#medical advances

[redshift-13]

Quite a few people I know have tinnitus to some extent, including myself. Loud amps to blame? Who knows.

[subjects-of-the-king]

This article is not focused specifically on the Middle Ages, although the topic of the article is still applicable to a discussion of the medieval era. When people, both historians and those who have not studied as much history, talk about the Middle Ages, a common topic is the low life expectancy of the time period. These statistics are technically correct but can also be misleading. A life expectancy is simply an average. As this interesting article I read demonstrates, it can be greatly affected by people who die young versus those who have reached adulthood. Since far more people make it to adulthood in modern times than in earlier eras of history, the numbers show a greatly different life expectancy. However, this does not mean that there were not plenty of people who lived much longer. While most of the research that the article cites is from antiquity, I think that the same is probably true, at least to an extent, of the Middle Ages.

[inkskinned]

because sometimes there are invisible tests and invisible rules and you're just supposed to ... know the rule. someone you thought of as a friend asks you for book recommendations, so you give her a list of like 30 books, each with a brief blurb and why you like it. later, you find out she screenshotted the list and send it out to a group chat with the note: what an absolute freak can you believe this. you saw the responses: emojis where people are rolling over laughing. too much and obsessive and actually kind of creepy in the comments. you thought you'd been doing the right thing. she'd asked, right? an invisible rule: this is what happens when you get too excited.

you aren't supposed to laugh at your own jokes, so you don't, but then you're too serious. you're not supposed to be too loud, but then people say you're too quiet. you aren't supposed to get passionate about things, but then you're shy, boring. you aren't supposed to talk too much, but then people are mad when you're not good at replying.

you fold yourself into a prettier paper crane. since you never know what is "selfish" and what is "charity," you give yourself over, fully. you'd rather be empty and over-generous - you'd rather eat your own boundaries than have even one person believe that you're mean. since you don't know what the thing is that will make them hate you, you simply scrub yourself clean of any form of roughness. if you are perfect and smiling and funny, they can love you. if you are always there for them and never admit what's happening and never mention your past and never make them uncomfortable - you can make up for it. you can earn it.

don't fuck up. they're all testing you, always. they're tolerating you. whatever secret club happened, over a summer somewhere - during some activity you didn't get to attend - everyone else just... figured it out. like they got some kind of award or examination that allowed them to know how-to-be-normal. how to fit. and for the rest of your life, you've been playing catch-up. you've been trying to prove that - haha! you get it! that the joke they're telling, the people they are, the manual they got- yeah, you've totally read it.

if you can just divide yourself in two - the lovable one, and the one that is you - you can do this. you can walk the line. they can laugh and accept you. if you are always-balanced, never burdensome, a delight to have in class, champagne and glittering and never gawky or florescent or god-forbid cringe: you can get away with it.

you stare at your therapist, whom you can make jokes with, and who laughs at your jokes, because you are so fucking good at people-pleasing. you smile at her, and she asks you how you're doing, and you automatically say i'm good, thanks, how are you? while the answer swims somewhere in your little lizard brain:

how long have you been doing this now? mastering the art of your body and mind like you're piloting a puppet. has it worked? what do you mean that all you feel is... just exhausted. pick yourself up, the tightrope has no net. after all, you're cheating, somehow, but nobody seems to know you actually flunked the test. it's working!

aren't you happy yet?

[ianmelchizadek]

Cancer vaccine with minimal side effects nearing Phase 3 clinical trials

Each shot would be completely personalized to the patient.

via ABC News App

We need a better system for funding clinical trials - getting this into phase 3 trials should be/have been a national priority

[godisarepublican]

I’m not saying that rich, white conservatives created black-on-black violence with their systemic racism just so they can harvest the organs from the dead black children for use in transplants and medical research.

I’m not saying that.

There’s no motive!  Why would old, rich white people not want to die of kidney failure or heart disease? No, that’s stupid. There’s no reason why they’d want the organs from black children...

What I am saying is that we all have to fight BLM and the Antifa before they ruin a good thing. They’re too smart for us. Luckily we have all the money and control of the police and the courts.

[zachafoster]

Going To Long Term Care and Reflections on Life Since 2006

Going To Long Term Care and Reflections on Life Since 2006

Tonight is my last night in swing bed. I move to my permanent place in long term care tomorrow. My parents and my cleaning lady are emptying out my apartment today. It is a bittersweet end of one chapter in my life and the start of another. At this point in my life, I can no longer manage both my physical and mental health problems all alone anymore. I gave it an honest shot for over eighteen…

[dirtbagalien0]

autismo! ive seen a lot of ppl drawing the mercs in diff fashion styles so i tried my hand at it :-3 very proud of how this turned out

extra notes below the cut

band on heavy's shirt is iron maiden

snipers tattoo on his arm is called ta moko! its a type of maori tattoo :-D on that note, i also headcanon him as maori, which is the little black/red/white flag on his jacket. oh, and i headcanon him as a trans butch lesbian, which is why he has the trans and lesbian flag on his jacket. i have a lot of headcanons for him lol

also the band on snipers shirt is "bondage fairies", my fave punk band of all time. theyre hella underrated! the patches on his pants are "sex pistols" and "the ramones"

the band tee that scout is wearing is "bring me the horizon"

[deadsetobsessions]

Okay wait so like Ra’s makes these clones of Tim, right? Has Tim ever considered just… regrowing and reattaching his spleen? Like just the organ because growing a whole ass person even if they’re a clone of you for organ farming is morally wrong and unethetical and also like excessive. I feel like if they have enough tech for growing a whole ass human/human kryptonian or whatever they should have technology to just pop that spleen back you know?

Also like doesn’t Clark have that kryptonian medical tech or something like… tim you’ve got options other than asplenia

[ghostcrows]

i really like this gif from the wiki page for nanorobotics

[foxgirlmusk]

Affini will be like "oh no I can't possibly take a floret my desires are too MESSED UP and TWISTED I'll BREAK them if I let loose" and then their desires turn out to be light pain play and an intox fetish.

[patriamrealm]

Volo sees Arceus aspect Akari and Explodes straight up, wailing and screaming up at the uncaring heavens, man becomes an entire drama studio etc.

Pretty much yea! Goes whole "If I kill her then Arceus will see me as the better one and choose me!" completely off his rocker.

[subjects-of-the-king]

I know that this is not my first time sharing a resource related to the plague, but, if were are to discuss the Middle Ages, it seems like a relevant topic to those of us living today. Our current pandemic spans even more of the world, and the number of lives lost has been very tragic. One fortunate thing, however, is that the scientific community in modern times has a far greater understanding of pathogens and how to treat them. In the Middle Ages, knowledge of disease was limited to say the least, although some medical advances were actually made because of the Black Death. As you have probably guessed from the name of the article that I am sharing, one such advancement was the practice of quarantine. The article explains how quarantine originated. Reading it made me feel a little better about the progress doctors have made, as it was not always as easy to be under quarantine. Plus, maybe in a few more centuries pandemics will be a thing of the past.

[abybweisse]

Blood Work (p1), Elitism, transmutation, and religious fear

⚠️ long post ⚠️

So, I now have a copy of Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution, by Holly Tucker. It's a reference for Yana-san, as she mentioned it in her old tuna.be blog around the start of the blue arc.

I see in the list of important people a mention of the real Dr. Moreau, and there's a later chapter about chimeras... so I know I'll be talking about that some, over this series of posts.

It's important here, too, because when researchers were first attempting blood transfusions in the 17th century, people were terrified about receiving blood from animals, like sheep and cattle. They thought that animal blood would transmute humans into human-animal hybrids. Even in the 20th century, some white people were terrified of receiving blood from black people, because they thought the blood could effect the race of their future children or grandchildren. Nonsense, of course, but they didn't understand.

17th century blood transfusions were generally performed by taking blood from a lamb or a calf. The barbers/physicians/researchers had no clue about blood types. Jean-Baptiste Denis successfully transfused blood from a lamb into a teenage patient. Then he made several successful attempts at transfusing from a calf to a "madman". The guy later died, and Denis was blamed. Turns out some doctors who didn't want him to succeed had actually poisoned that second subject with arsenic.

