By Anne Cacherell Bubonic plague is a bacterial infection circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents. If not treated immediately, it could kill the infected individual within 4 days. Bubonic Plague is believed to be the cause of Black Death that took Europe by storm in the 14th century and killed an estimated 25 million…
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“I Want to Live,” were Almost This Guy’s Last Words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5BbxnVfS4M By Richard K. Noots Will Lautzenheiser went to the hospital for what he thought was just a pulled muscle. He soon founded out he would be without his arms and a leg. As he stared at what he thought would be the end of his life, he decided that living was the most important…
How One Man’s Selfless Fight Against Ebola Will Give You a New Perspective on Altruism
By Richard K. Noots Two things you need to know about Ebola. #1: If you’re in the USA, you don’t need to worry about it. #2: Africa is an absolutely gigantic continent. It could fit about three USAs in it, no problem. Ebola is currently creating an epidemic in five countries in Africa. These are…
You Don’t Need Eyes for a Roadtrip … Just Heart
By Richard K. Noots Two brothers suffering from a degenerative eye disease known as Choroideremia named Justin and Tod Purvis have decided to take life by the proverbial horns. Their mutually shared disease began during childhood, and it slowly makes the sufferer blind as they grow into adulthood. Not wanting to miss out on the…
Don’t Get Sick! 5 Ways To Defend Yourself Against Various Plagues this Cold Season
Image by: Lain Farrel By: Todd Downey Isn’t it incredible that in our relatively short existence as a distinguishable race we’ve been able to build rocket ships and travel to the moon, use wireless hand held devices that allow us to converse with each other across the world, and build skyscrapers that are hundreds of…
5 Things that We’ve Learned from the Ice Bucket Challenge
Image by: PublicDomainPictures By Robert Spencer It’s blowing up our newsfeeds. Seriously. Everyone is dumping buckets of ice water over their heads: celebrities, athletes, your next door neighbors, your fifth grade English teachers, etc. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has been met with both criticism and praise. Donations (and ice water) have been flooding ALS…
