Health – Page 3 – Postcards

The privilege of being clutter free

June 26, 2020 No Comments

Don’t pack too light: A few weeks into coronavirus quarantine, a reader who had cleaned out his home according to the decluttering guru Marie Kondo’s ultra-popular KonMari method emailed me to ask if I had heard from anyone else who was regretting that move. He’d been happy with the results until the country’s circumstances had abruptly changed, […]

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Big Brother Covid-19 Pandemic Government

What’s really wrong about Dom’s lockdown trip

May 27, 2020 No Comments

Fintan O’Toole nails it: So why does his odyssey during lockdown produce a whole different kind of emotion? Because it reaches into the innermost experiences of millions of people. It cuts right through to the pain of a loved one dying alone, of grandchildren growing distant, of precious human bonds being forcibly severed. It grabs […]

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Baking & Food Covid-19 Pandemic Humour

Flour

May 14, 2020May 15, 2020 No Comments

With everyone stuck at home, flour has tended to be in somewhat erratic supply since the lockdown started. Especially strong flour, which I haven’t seen in weeks. Anyway, Tesco are trying to get ahead of the demand curve with these ten kilo bags. Probably as restaurants and bakeries aren’t buying these sizes there’s a surplus. […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Health

Lockdown helps eradication battle against other diseases too

May 13, 2020 No Comments

Every cloud: Having already lasted seven weeks, the lockdown also mitigates one of the biggest challenges usually facing sexual health clinicians: it can take up to a month from potential exposure to HIV for current tests to return a definitive result. “If nobody has had sex which has put them at an HIV risk for […]

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Organisation & Planning Psychology & The Mind

Teamwork

April 29, 2020 No Comments

Interesting article about teamwork and personalities, it’s always been important but I think that the current all-remote-working situation in the IT industry has made it all the more essential: But even though teamwork is everywhere, we continue to train people — whether in education or in the workforce — for primarily individual and technical skills. […]

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Health Just for Laughs

Can we stop social distancing yet?

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 No Comments

No.

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Health Science!

Emerging Science of what Covid-19 does to a human body

April 21, 2020 No Comments

Fascinating overview of what the current state of knowledge is. It’s a rapidly changing field out there, and this is science working full-tilt in ‘all it’s messy glory’ (via kottke ): I’ve been hearing that although Covid-19’s attack begins in the lungs, it is as much a vascular disease as it is a respiratory disease […]

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Government Health Science!

It’s Working

April 10, 2020 No Comments

Forty days into the national epidemic and the word from Prof Nolan, who chairs the large group of mathematicians modelling the course of the disease, is mixed. Yes, the impact of the very disruptive restrictions embraced by the public has been profound, but no, we are not there yet – the rate the virus is spreading […]

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Health Life Society

Internet is a utility, not a luxury

March 19, 2020 No Comments

Some things we’ve learned over the last week of movement restrictions.

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Health

Act now!

March 18, 2020 No Comments

Fascinating post from kottke: Jewell explains a bit more about what we’re looking at: The graph illustrates the results of a thought experiment. It assumes constant 30 percent growth throughout the next month in an epidemic like the one in the U.S. right now, and compares the results of stopping one infection today — by […]

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Who?

Murf

The privilege of being clutter free

What’s really wrong about Dom’s lockdown trip

Flour

Lockdown helps eradication battle against other diseases too

Teamwork

Can we stop social distancing yet?

Emerging Science of what Covid-19 does to a human body

It’s Working

Internet is a utility, not a luxury

Act now!

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