Quickies
Quickies: Hallucinations, transphobia, and the Human Cell Atlas
- Hospital ward gripped by mysterious hallucinations after 5 fall ill – “This week, an emergency room in the Pacific Northwest was briefly quarantined after five people—including two police officers and a hospital worker—experienced mysterious hallucinations from an unidentified illness believed to be spread by touch.”
- The New York Times just provided a massive platform for transphobia – “This weekend, The New York Times published an opinion piece that, on its face, attempted to portray both sides of country’s debate over transgender inclusion. In doing so, it took for granted all of the false assumptions made by opponents of transgender equality, doing nothing to debunk them, and thereby reinforcing them.”
- A Google maps for the human body – “A group of scientists has taken the first important steps towards creating the Human Cell Atlas—a complete inventory of our staggeringly diverse cells.”
- Halloween costume suggestions for spiders
Featured image from the NIH NIAID Flickr
Yeah, ok.. That is definitely weird. Would suggest they get Col. Carter to try to work out how to undo the inter-dimensional viewing effect from the ancient device brought back from that unnamed desert planet in “Sight Unseen” (just finished watching Stargate SG-1, which had something like this), but.. you know, science fiction… Well, that and it was bugs, not zombies everyone that got touched by someone already effected where seeing.
Seriously though.. This is definitely very, very, strange.