It wasn't even a matter of those physicians wanting his experiments to fail while theirs worked; no, they simply didn't want blood transfusions to become a practice. They were afraid of transmutation from animal blood, and they were afraid of what animal-to-human blood transfusions would reveal about humanity -- that we are truly just animals, too. The trial against Denis ended research into blood transfusions for about 150 years.

Blood types were still unknown in the late 18th century, when a physician wanted to attempt to revive George Washington's largely exsanguinated corpse with a transfusion of lamb's blood. FYI, he died on a December 14th, just like Prince Albert. His family refused the offer only because they feared sullying his body with animal blood, and they insisted his body must be left untainted and wholly together for him to be properly received into heaven. Such was the continued lack of understanding. Yana-san might have given Undertaker the idea to use blood transfusions in conjunction with other techniques for the reanimating and revival process from the account of what that physician wanted to do to Washington.

When blood transfusion research was in full swing, in the 19th century, they were starting to piece together the idea of blood groups, but they still didn't quite know about things like universal whole blood donor and universal whole blood recipient. There was a strong elitist element to this, so they generally thought like could only be compatible with like. They also still saw non-human blood as inferior, even if it might be compatible. The best compatibility was expected between twins and then between close relatives.

I have a feeling that Yana-san has played around with this bias, which would explain why real Ciel is only receiving AB (Sirius) blood, Canopus B, Vega O, and Polaris A. All those people at Sphere Music Hall are led to believe they are being treated as equals, when they are in fact being split up into a caste system where some "stars" are of a higher magnitude than others. And, at times, Blavat Sky and others have made it clear they see some blood types as being less worthy than others. By extension, some people are treated as less worthy. Blavat seems to realize that Sirius can receive blood from other blood types, because he gives "leftovers" of Vega and Polaris blood to the Sirius renal patients. It's possible that real Ciel doesn't know he can have any type of whole blood, but I suspect he knows and simply doesn't think anything else is good enough for him.

I'd also like to mention Snake and Finny here, since we know Finny was injected with something to increase his strength and other traits. Then we see Snake with various attributes that are associated with snakes. In either case (or both) we could be dealing with transmutation. It's not realistic in our world, but it might very well be possible in theirs. Each of them might have been injected with chemical cocktails derived from other animals: Snake from snakes and Finny from perhaps a few completely different species.

We now know Snake wasn't born a snake and turned into a human, but there's nothing to say he wasn't born human and "adulterated" with snake traits. There's also the weird story the freak show attendant claims: human mother and snake father. Maybe not an actual snake as his father but more like his mother being injected with snake blood or something... and that producing a hybrid child. Again, not what we'd consider possible, but the Kuroverse plays by different rules.

One other aspect I want to touch on in this post: Othello's and Grelle's fears regarding the very nature of human souls and existence. This is a form of religious fear, not too different from what George Washington's family feared. His family feared he wouldn't be accepted into heaven, while these two reapers fear humans might no longer even need souls, and that heaven may no longer matter to them. What would that mean for the existence of reapers, when their supposed salvation requires them to keep collecting souls?

Well, I'll probably talk about bias and fear again, as well as these other issues, but I'll stop here... for now.

[hood-ex]

So anyway do you ever think about when Dick was delirious with fever and how he also had a gunshot wound in his leg, but despite that, he limped all the way to his motorcycle and took off after his talk with Bruce?

Because like?? Why does this man always just drive off after he's been shot?? I know Bruce didn't even realize that Dick left mid-conversation, but he really just let Dick take off like that without going after him or sending anyone to check on him?? I mean, Dick was so bad that Alfred full named him and demanded that he get back in bed to rest.

Nightwing (Vol. 2) #99

Dick clearly shouldn't have been moving around let alone driving his bike. And it's like, Bruce, I know you just lost your whole family/team but please try to keep your remaining family from crashing in the street.