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  • shadesofmauve:

    writingcyan:

    willowenna:

    microbewrangler:

    quasi-normalcy:

    knightfrog1248:

    black–lamb:

    I know it’s illegal but whenever I get antibiotics from the doctor I save a few and give them to friends or coworkers who don’t have insurance so that when cold season comes they might be able to shorten their illness

    That is not good- that’s not quite how antibiotics work.

    Antibiotics kill some bacteria, but don’t manage to kill other bacteria. Just like when you get a particular sickness (or a vaccination), your body can protect you from future infections, any bacteria that came into contact with the antibiotic is protected from future doses of that antibiotic. Bacteria are very virulent breeders, so they spawn more resistant bacteria.

    If you take the full dose of antibiotics, your natural antibodies can deal with the cells that are resistant while the medicine kills off the bacteria that isn’t resistant. If you don’t take the full course of antibiotics, then your body has to deal with both the resistant and the non-resistant strains of bacteria, and it can become overwhelming. Also, most bacteria are able to pass on genes between still-living cells, so that previously non-resistant strains become resistant, and you have inadvertently cultivated a stronger strain of bacteria.

    Furthermore, colds and the flu are viral infections, so antibiotics don’t work against them anyway. The best protection against viral infections are vaccinations, as there are not many viruses that we have developed anti-viral medication against, once you already have the disease. If there are anti-viral medications, it is even more important that you take the full dose of the medication, because anti-viral medication is even harsher against the body than antibacterial medication is.

    How antibiotics work

    How antiviral medication works

    Spread this around; antibiotics are not candy

    Yeah, not how it works at all. I get your intent there with health care access, but that’s literally worse than not taking any antibiotics for your friends, on pretty much every level.

    Sharing is not caring when it comes to medication
    It is risking the health of everyone involved

    Doing this – not taking your full course of antibiotics, taking antibiotics for illnesses like the common cold that are immune to antibiotics – is why there are now super-resistant strains of bacteria with no known treatment. We’re basically back to the Middle Ages of watching the patient and hoping for the best.

    I know this is an ill-heard sentiment on tumblr, but please, please, please do what your doctor tells you! I know there are a small percentage of doctors who are bad, but trust me, most of us are trying to help you and save your life.

    SUPER RESISTANT BACTERIA KILLS PEOPLE.

    When you don’t take your full antibiotic course, YOU HELP MAKE THOSE STRAINS.

    And then they come to hospital, and I helplessly watch them die. So don’t do that.

    Hence the free lecture* that comes with every course of antibiotics that I hand out.

    * Part of the ever popular lecture series that includes: ‘don’t be an idiot’ and ‘you appear confused about the word “emergency”’.

  • Lakota chef is ‘helping bring a Native American food culture into the modern world’

    Lakota chef is ‘helping bring a Native American food culture into the modern world’

    vastderp:

    beyondvictoriana:

    Before there was fry bread, there were sage, white pine, chokecherries and wild buffalo.

    Before Europeans unloaded wheat and sugar cane and introduced beef to Turtle Island, Natives hunted and fished. They planted potatoes, squash and corn, and they flavored their food with purslane, rose hips and dandelion.

    That traditional diet, or what Chef Sean Sherman calls the “pre-colonization diet,” is the bedrock for a new restaurant set to open this fall in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. Sherman, who is Oglala Lakota, plans to use only indigenous foods in the restaurant, which he has appropriately named The Sioux Chef.

    “I’m not using any European ingredients,” he said. “Everyone knows what meat was here, but I was interested in the other things—how they dried corn and squash; how they ground things into flour; and all the beans, berries, wildflowers and tree fruits. There are plenty of flavors to play with.”

    This sounds pretty awesome. 

  • Life Insurance applications lead to morbid work discussions

    shadesofmauve:

    First, N explained how I really should care more about beneficiaries and will refinements, because what if I wasn’t happy with what E did with money when I kicked it? I said E would go buy another musical instrument, and that was fine. I know my sweety. She said I wasn’t thinking hard enough, and needed to plan to haunt him and my dad so I could influence the ‘replacement me’ for the band.

    Now it’s moved on to discussing burial practices (US funerals/burials often come to $10,000! We bury people in caskets of steel. WTF.) I was totally a fan of natural burial anyway (if you can’t do that, burn me, but seriously? Meat is made to decompose), but this cements it. So I looked it all up (my search history due to work conversations is WEIRD) and it turns out cardboard and wicker are popular for natural burials, and now I care.

    BURY ME IN CARDBOARD, JUST LIKE I’VE BURIED THE WEEDS IN MY YARD. MULCH ME GOOD.

    If only I’d kept the lawnmower box, I’d already have cardboard I know I can fit in!

    We’re very well adjusted at work.

    Did you see this: http://www.urbandeathproject.org/

    That’s my plan for death, so long as they get and finish it. Just in case I’m not useful enough during my life, I damn well will be afterwards. ;)

  • Despite bad news today, a general lack of progress, and feeling pretty down on the universe, today we commenced packing / repacking (some stuff was packed but now needs to be transitioned into the proper boxes). on Flickr.

    Despite bad news today, a general lack of progress, and feeling pretty down on the universe, today we commenced packing / repacking (some stuff was packed but now needs to be transitioned into the proper boxes).

  • mxcleod:

    Totally the biggest controversy that has erver graced american politics ladies and gentlemen.

  • Lawsuit: homophobic Hawaii cop arrested women for kissing in public

    Lawsuit: homophobic Hawaii cop arrested women for kissing in public

    *sigh*

  • meladoodle:

    poppypicklesticks:

    meladoodle:

    i love how many men clearly hate women being successful. i love making men feel uncomfortable because i’m living my life and doing things better than them.

    You’re a slightly below mediocre artist that no one has ever heard of 

    I don’t think you’ve ever made anyone uncomfortable, sweetheart.  Do you even have a single colour in your palette that doesn’t look like it was mixed with pond water? 

    im so confused i dont even do art. this is the funniest insult ive ever gotten. THEY INSULTED MY PALETTE. i love this

  • ewilloughby:

    After months of eager waiting I can finally share this… meet Dakotaraptor, the giant dromaeosaur from Hell Creek! This is the first giant raptor known from this formation, and—more significantly, in my view—the first giant raptor with robust, obvious, unmistakable quill knobs. At over 16 feet in length, this magnificent fellow was in the upper size range for Utahraptor, though very differently proportioned: where Utahraptor is stout and muscular, Dakota was lanky and lithe, like a scaled-up Deinonychus. Here I’ve shown it alongside the early shorebird Cimolopteryx for scale.

    This is the first of two major illustrations I’ve done for the study. Don’t want to overwhelm everyone at once, so I’ll hold off on the other for a day or so.

    Read the paper here!

    Now excuse me while I climb to the top of a mountain and shout to the heavens… yes, we now have proof that large dromaeosaurs were feathered. Deal with it.

  • dduane:

    sapphirefiber:

    petermorwood:

    Even though our first cat door had a noisy electromagnetic lock that ran off the mains via transformer (I tell you, dinosaurs still walked the earth back in the mid-80s) Kasha and Lilith mastered the concept not only of cat doors but collar-keyed locking cat doors with unsettling speed.

    They also mastered what would happen to the tomcat three doors down (it was because of him we needed a locking cat door in the first place) when they got him to chase them…

    It reached the stage where we could tell the process of the chasing by sound alone. From the distance: mrrrOOOAAWrrr. (beat) From the kitchen: Chik-clack. Chik-clack. (beat) CLUNK.

    The tomcat never learned, and it reached the stage (seen at least four times by one, other or both of us) where they would zip inside then turn around and watch the impact happen. Finally he just gave up and ignored them, though his nose looked a bit…Persian…by then.

    Cats do have a sense of humour. Just not a very nice one. And schadenfreude is one of their favourite concepts…

    Pardon me, I’m just going to wail with laughter over here for a few minutes. 

    All entirely true. We started to feel like we were living in a Warner Bros. cartoon. One of the late 50s ones…

  • shadesofmauve:

    …it’s a graphic standards manual joke. I had to reblog it.

    …as an ex-tech writer, I’m also obliged to reblog it. ;)