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The daily newspaper known as "The Chicago Evening Post" ceased publication... in 1932. The online entity by the same name showed up less than a year ago. The Wikipedia article on it is somewhat amusing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Evening_Post

I always though psychiatry combined the power of a floor wax with the delicious flavor of a dessert topping... [Unfortunately, you have to sit through a commercial to see.. "the commercial."] https://view.yahoo.com/show/saturday-night-live/clip/40020440/shimmer-floor-wax

:) Yes. of course. I'm just wondering if the two terms refer to the same thing.

@Samuel Well, they attribute it to "molecular mimicry" in this 2005 paper. Whether that explanation has fallen out of favor, I don't know. ETA: In the video directly below (well worth watching again), Mark Davis uses the term "cross reactivity" to refer to the T-cells going after both the...

I believe an example of what he is talking about would be when the bacteria that causes strep throat (S. pyogenes), left unchecked, winds up leading the T-cells to mistakenly attack the heart (valves) due to "molecular mimicry," ultimately producing rheumatic heart disease. I think this can...

:laugh: I'm sure that is an exaggeration, just like those the rumors that if you stand too close to him your twin will age faster than you do.

Fascinating stuff. It's interesting that there even is a toxin that can disable the mitochondria without killing the cell. I wonder what it's called. I've occasionally wondered if ME might not be directly caused by a pathogen, but rather by a toxin in the gut (produced by a microbe) which is...

The concept of Self-Replicating Machines has been around for a while, going at least as far back as the 1940's when the idea was fleshed out by mathematician John von Neumann. For that reason, they are sometimes referred to as "von Neumann Machines." The concept was rapidly linked to space...

More 3D printers...and that's when they take over. :jawdrop:

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I'm very sorry to hear that @Alvin. I just passed my 35th anniversary of onset. It was at its worst in the first decade but it has gradually improved since then. Your illness may go back even farther than that, but I know that I have never seen a period of greater hope than right now. It may...

I used the most advanced tools I could find... a 12 page print out and a fluorescent pink hi-lighter. :) It took a while, but all I did was hi-light all the names that could possibly be male, because they would most likely be far fewer in number than the female group. I then counted the unisex...

FWIW, I looked at the first names of about 650 sequential US signatures to the letter. The genders of the first names were: FEMALE...79.19% MALE......18.40% UNISEX...02.41% If you use just the male/female figures (likewise if you add the unisex names proportionally to those categories), you...

Excellent work @Robert 1973! I seem to recall that the SMC has ambitions of establishing itself in other countries, including the United States. If so, asserting that the CDC makes recommendations based on patient pressure rather than on medical evidence is a superb way to make friends and...

According to this article, Whitney studied Buddhism in India and Nepal. While there, he developed stomach pain and other GI symptoms. He came down with ME a couple of years later. I mention this because, in India, the "prayer hands" gesture is called "Namaskar Mudra," where, combined with a...

Because I could not find it under "CA - United States," I thought my signature had been omitted, too. However, I found it among those on pages 90-100 (pages 65-75 in Abode Acrobat), which is where they listed the US signatories who did not provide their state or zip code. Of course, this would...

This interests me, too. A doctor once told me that my constant dizziness, which didn't seem related to OI, might be caused by constriction of the tiny blood vessels in the inner ear. It seems plausible that "stiff" blood cells might produce the same effect by a different mechanism. I wonder...

How big was that fabulous donation, again? :thumbup:

Howard Bloom's Wikipedia page says: By coincidence, Styx front man Dennis DeYoung would go on to develop what his Wikipedia page calls "a chronic fatigue syndrome-like disorder" in 1999.

The sleeping in 4-hour chunks thing is actually pretty common... on naval vessels. Smaller vessels don't have enough officers and crew to support more than two sections of watch. Two section watch is basically "four hours on" and "four hours off," so, to get 8 hours sleep, you have to break it...