Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Auto-Immune Disease and the Black Death

There may be some link between the two.

The Black Death apparently had an evolutionary impact on Europeans, in that survivors tended to have a more active immune system, one that more aggressively combated invading bugs.

I don't know how they're going to tease out whether or not the descendants of the survivors of the Black Death are more susceptible to some autoimmune diseases than descendants of populations where the Black Death didn't run rampant. There are a heck of a lot of possible causes for those diseases, all of which will have to be accounted for.

It'll be an interesting line of research, though.

(H/T)

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