Blunting The Force Of Disease Is Complicated COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease. But their efficacy in lab-controlled trials may not exactly correlate to how well they work in the real world. David Kaslow, chief scientific officer at the global public health nonprofit PATH, explains that a factor known as the “force of infection” plays a role in determining how well vaccines work. The force of infection describes the attack rate of a pathogen—the amount of time it takes a susceptible individual to get infected in a given population. In a study recently published in the academic journal NPJ Vaccines, Kaslow and his colleagues found that in vaccine trials for rotavirus and malaria in Africa, efficacy could vary widely between...
"An armed society is a polite society" - or is it?In Heinlein's many Sci-Fi books he advances a lot of ideas that Libertarians seem to like - including a deep distrust of authority figures and a perverse desire to kill the police. Time was, we called that mental illness.The characters in his books are always well-armed with various knives, swords, guns, blasters, rifles, and other nasty little things designed exclusively to kill human beings. His novels are rather bloodthirsty, as the "bad guys" usually get mowed down, one way or another. In some of his lesser and later works, he depicts a future world where "Proctors" (the Police) are the enforcement arm of a strong despised government. In more than...
I’ve probably told you this before, but stocking stuffers are my very favorite thing to shop for. I love shopping for gifts in general, but there’s something so fun about finding cute little trinkets, toys, and gadgets to tuck into a stocking. Every year, Corey and I go just a little overboard on stockings for the kids and have to either set some aside for another gift-giving holiday like Easter or simply spread the rest of the loot out on the floor underneath the stockings. We have a problem, but we’ve learned to accept it. This year, I’m sharing stocking stuffer ideas for both the kids and the adults because, I don’t know how you do it, but in our...
Inspired toy gifts for every kid on your list from tots to grade school.Welcome to our final gift guide! We are bringing you a Gift Guide chock full of toys for All ages, some classic, some making their debut--all of them in our top-ten! We love that you've been following along and shopping from each of our curated guides. We hope to help bring you a clickable holiday gift guide that has the top gifts of the season for everyone on your holiday gift list.This gift guide features some of our top picks of toys and goodies that really work for all ages. They also make great gifts for the whole family. MEL Science: Learning really can be fun, it's all about...
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