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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


What day does this air again?

Also, massive, massive props to saying that pneumococcus can cause meningitis.

(Also don't look up meningitis while you're at it. It's loving scary)

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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Skypie posted:

My 8th grade science teacher lost one of her sons to meningitis when he was only like 19 or 20. :smith:

I'm one of the lucky ones, they caught mine quick enough.

It's weird because the viral version is no worse than the flu, but the bacterial one is much worse (but also curable). I personally would like it like that if I had to choose, the viral version being uncurable but mild, bacterial nasty but curable.

Also platelets continue to be adorables.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Nine of Eight posted:

There’s also a fungal variety which is pretty nasty.

Yeah. Meningitis is more a "symptom" than an actual disease.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Amuys posted:

Sadly not parasites like malaria though.

Yup, and then you get mutations that lead to sickle cell anemia. Those who have one recessive gene are immune to malaria, but both get the shaft wholly.

Also, technically RBCs are NOT cells. They lack a nucleus. It's one of those "well we've called them that for so long... why change it" things.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Pollyanna posted:

...I should probably stop drinking so much. And start losing some weight.

How far are you from your job?

Because ride a bike

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Pollyanna posted:

Moving to a place 20min away by bike next week. Good option, though I really don’t want to deal with my ride getting stolen/breaking down...

Get a good lock (a solid u-lock is what you want), namely one with an insurance policy that if your bike gets stolen, they'll replace it. Whenever you lock your bike, capture both the frame and the rear tire with it (it's how I lock mine up: https://i.imgur.com/rom0hbP.jpg). The cables are an added bonus to discourage people from walking away with your front tire.

Also breakdowns happen on cars too. Bike breakdowns tend to be mostly flat tires, which is an easy fix with some practice. I'm currently running a tube that had a hole in it and fixed it myself. It's held up over 60 miles so far, so if I can do it, so can you :)

iospace fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Aug 3, 2018

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Nitrousoxide posted:

Also a rear rack
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DWKUAZK/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and pannier or basket
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07CJPW36N/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Or Basket
(Rear)
http://a.co/dsWqQkh

(front, can skip the rear rack if you get this)
http://a.co/3j8Sdki

to carry your backpack/briefcase to keep your back free from sweat, and also let you go grocery shopping with your bike and do other chores with it.


You can cover 95% of breakdowns with stuff that can fit in a saddlebag like this:
http://a.co/0apjeux

(Bike Toolkit)
http://a.co/8BcQ3t3

and either a really small co2 canister plus adapter for the bike valve
(can fit in the saddle bag)
http://a.co/eSIAH0g

and puncture repair kit
http://a.co/6ln5VdG

Or a small hand pump and puncture repair kit
(probably need to mount to frame, but more than 1 use)
http://a.co/0wOymGQ

You can get all of that at a local bike shop for what it's worth (do this)

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


I think the main series is more of an edutainment series. It doesn't necessarily need dynamic characters, it's primary purpose is to educate. Black, at least, seems to be more slanted towards the darker/taboo portions of the body, and seems to have the stories connected more than the main series.

iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Xelkelvos posted:

The body is extremely xenophobic to most living things that aren't from said body. The only exceptions are within the digestive organs and even then they have their own smorgasbord of defenses and defensive reactions as well as strange residents.

IMO, they missed an opportunity portraying the stomach and intestines as something other than just a food processing plant.

Bacteria at Work goes more in depth into this (it portrays the fights between good and bad germs in your digestive system) :eng101:

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iospace
Jan 19, 2038


Nine of Eight posted:

From cardiac arrest, the body has a *slim* (we're talking close to 1% for best possible outcome) chance of recovery assuming a bystander nearby knows how to do proper CPR and there's a portable defibrilator nearby. I don't have my numbers on hand but there's an under ten minute window we have to get oxygen back to the brain, with a sliding scale of positive outcome to lovely outcome depending on how fast intervention occurs. In the past twenty years we've made huge progress in saving people who'd otherwise be dead using hypothermia treatments and coronary interventions, but I don't want to spoil too much of what will probably happen.


Argh! White blood cells are centrifuged out when giving blood! my immersion!

Two things, full on cardiac arrest is pretty much fatal, but given the condition of that body, the body itself probably interpreted it as "yup, we're dead". That or I'm an idiot.

2nd: whole blood still has WBCs, double red donation does not.

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