August 2022

End of Summer Bucket List

Can you believe it is just about the end of summer? If your kids are anything like mine, the battle cries of, “We are bored!” and “What are we doing today?” have started to fill the time between waking up and finishing my first cup of coffee.

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Medicine, Science and Culture

Omicron reset things in at least two ways. First, it had a spike protein that was immunologically very different from the previous variants. This meant that it was unaffected by most of the vaccines and antibody treatments that had been effective for previous variants, because these were directed against the spike portion of the viral particle. The immunologic changes were significant enough that even people who were healthy and had been triple-vaccinated in addition to having recovered from COVID were not immune. That’s bad.

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Rewiring your brain

Brains are so complex that it seems scientists learn something new every day. The human brain is incredible! It is able to process emotions, sensations, information, memories, and everything in between. It is like a well-oiled machine. But just as machines can malfunction, so can our brains.

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