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  • S2e31 Wash your hands if you’re in Wash(ington) state (and frankly, everywhere)
    Meg chats a state of emergency in Washington due to a measles outbreak, a Tyco Foods recall, and the navy’s first all female flyover.
    Sources:
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/health/washington-state-measles-state-of-emergency/index.html
    https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/measles/symptoms-causes/syc-20374857
    https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/health/panko-chicken-nugget-recall/index.html
    https://news.usni.org/2019/01/30/navy-honor-first-female-fighter-pilot-female-piloted-flyover-funeral
    4 min
  • s2e29 A Lot of Americans are Dying for a Stupid Reason

    Sources:

    https://news.gallup.com/poll/246134/uninsured-rate-rises-four-year-high.aspx

    https://www.vox.com/2019/1/23/18194228/trump-uninsured-rate-obamacare-medicaid

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/upshot/buying-short-term-health-insurance-what-to-know.html

    https://www.kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/individual-insurance-market-performance-in-2017/

    https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/1867050/changes-mortality-after-massachusetts-health-care-reform-quasi-experimental-study

    https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_05.pdf

    Cat Tax

    10 min
  • s2e25 Early Bird CRITICAL ERROR: CORRUPT BOOT SECTOR
    Luke loudly laments the loss of his latest laptop. Well, okay, it was his desktop, but that would’ve killed the alliterative flow, you pedantic philistine >:(
    Oh, and he talks about gene editing and stuff.
    Sources:
    (Roughly; this one was a bit off-the-cuff… You know, computer troubles. We’ve been over this. Gosh.)
    https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-disk-partitioning-for-linux-and-windows-dual-booting/
    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46943593
    http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/spring04/warfare.cfm
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)
    5 min
  • s2e24 Drink Coffee!
    Dark roast coffee has been shown to decrease DNA damage compared to non-coffee drinkers, and time restricted fasting has been shown to be a means to decrease body weight & systolic blood pressure.
    Sources:
    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00394-018-1863-2
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6004924/
    4 min

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