October 2, 2021

People who live in brick bars should not know Stones.

Mick Jagger went to a dive bar in Charlotte and literally everybody missed him.
posted by bonefish at 6:06 PM PST - 173 comments

‘Sun-powered orgasms are fantastic’: why I went to live in a desert cave

Armed with only a solar charger, a vibrator and some marijuana gummy bears, I rode out the pandemic – and my fear of spiders – in a California commune.
posted by Ahmad Khani at 6:02 PM PST - 13 comments

“driven by a very generous motivation to try to find inexpensive cures"

Scientific American's round-up and run-down of what's up with Ivermectin. Despite what fringe physicians' groups recommend -- “twice a week for as long as [COVID] risk is elevated" -- ivermectin is usually given as a one-time dose when it is used as a parasite treatment for humans. Cases of severe poisoning and even death are on the rise. At the same time, clinical trials of Ivermectin as well as Fluvoxamine (serotonin uptake inhibitor), Metformin (glucose/insulin regulator), and Fluticasone (steroid) continue as researchers explore the possibility that drugs "known to decrease inflammatory proteins (cytokines) in the body" will treat covid. [more inside]
posted by spamandkimchi at 3:25 PM PST - 148 comments

So You Want To Go To Grad School (in the Academic Humanities)?

"Graduate school application season is upon us and so I wanted to take this as an opportunity to talk about it. Every year, I talk with undergraduate students who are considering pursuing a graduate degree in the humanities, who mostly come to me because they know that my graduate school experience was relatively more recent and so they hope I can offer some useful advice beyond what they might get from a more senior academic who attended graduate school decades ago. So this week I am going to give all of you a version of the advice I offer those students." [more inside]
posted by Carillon at 12:16 PM PST - 86 comments

Two French kings were killed by this game

A history of and my first go at MEDIEVAL TENNIS [more inside]
posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:11 AM PST - 23 comments

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