http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/tidbits-for-hypochondriacs.html http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/tidbits-for-hypochondriacs.html#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:20:45 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=225040 you should attempt to remain at least six feet away from them. That is the distance respiratory droplets can travel through air. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/04/18/tidbits-for-hypochondriacs.html/feed 3 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/corporate-executives-indicted.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/corporate-executives-indicted.html#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:30:51 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=215922 Here's the money quote, from PCA's former president, revealed in an email recovered by the prosecution: "Shit, just ship it." ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/28/corporate-executives-indicted.html/feed 16 http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/vaccine-resistant-whooping-cou.html http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/vaccine-resistant-whooping-cou.html#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:09:06 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=212315 Last week, The New England Journal of Medicine reported on 12 cases of vaccine-resistant whooping cough in Philadelphia. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/02/11/vaccine-resistant-whooping-cou.html/feed 12 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/07/another-danger-for-astronauts.html http://boingboing.net/2013/01/07/another-danger-for-astronauts.html#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:57:24 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=204466 The result is a danger for space travelers that few of us on Earth ever think about — even though a lot of early astronauts, right up through the Apollo program, suffered severe infections in flight, or shortly after landing. Ed Yong's article for Wired UK from 2011 is a reminder that there's a lot of details that need to be worked out before humanity can become a space-faring species. We've got more worry about up there than just radiation. ]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/07/another-danger-for-astronauts.html/feed 14 http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/meet-vomiting-larry.html http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/meet-vomiting-larry.html#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:45:44 +0000 Maggie Koerth-Baker http://boingboing.net/?p=203721 Vomiting Larry is a humanoid robot designed to projectile vomit all over a lab at the Health and Safety Laboratory in Derbyshire, England. He's helping scientists learn about how diseases spread. Warning: If you read this Reuters story by Kate Kelland you will be forced to acknowledge the existence of "aerosolized vomit". (Via Microbe World)]]> http://boingboing.net/2013/01/02/meet-vomiting-larry.html/feed 15