LindyScience
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@LindyScience
Remove your computer and your room looks stuck in the 1970s
Boiled potato peels seem to outperform standard gauze dressings for successful burn wound recovery Potato peels themselves have "no intrinsic antibacterial activity"
"We saved the patient's hand from amputation via sewing it to his abdomen"
Oil deposits are linked to the origin of tornados Look for where tornadoes occur frequently and you'll find black gold
Many say human limb regeneration is not possible, but there are several cases of human fingertip regeneration in children! There's a dividing line between where you either have perfect restoration or none at all. Takes ~3 months for everything to grow back. @LandsharkRides
If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for Being.
New feature story in @TheAtlantic by me: I've known Michel Goldman for years and never imagined I'd write this story. As he faces his cancer and the mystery around it, he's sharing a COVID twist... while trying not to undermine his message on vaccines: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Jade changes color the longer you wear it - (Some) Chinese
Jade changes color the longer you wear it - (Some) Chinese
Certain kind of geriatric millennial culture I hate. Bernie socialism, beard oils, axe throwing, brewpubs, whiskey and beer aficionados, retro gaming, Joss Whedon dialogue irl, Chuck Wendig-esque use of profanity. Hate it. No idea what its called. I call it “soylennial”
Thinking how seizures can fluctuate in frequency or severity across a woman's menstrual cycle (catamenial epilepsy) Supposed to correlate with estradiol and progesterone levels
I’m extremely skeptical that a Russian opposition faction killed him. Dugin is not an important person in Russian politics, very simply, but he’s a figure that Ukraine has fixated on for years. straight up, Ukrainians have very strong opinions about Dugin, most Russians do not.
Had it not been discovered by the French shortly after their arrival in 1799, the Rosetta Stone would still today be part of an unknown back-alley wall in a random Egyptian flea market. The entire hieroglyphic language would be unreadable; we would know nothing of ancient Egypt.
