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I Read A Few Interesting Articles About Fevers, Most Notably This One, That Argue Fevers Are Generally
i read a few interesting articles about fevers, most notably this one, that argue fevers are generally good. so today i’m “letting it ride.” maybe if i get back up to a high fever i’ll reconsider, but so far i haven’t crossed above 38.9C (102F).
after all, who am i to defy hundreds of millions of years of evolution? 🤔
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More Posts from Desperate-times
is anyone else randomly missing posts from their followers on the dashboard? the only way i even know is that i see posts that reference ones i don’t remember, i go to check, and sure enough, it’s another post that’s not on my dash.
i never do these PSA posts because most PSA stuff isn’t actually actionable, but, uh, this one is:
tl;dr: there are now a bunch of drugs that are really damn good at treating COVID. if you or a loved one get COVID, especially if you have extra risk factors, you should ask your health provider about them (and, if you’re in the US, you can even use this handy dandy website to see what’s in stock near you). also, consider telling people (esp. older people) about this, i guess? so that they know too?
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2022 June 26
Light Echoes from V838 Mon Image Credit: NASA, ESA, H. E. Bond (STScI)
Explanation: What caused this outburst of V838 Mon? For reasons unknown, star V838 Mon’s outer surface suddenly greatly expanded with the result that it became one of the brighter stars in the Milky Way Galaxy in early 2002. Then, just as suddenly, it shrunk and faded. A stellar flash like this had never been seen before – supernovas and novas expel matter out into space. Although the V838 Mon flash appears to expel material into space, what is seen in the featured image from the Hubble Space Telescope is actually an outwardly expanding light echo of the original flash. In a light echo, light from the flash is reflected by successively more distant surfaces in the complex array of ambient interstellar dust that already surrounded the star. V838 Mon lies about 20,000 light years away toward the constellation of the unicorn (Monoceros), while the light echo above spans about six light years in diameter.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap220626.html