and Canada - 47 views

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  • Michele Brown on 19 Aug 13
     
    This looks really cool. "Zombie Apocalypse, a Hollywood-inspired TI-Nspire™ math and science activity, models the transmission of a hypothetical zombie contagion through the human population, the infection rate and logistics patterns due to resource limits."
Jennie Snyder

Atul Gawande: How Do Good Ideas Spread? : The New Yorker - 36 views

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  • Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others so slowly
  • Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the nineteenth century.
  • The first public demonstration of anesthesia was in 1846.
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  • nsisted that he had found a gas that could render patients insensible to the pain of surgery.
  • The idea spread like a contagion, travelling through letters, meetings, and periodicals. By mid-December, surgeons were administering ether to patients in Paris and London. By February, anesthesia had been used in almost all the capitals of Europe, and by June in most regions of the world.
  • On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Morton administered his gas through an inhaler in the mouth of a young man undergoing the excision of a tumor in his jaw.
  • Four weeks later, on November 18th, Bigelow published his report on the discovery of “insensibility produced by inhalation” in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
  • There were forces of resistance, to be sure. Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs.
  • Yet soon even the obstructors, “with a run, mounted behind—hurrahing and shouting with the best.” Within seven years, virtually every hospital in America and Britain had adopted the new discovery.
  • Sepsis—infection—was the other great scourge of surgery. It was the single biggest killer of surgical patients, claiming as many as half of those who underwent major operations
  • nfection was so prevalent that suppuration—the discharge of pus from a surgical wound—was thought to be a necessary part of healing.
  • In the eighteen-sixties, the Edinburgh surgeon Joseph Lister read a paper by Louis Pasteur laying out his evidence that spoiling and fermentation were the consequence of microorganisms. Lister became convinced that the same process accounted for wound sepsis.
  • Lister had read about the city of Carlisle’s success in using a small amount of carbolic acid to eliminate the odor of sewage, and reasoned that it was destroying germs. Maybe it could do the same in surgery.
  • During the next few years, he perfected ways to use carbolic acid for cleansing hands and wounds and destroying any germs that might enter the operating field.
  • The result was strikingly lower rates of sepsis and death.
  • Far from it.
  • Surgeons soaked their instruments in carbolic acid, but they continued to operate in black frock coats stiffened with the blood and viscera of previous operations—the badge of a busy practice.
  • hey reused sea sponges without sterilizing them.
  • It was a generation before Lister’s recommendations became routine and the next steps were taken toward the modern standard of asepsis—that is, entirely excluding germs from the surgical field, using heat-sterilized instruments and surgical teams clad in sterile gowns and gloves.
  • Maybe ideas that violate prior beliefs are harder to embrace. To nineteenth-century surgeons, germ theory seemed as illogica
  • The technical complexity might have been part of the difficulty. Giving Lister’s methods “a try” required painstaking attention to detail.
Jacquelyn Karney

For Anxious Dementia Patients, Robot Pets May Be A Solution - 10 views

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      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      I think that is interesting.  I bet that a real pet would be better though
  • It can show emotions such as surprise, happiness and anger, can learn its own name and learns to respond to words that its owner uses frequently.
    • Jacquelyn Karney
      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      That is pretty amazing but these emotions aren't "real" since the robot has no brain!
  • owever, the presence of animals in residential care home settings can place residents at risk of infection or injury and create additional duties for nursing staff. Robots would obviously alleviate that.
    • Jacquelyn Karney
      Jacquelyn Karney on 28 Jul 13
       
      What do you think of robot pets?  What are the pros and cons?
Randy Moore

How to Remove Spyware Manually (Windows) - wikiHow - 0 views

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      Randy Moore on 07 Aug 09
       
      I get requests for fixing infected computers occasionally. I usually recommend reformat and reinstall everything. Going to have to try this to see how it works!
Lennie Symes

Download Free AVG Rescue Bootup CD: Repair Infected Computers - 12 views

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  • Lennie Symes on 30 Mar 10
     
    "AVG Rescue CD is basically a portable version of AVG Anti-Virus supplied through Linux distribution which can be used as a bootable CD or bootable USB flash drive suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems) from virus and spyware attack. AVG Rescue CD administration toolset also includes a Windows Registry editor, a TestDisk utility for recovering deleted files and lost partitions, a file browser for navigating folders, and a Ping tool for basic network diagnostics. How does AVG rescue CD work? Simply download to any CD or USB stick and insert into damaged computer like a recovery disk. Upon booting, the free AVG software will automatically mount all hard drives of the computer and scan them for viruses and malware, while automatically restoring a safe network connection. Download AVG Rescue Free now onto any CD or DVD or USB flash drive. They promise free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product."
marshastockphd

How urbanization affects the epidemiology of emerging infectious diseases | Neiderud | ... - 17 views

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