Normally I would post this kind of stuff on easternblot but I’m having huge problems with my host right now. Whenever I try to update the site, they block my IP and now I can’t reach my own site from house and from two major UofT libraries. I found out that I was being blocked by contacting the people where the traceroute timed out every single time. They were the people who actually own the servers, they rent out space to resellers, and they were very friendly and helpful but can’t unblock me without the reseller’s permission. I just paid for another year of hosting, too, and can’t get the money back if I can’t contact them (which I can’t!) so I’m thoroughly annoyed by all this. I’m looking for a new host, but since I’m out of town for two days I’ll leave it until I get back.
Meanwhile, I figured: why not post the pretty things I found for easternblot on Expression Patterns for a while. After all, Nature Network is free, and the tech support has a face and name and actually talks back when something is wrong. And NPG doesn’t block my IP address when I try to post. That’s another major advantage. Makes things a lot easier.
So after all that information that you didn’t care much about, here’s some more interesting – and prettier – information.
Information is Beautiful makes infographics from information they spend a long time looking up in far less accessible places. Here is the most recent ,“How Safe is the HPV Vaccine?”. It’s pretty big, so it’s in the extended entry. Click below to see the whole post (if you don’t yet)
Wow. Never mind lightning, what about ‘ignition of nightwear’?
At least that’s unlikely to happen to me.
Neither is dying from the HPV vaccine, I suppose.
Yah. Tell that to the Daily Nimbyist Bungaloid Curtain Twitcher
How is fainting different to serious fainting? I mean, either you faint, or you don’t, surely?
(I know what I’m talking about, having fainted in a classroom, a lab, a shower, a school fair, and a plane).
Maybe if it keeps happening, instead of just once?
Maybe. Or fainting in front of more people (more embarrassing, you see).
So you’ve had 4 serious faints Cath! I’ve fainted once, and it was serious (in front of numerous people in line at a ferry terminal).
Ignition of nightwear does sound horrendous.
Death by Ignition of nightwear
It must have happened more than once in order for someone to calculate the risk? Amazing!
What if you on your way to a HPV vaccination, you are dropped off at the train station by car, in the middle of a lighting storm, in a snake infested region, wearing nothing but your nightwear (you are forgetful being a scientist), and suddenly you feel the earth moving and you hear an announcement on the radio that the local dam has broken down?
Does it mean spontaneous ignition of nightwear?