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Unless you have access to coca leaves, your recipe is likely to taste like generic cola. Coca-Cola has special privileges to import raw coca leaves. They extract the cocaine (which…

I'm a physician- although I don't disagree with the spirit of the article the headline is exceptionally misleading. Phenylephrine is useless as an oral decongestant . It is still q…

Makes me nostalgic for pentadactyl (the IMHO superior fork of Vimperator- both of which are discontinued) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentadactyl

I am a physician in the US. I think the article has valid points (esp. inpatient glucose control) but it also oversimplifies and glosses over some of medicine's more arcane aspects…

Perspective from a US physician: Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (or PGD, what you described as 'selective IVF') is not cheap. It costs upwards of US$100,000 and no commercial o…

Here are some links to the CDC's statistics and maps on Lyme disease for those interested: https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/graphs.html https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps.html https…

Don't forget to install the plugin that actually allows you to run a web browser inside your web browser-based editor: https://atom.io/packages/browser-plus

Seems to have been patent-encumbered and largely abandoned in the commercial world, but there is a FOSS library called fiasco (.wfa files) that is included with netpbm, available o…

You would probably have to ask a pharmacist, but from the clinical side I can tell you most prepared health information that we can give to patients has to be very bare bones and c…

>"Oh, is he on ?" I'll bet the farm it was lisinopril, or another ACE inhibitor. The ACEI cough is notorious enough that any 1st year medical student probably should have been able…

>ALWAYS READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN ABOUT DRUGS YOU ARE PRESCRIBED! I'm not trying to undermine your point entirely, but there is a flip side. I can't tell you how many times I have se…

Preface: I'm not trying to nitpick you to death. I wouldn't expect anyone outside the medical field to remember any of these terms. Yes, a HR of 230 BPM is not normal. The terminol…

Tachycardia is technically any heart rate greater than 100 BPM. It doesn't necessarily mean that the heart is not pumping enough. What can happen with an elevated heart rate is tha…

The paper states that depressed mood and exhaustion are a risk predictor for all-cause cardiovascular mortality comparable to hypercholesterolemia and obesity. Essentially this mea…

> In May 2015, Snowden's lawyer Ben Wizner said that Snowden's main source of income was speaking fees, which sometimes exceeded $10,000 per appearance.[308] https://en.wikipedia.o…

First off, my shell is not broken. Secondly, my post was highly simplified because obviously I'm not going to include the entirety of every single config file my shell uses. All it…

I've had similar experiences with Bing, which I used inside IE on a fresh Windows install to search for a few programs/drivers (was just to lazy to type in my own search engine). I…

From the documentation page: >A package directory is the root of a tree containing the installation image for a particular package. Each package directory must reside in a stow dir…

One of the best zsh tweaks I've done was setting ZDOTDIR="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/zsh" in `/etc/zshrc`, then moving all miscellaneous files to the same place: # ~/.config/zsh/.zshenv ex…

Just wanted to add my perspective as a US medical student-- First I would like to say that I'm sorry for your loss, and please don't take my comment as defending or justifying our …

Another thing that kind of irked me was this section: >This conspiracy among prime numbers seems, at first glance, to violate a longstanding assumption in number theory: that prime…

>AI, biotech, and energy The problems you described with these fields are known as "barriers to entry". They are bad for competition and foster lower-order market structures and/or…

Not me personally. I actually feel that unambiguous, clear monospace fonts (DejaVu, Fantasque) are easier to read in general, but I can't speak for others.

I've seen a handful of psychiatrists and psychologists who were mostly interested in figuring out if I had true ADHD, a true reading disability, some combination of the two, etc. I…