flu
Your Computer IS Infected
I don’t care if you’re using Windows, OS X or Linus – your computer is most definitely infected. The dangerous thing is that you can become infected, as well. You wouldn’t go around rubbing your fingers all over a public toilet, would you? Charles Gerba, a Microbiologist, has concluded that every toilet seat has about [...]
Can Your Touch Device Turn You Viral?
If your bestie wants to show you the latest photo of their puppy, keep your hands off of their mobile device. Look at the picture… but don’t touch the phone. Research shows that touchscreen devices harbor approximately 18% more germs than the handles of flush toilets in mens’ restrooms do. Simply touching your friend’s device [...]
How Do You Cope With the Common Cold?
Over on Lockergnome, LucaGTech wonders how you cope with the common cold. The answers are actually quite varied. You’d think that in this day and age, we’d have the medications or technologies to help us get over this annoying malady quickly. Wouldn’t it be nice to sneeze once, take a pill and be completely fine [...]
I Got Sick at Sea
When Ponzi started to feel sick earlier this week, I knew it was just a matter of time before my own throat was coated with lemon-flavored phlegm. Self-produced mucus, mind you – not hers! Oh, and “lemon-flavored” is always the hope – yet it always seems to taste like yicky-yucky. And so, as earlier reported, [...]
Fighting a Cold
It’s rainy season in Seattle (we really don’t have a winter). That, combined with having black mold in our master closet upstairs, sleeping on a makeshift bed in our family room every night, and having clothes strewn about the house is not really making “home matters” any better for Ponzi and myself. The end of [...]
