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Pick a few topicsMaking sense of COVID19 through simulations
From Explorable Explanations
Laila Yuile’s comments
I’m still home sick today, along with half the valley from the number of comments on a post in Comox Valley community yesterday! Take your pick – rhinovirus, covid and the flu […]
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Corona Simulator
why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve”
From Explorable Explanations
Vote Against the Agenda of the Most Polluter-Positive President in Living Memory
Sometimes people say political parties in the U.S. are both corrupt, that it doesn't matter who is in power, that industry holds sway over our politics and our health regardless. Nothing could be more mistaken. Just now, The New York Times exposed how many Americans -- at least 3.3 million people…
From Kagi Small Web
A Journey Through Infertility
An interactive journey about IVF, told from two perspectives.
From The Pudding
Years You Have Left to Live, Probably
Great illustration of survival analysis, and of probabalistic proccesses in general.
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Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)
Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
From The Public Domain Review
A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)
A medical tract on the health effects of burying oneself alive in mud.
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The Cost Before the Wait
Unpredictable appointments can cost you a day’s wages even when you hardly wait.
From Kagi Small Web
HealthViewer – A local-first desktop app for tracking lab results
A private lab results tracker for your desktop. Import lab reports, chart every test over time, and keep it all encrypted on your own computer.
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Contrast Checker
Make sure your foreground/background colors are accessible.
From Tiny Tools Directory
protecting lives & liberty
how contact tracing apps can foil both COVID-19 & Big Brother
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Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering
To invade red blood cells, the deadly protist creates a temporary molecular portal that disappears behind it — a door we can now see in fine detail. The post Malaria Parasite Caught in the Act of Breaking and Entering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
From Quanta Magazine
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a…
Science is fun. Science is when you do an experiment with participants, and then talk with a participant afterwards, and learn that yeah, actually, doctors are not supposed to give you propophol as a general anesthetic if you have a soy allergy. Which is really good to fucking know. Which is why I…
From Kagi Small Web
Independent Vet – Find locally owned vets (and corporate ones) near you
Find locally owned veterinary practices near you and see which clinics are verified independent or corporately owned.
From Show HN
A phone lock I can't undo on impulse because I never learn the code
We lock your phone with Apple's Assistive Access and hold the passcode — no cheating, no override, until your fast ends.
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I hate Migraines
I’ve been in bed all day, unable to function. I had a really bad migraine. It was so painful. I have been eating painkillers. Thankfully, it is gone now. I slept a lot and had weird dreams. Now I am up at 2 AM. Ready to start my day. I put music on and one […]
From Kagi Small Web
Years You Have Left To Live, Probably
a morbid simulation using your info + CDC data
From Explorable Explanations
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