False Facts About Pandemics That Everyone Thinks Are True
Unfortunately, there are a lot of myths about coronavirus and about disease outbreaks out there. Here are some myths about pandemics and coronavirus.
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The Real Reason Bottled Water Is Selling Out Everywhere
You've read the news, and you've seen the memes: Everyone and their mom has been busy hoarding toilet paper recently. But bottled water is also flying off shelves. Here's why.
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The Real Reason Bats Carry So Many Diseases
Forget Bruce Wayne, who carries lots of gadgets and emotional baggage. The really impressive bat-creature weighs in at less than an ounce. It's the Chinese horseshoe bat, and by some estimates, according to the New York Times, it's a possible source of the coronavirus.
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New Tests Reveal How Long The Coronavirus Can Live In The Air
At this point, lots of people are afraid of the same thing: You're walking down the street minding your own business, when suddenly, some random person coughs at you, and boom! You now have coronavirus. But is that how it would work? How long does it last in the air?
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3 Things The Coronavirus Supposedly Does Not Like
Here are some things the virus itself does not like.
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The Truth About Second Waves Of Pandemics
"Pandemics are inherently unpredictable in appearance and severity," so it's by no means guaranteed that waves will occur at all. However, both the Black Death and the 1918 flu had hellacious second waves. So why might these second waves happen?
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The Real Difference Between A Pandemic And An Epidemic
It's pretty clear that information about COVID-19 is, well, going viral. As is the virus itself. Health authorities have repeatedly requested that people do their best to stay calm, and wash their hands twenty seconds at a time. Nonetheless, a lot of people have become ill in a short time period.
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How Dangerous Is The Coronavirus For Young People?
COVID-19 is an increasingly worrisome disease for many countries. Sure, the rich might have access to private jets and other means of lowering the risk of contagion, but it looks like everybody else just has to power through and follow the World Health Organization's protective measures.
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Can You Get Coronavirus Through The Mail?
Hoping to stem the spread, organizations and individuals are taking steps to get the hell away from each other. With more postal and parcel services will play a vital role in acquiring food and other necessities and paying rent. But what happens if a package handler catches the coronavirus?
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The Biggest Differences Between The Coronavirus And The Flu Explained
With the novel coronavirus at the forefront of the public consciousness, it's only natural to try and put it into context, filing it away with other potentially deadly diseases. And no illness gets compared more frequently to coronavirus than the flu.
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What The Coronavirus Could Mean For The 2020 Flu Season
The beginning of spring typically sees a reduction in flu-like infections, but with the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe could we see a late season resurgence?
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Will The Coronavirus Outbreak Slow Down In The Spring?
What started as a local skirmish in Wuhan has now reached global status has now escalated to a point where the World Health Organization has classified the outbreak as a pandemic. Still, while we might be dealing with this particular virus for a while, surely it must die down at some point?
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Why People Think We're Living In The Matrix
The notion that we are all organic life forms existing in a universe created through natural processes may seem like an unassailable fact. But there's evidence that points to a different possibility: like Neo before he took the red pill, we might be living inside an artificial simulation.
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How Much Longer Until Chernobyl's Radiation Is Completely Gone?
On April 26th, 1986, the Ukrainian nuclear power plant at Chernobyl found itself quite unexpectedly exploding. With the irradiated area continuing to bring curious visitors from around the world, the question must be asked: how long will it take for it to shed its pesky radioactivity?
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Are Young People In Danger From The Coronavirus?
The COVID-19 coronavirus is an increasingly worrisome disease for many countries. How dangerous is the coronavirus for children, and for that matter, young people in general?
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What Does A Turtle Look Like Without Its Shell?
Some things go together like peanut butter and chocolate, like Johnny Depp and a certain level of cultural uneasiness, or turtles and their shells. Unless you're a hunter playing on easy mode, or a startling cartoon character, odds are that you've never seen a turtle outside of its shell. Why?
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Why Some People Marry Inanimate Objects
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer decried the fall of the Berlin Wall as a crime. "What they did was awful," she lamented. "They mutilated my husband."
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The Real Reason Passenger Pigeons Went Extinct
Passenger pigeons were once perhaps the most multitudinous avians on the planet, numbering as many as 5 billion in their prime. But in 1914, the last known member of the species died at 29 years old in the care of the Cincinnati Zoo. Her name was Martha. Batman would have been furious.
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Strange Magnetic Fields Around Mars Rover 10x Stronger Than Expected
If there's one thing NASA loves, it's driving golf carts around the surface of Mars. Although Elon Musk may be worried that humans won't colonize the red planet in his lifetime, NASA's InSight lander recently beamed back some unexpected findings about the red planet's magnetic fields.
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The Best Way To Survive A Shark Attack
Human beings kill approximately 100 million sharks a year, per The New York Times Magazine. On the other hand, unprovoked shark attacks killed just five human beings in 2017. So clearly the sharks have more to worry about than we do. But here's how you can survive a shark attack if it happens.
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How Sharp Are Piranha Teeth?
It's easy to picture piranhas as hungry teeth with fish attached. In fact, 'piranha' translates to "tooth fish" in the language of Brazil's Tupi people. Paired with a prominent underbite, those notorious chompers make for a menacingly serrated smile.
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CDC Has A Warning For Men Amid Coronavirus Concerns
As COVID-19 continues its tear through the general public, killing hundreds and throwing the international economy into disarray, the CDC offers new advice seemingly on a daily basis. Now they're honing on beards.
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Doctors Alter DNA For The First Time Inside Living Human
Move over Doctor Moreau, scientists at the Casey Eye Institute are honing in on your territory, only instead of creating hideous mutants they're trying to cure blindness.
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The Truth About The Student Who Just Discovered 17 New Planets
Here's the truth about Michelle Kunimoto, the University of British Columbia student who recently discovered 17 new planets with nothing but her wit, her will, and publicly available NASA internet archives.
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New Study Shows How To Slow Brain Aging
Pretty much everyone would love to live a good, long life. However, the whole "not dying until you're really old" thing is a bit of a two-edged sword: Unless your brain manages to keep up with the rest of your body, your golden years probably won't be quite as cozy as you'd hope.
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Scientists Are Using 'Tissue-Digging Nanodrills' To Kill Bacteria
Through the combined efforts of researchers at Rice University, Biola University, and the Texas A&M Health Science Center, the human race now possesses tiny, molecule-sized drills capable of destroying not just diseased cells, but entire multicellular microorganisms.
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How Deadly Is The Banana Spider To Humans?
Of the arachnids who do pose a real risk to humans few have garnered as much media attention as the Brazilian wandering spider, sometimes referred to as the banana spider.
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