One of my fave podcasts is doing a fund raiser right now for an anti-malaria organization. They claim half the humans who’ve ever lived have died of malaria.

The most effective treatment for mosquito bites I’ve found is to use a hair dryer on the hottest setting and blowing it over the bite(s).

Hard to argue against. This felt like utter and total domination.

Never lost more than 4 games in any set throughout tournament...perhaps the most dominant grand slam ever played.

I’ve used this technique myself. The physiology of it is very interesting. Apparently, itchiness receptors and heat receptors in your skin operate very similarly. They send chemical signals through your nervous system that tell your brain when you skin is hot or itchy. If you take a super-hot (though not scalding)…

I know this tip was posted before on LH, and that it does work, but not because its denaturing any proteins. Unless you got that spoon up to 140F, which would do a lot worse than denature proteins. More likely it overloads the pain/itch receptors since histamine plays a part in both.

applying the back of a really hot spoon to the bite helps me. It denatures the proteins in the mosquito saliva and stops it itching.

How are there so many members of government who don’t know what freedom of speech means? It protects you from the government. No one else.

If you’re a white person, and you’re not a professor of linguistics giving a seminar on the history of racial epithets to postgrads, stop it. Stop it now. Whatever the situation, even in “irony” [and from your perspective without malice], you’ve radically misjudged the mood. Stop it.

It just sounds like she was raised around eccentric people and that she’s a little eccentric herself (isn’t half of Hollywood?), still love the Rebz. And if her mom called her Rebel and everyone knew her as Rebel... who really cares what’s on her birth certificate?

“...she looked unphased until...”

Ya I mean, if you asked me to pick the dude most likely to be racist after these two episodes, it would obviously be this idiot.

“Your thoughts — even medically they’re knowing now — the mind is a battlefield and that’s why I wrote that book Train Your Brain because the mind is, it’s all in the Bible.”

Verdasco is awesome. He was never a serious contender for a major, but he is always a threat to ruin somebody’s tournament. It seems like he is always just outside the seeding, so he can pop up anywhere in the draw. I think that most top seeds would rather see anyone in the 20-32 seed than face him. They can’t just…

Isn’t it weird how “pro-life” leaders work so hard to increase the abortion rate? It’s almost like their commitment to pro-life policies only extends to passing laws regulating what women can do with their bodies, and not to actually reducing the number of abortions (let alone supporting non-fetal life).

How long should a people allow a confirmed enemy of all humanity to remain in control of their country? Isn’t it a dereliction of our duty not to storm the gates, damn the consequences?

It was fascinating, no? I don’t know how she stayed with him as long as she did. I think I would have slapped him upside the face if he behaved with me the way he acted with her at times.

“I don’t care if it’s a good guy or a bad guy—I will never allow that to happen again,” Perez told reporters.

Why anyone would want to work for a man who will clearly throw you under the bus for even the slightest personal benefit is beyond me. This isn’t even a “I find this administration and their ‘beliefs’ reprehensible”, though I do, I just don’t see how associating yourself with this asshole works out for you in the…