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Avicenna’s Canon brilliantly synthesises Islamic medicine with that of Hippocrates (460 – 370 BC) and Galen (129 – 200 AD). There are also elements of ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. This was supplemented by Avicenna’s extensive medical experiences.

In the Canon, Avicenna introduced diagnoses and treatments for illnesses unknown to the Greeks, being the first doctor to describe meningitis. He made new arguments for the use of anaesthetics, analgesics, and anti-inflammatory substances.

Looking forward to modern notions of disease prevention, Avicenna proposed adjustments in diet and physical exercise could heal or prevent illnesses.

Avicenna was also vital to the development of cardiology, pulsology, and our understanding of cardiovascular diseases.

Avicenna’s detailed descriptions of capillary flow and arterial and ventricular contractions in the cardiovascular system (the blood and circulatory system) assisted the Arab-Syrian polymath Ibn al Nafis (1213-1288), who became the first physician to describe the blood’s pulmonary circulation, the movement of blood from the heart to the lungs and back again to the heart.

This happened in 1242, centuries before scientist William Harvey arrived at the same conclusion in 17th century England.

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New quiz! This is one is about Medieval scholarship!

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Updating of Sporcle NHL Quizzes Underway!

'Tis that time of year again, when the updating of NHL quizzes at Sporcle gets underway! Slightly complicated, this year, by the fact that today is also the day when Sporcle switched me over to the new quiz-creation dashboard, so there's a tiny bit of a learning curve going on (I got this one updated this morning, and it seems to have gone fine: https://www.sporcle.com/games/Chunklets/50ggoalies). Anyway, it usually takes me a couple of weeks to get everything updated, but I hope to have it all done by May 1st!

Re: the Arizona Coyotes (and all condolences and good thoughts to their fans -- losing your team this way, and so suddenly, really sucks). It seems that they will be the "Utah [Name TBD]" in their new digs. I'll make that particular update to the quizzes once we have their official team name, and after July 1st, when the 2024-25 season formally begins.

[photo of Juuse Saros by Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports (https://thehockeynews.com/news/juuse-saros-faces-an-uncertain-off-season-with-the-nashville-predators)]

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Franz Rösel von Rosenhoff - A rabbit in a landscape eating an alchemilla leaf, 1669.

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Study of a Hare in Winter. 1922. Clarence Alphonse Gagnon. Art Gallery of Ontario.

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HE’S SO PUFFY!

Hare in Winter Landscape (1910) by Nils Tirén (1885-1935, Swedish)

Via Wikimedia Commons

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There's an eight-minute Sporcle quiz for naming every Leverage episode

I only got 59/77 and I'm so ashamed because most of the ones I missed are my very favorite episodes...

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Description (copied from Wikimedia Commons): he Triumph of Death, or The 3 Fates. Flemish tapestry (probably Brussels, ca. 1510-1520). Victoria and Albert Museum, London. The three fates, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, who spin, draw out and cut the thread of Life, represent Death in this tapestry, as they triumph over the fallen body of Chastity. This is the third subject in Petrarch's poem The Triumphs. First, Love triumphs; then Love is overcome by Chastity, Chastity by Death, Death by Fame, Fame by Time and Time by Eternity.

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Continuing our tour through my Sporcle quizzes of 2023! This is the second of two quizzes made in August.

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New quiz!

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The Sirens, 1892 by John Longstaff (Australian, 1861–1941)

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Only recently was introduced to the music of The Monks, and I've been making up for lost time a bit! Surely one of the oddest, most intriguing bands of the 1960s, which certainly had no shortage of odd-but-intriguing music to begin with.

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New quiz! This one's poetic.

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About a year ago I moved into a house that features two border collies and a pomchi, and this video is much more relatable for me than it have been before that. The pomchi gets herded, quite a lot (he's a trooper though, and loves the collies very much despite their collie-ish ways)!