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Coronavirus On Surfaces: It May Stick Around Longer Than You Think. -Especially This Winter. +Infographic

Filed Under: Disease

Coronavirus On Surfaces: It May Stick Around Longer Than You Think. -Especially This Winter. +Infographic
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Covid-19 On Surfaces. It Could Stick Around Awhile In Cold Weather:
One of the scariest elements of a new situation is not knowing what to do.

Virus-hunter docs bridged some of that gap by figuring out and demonstrating that coronavirus spreads through the air.

And mask-wearers everywhere are disappointed by those who refuse to wear them.

But as time goes on, researchers are finding out increasingly-frightening information that makes messy people look even more dangerous.

And part of that is related to COVID also spreading like another disease we’re afraid of…

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Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk

Filed Under: Disease

Preventing COVID-19 Infection: Actual Scientific Evidence Suggests Dietary Supplement May Reduce Your Risk
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Preventing Covid-19 Can A Supplement Really Help?:
Until a cure arrives, most of us are looking for anything we can do to stay healthy,

Because one of the scariest things a person can do is to be in the middle of a pandemic without a vaccine.

Especially given how easily the virus droplets can get to you.

So we’ve previously talked about how to prevent COVID-19 with masks & behavior,

And even social-activities that could aggravate the spread.

But other than behavioral-changes, is there anything else you can do? A Boston University team would say yes…

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Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]

Filed Under: Disease, Video

Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]


catch cold flu from cold weather blue and white frost on glassWinter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?

There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?

So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.

-Or you’ll catch a cold.

Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…

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The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.

Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.

And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.

Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…

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MythBusters Video & MIT Study: Science Finds Coughs & Sneezes Worse Than Previously Thought

Filed Under: Disease, Video

MythBusters Video & MIT Study: Science Finds Coughs & Sneezes Worse Than Previously Thought


More Than Just Manners:
So we’ve all been taught it’s good manners+hygiene to grab a hanky or an elbow.

Well now, the strangely-obsessed fluid-dynamics researchers at MIT are putting some more weight behind that.

And anyone near as strangely-obsessed might have watched the MythBusters episode on the same subject.

What both of them found might make you reconsider leaving the house between November and March ever again…

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Hot Chicks Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?

Filed Under: Disease, Family, Mind/Brain, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

<strike>Hot Chicks</strike> Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?
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It would sure explain a lot of memes.

And if Pinky ever does take over the world, he will surely be succeeded in quick Game-of-Thrones style by the Lolcats;

after they EAT HIM.

SUSPICION! CONNECTION-SEEKING! SHABBY-CLOTHING! SEX-KITTENISM! BRAIN-EROSION! AILUROPHILIA! ANXIETY! FOOLHARDINESS! HERMITAGE! INTREPITUDE! PSYCH-DISORDERS! SOUNDGARDEN LYRICS! –THE SKY IS FALLING!!!

Scientists would never like the idea that a small microbe could go so far as to…

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Cold & Flu Season Special: F***ing Magnets! [miracle] Immune Boosters, How Do They Work?!

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Cold & Flu Season Special: <strike>F***ing Magnets!</strike> [miracle] Immune Boosters, How Do They Work?!
Insane Clown Posse Miracles F***ing Magnets, How do they work


Awhile back, I had some odd thing going on.

It made me feel entirely too much like Keith Moon. Mad; mad as a hatter; mad as an Afghani outhouse rat.

I had tight muscles around the neck and jaw, was feeling flu-like and absolutely positive the major arteries in my neck had all been circulating pure, uncut, lab-grade hydraulic concrete.

So, thought I: it’s probably Lockjaw, Scarlet…

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Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Disease, News

Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day
Zosano Pharma sheet of microneedle drug delivery device


Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work,

Drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.

In the works, is a small, sometimes gel-dissolvable patch bristling with teeny-tiny needles.

The purpose: get drugs into the body that would ordinarily be administered by means originally designed as much for physical pain and psychological torture as they were for chemical-delivery…

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