Most online rhyming dictionaries are pretty garbage. These two aren’t too bad:
My favorite test word is ‘spaghetti’ – something a Snapple bottle cap said has no rhyming words. They’re wrong. See if you can think of a few first yourself. 🙂
Lets just get this out of the way. This is not a scholarly article. This is not medical advice, nor should it be taken as such. The internet is probably the worst place to diagnose or get information about health matters. You should always go FIRST to your doctor for medical advice and care. What this is, instead, is information about some accredited medical research and programs that might be helpful to those suffering from Long COVID. Research programs you can bring up with your doctor and see if it might be a good option.
While many infected by COVID-19 recover without seeming issue – Long Covid is something that’s increasingly being recognized as affecting a lot of people. The condition has been hard to understand because it usually consists of a whole host of strange symptoms: chest pains, tiredness, brain fog, migraines, etc. These symptoms last for months and often change for unknown reasons.
For those suffering from Long COVID – there is some hope. Congress recently approved $1.15 billion over 4 years for the NIH to research the long term consequences of COVID infection. Across the country, various research hospitals are opening long COVID centers and they are starting to get a little traction.
What they are finding so far is that the strange symptoms list also matches up with something some doctors already know about: dysautonomia. Dysautonomia is a group of possible medical conditions that are caused by problems with the autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system controls a whole host of involuntary body functions like your heartbeat, breathing, digestion, and so forth. While this is all in early stages and may not be the root cause, there is some interesting research going on. John Hopkins is starting to call what they are researching POTS – postural osrthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Other centers are in various stages of setting up, taking patients, or even in active research.
If you are suffering from Long COVID, I would urge you to contact some of these new long COVID research centers and hopefully you can find some help – and help researchers and others by sharing your battle with Long COVID.
Pretty awesome!
Some really cool ideas and projects at the Tokyo Maker Fair to get your creative juices flowing!
Scratching with Barcode Scanners at the Maker Faire Tokyo 2020
I think anyone with kids has had the experience this momma bear is having.
Even more fun is the fact a person from the other side caught the same scene
DCS World is one of the most amazing flight simulators out there. The hyper reality and complexity of just getting your plane off the ground is well known. Modders and modelers sell hyper-realistic models for the game like the F/A-18C Hornet shown here. In the high-fidelity cockpits, literally every button/switch/knob is clickable. It’s not just for show either – people claim they can start up the real planes by learning it first in DCS.
One user has cleverly combined some augmented reality in their setup.
If you like this, you can check out some of the amazing fun folks have in this game. Check out the Youtube channel for the Grim Reapers. They have interesting, and often hilarious, skill competitions – like their AAA/SAM evasion canyon run.
Much like the moving pictures in Harry Potter, MyHeritage is bringing photos of departed ancestors back to life via some clever use of AI based animation technology called “Deep Nostalgia”.
Edward Munch is most famous for his painting ‘The Scream’. He was a tortured soul by his own admission, and would struggle with alcoholism and mental illness later in life. He once wrote, “Illness, insanity, and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradle and accompanied me all my life.” His most famous painting, The Scream, has inspired countless depictions of pain—including the famous Scream mask.
Etched into the paint of one of the most famous paintings in the world, a haunting eight-word sentence has been a mystery to art historians for over a century. The sentence reads, “Can only have been painted by a madman.” The mysterious statement—clearly added sometime after the painting’s debut in 1893—was long thought to be added either by a disgruntled onlooker or perhaps the artist himself.
The century-old debate has finally been settled by modern technology. Using infrared photography to compare handwriting to Munch’s letters and journals, experts at the National Museum of Norway claim the words are in fact the artist’s own. Read more about the discovery here.
Star Trek’s episode ‘Balance of Terror‘ is consistently rated in the top 5 episodes by many reviewers. In the episode, the Enterprise engages in a cat-and-mouse battle with a Romulan ship after it investigates an unidentified assailant destroying Federation’s outposts at the Neutral Zone. We are introduced to the Romulans – a race that fought a bloody war with the federation and have been silent for almost 500 years. This rich episode not only introduces us to their cloaking device, new photon torpedo graphics (still called phasers because photons weren’t invented in the series yet), but also the ugly topic of xenophobia when we get our first view of them.
I always thought the episode was a strangely rich story for Star Trek; so it wasn’t a complete shock to find out the plot is heavily lifted from the 1959 movie “The Enemy Below”. That movie is about a US ship playing cat-and-mouse with a German sub. The parallels between the two are worth a write-up in itself, but you can give it a watch yourself as it’s on Youtube: