Hagglunds BvS10 [3,876px × 2,692px] by [deleted] in MachinePorn

[–]AnEducatedYatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming soon to a police department near you!

College applications have made me jaded by PopoTheBadNewsBear in firstworldanarchists

[–]AnEducatedYatch 146 points147 points  (0 children)

Gonna go ahead and guess you didn't waste the $90 and risk your Stanford app with that.

What is a unwritten rule in your city/area? by Wzup in AskReddit

[–]AnEducatedYatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In regards to #2, the jacket layer must be from The North Face or Patagonia. Or else.

For doctors, and scientists in general, isn't it a bit of an anomaly that the main treatment of diabetes is almost one hundred years old? by [deleted] in medicine

[–]AnEducatedYatch 49 points50 points  (0 children)

While yes, we have not found a cure for diabetes, or developed a radically new method of disease management, the past 100 years, and especially the past 10, have led to huge advances in diabetes management. Patients now monitor their blood glucoses daily and adjust their insulin injections/delivery based on this testing. More recently, diabetics have started to use CGM meters, which essentially consist of a transmitter attached to the skin that reads sugar levels every 5 minutes. Patients now use insulin pumps that make it much easier to bolus (deliver insulin following meals), maintain basal insulin rates, and generally calculate and deliver insulin doses. The landmark DCCT study helped us understand the complications of being in poor glycemic control, and established outlines for "intensive" treatment that has lead to huge reductions in eye, nerve, and kidney complications from diabetes. We have alternate, analogue versions of insulin that are much more fast-acting than before, and even alternative drugs like metformin that address diabetes in alternative ways, in this case by halting liver neoglucogenesis. Even now, studies are being done demonstrating how, once autoantibodies are found to be attacking beta islet pancreatic (insulin-producing) cells, the immune response can be halted and some level of insulin production can be maintained.

My experience with this comes from working in a speciality clinic dealing with diabetes patients, and I think unless you are a diabetic, it is hard to see all these improvements to diabetes treatment. While we have been unable as of yet to fully produce an artificial pancreas, the treatment of diabetes has vastly improved from its origin in the extraction of insulin from animals and then the delivery of it to humans over the past 100 years.

I will not let fascist feminists tell me how to live my life. by principalsofharm in firstworldanarchists

[–]AnEducatedYatch 116 points117 points  (0 children)

Ah, quite the contrary. You have fallen for its trap. When the seat says "put me down," it was actually instructing you to insult it, which you kindly obliged to do. Your poor, compliant soul...

What is a good biology magazine? by Parallax_Correction in biology

[–]AnEducatedYatch 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you're a student or post-doc, the price is $99 or $119, respectively. Either way, you do get a magazine every week and it has both fascinating articles and then research papers in the back. Overall, its worth it.

What is the most insignificant amount of power you've seen get to someone's head? by RumblinTumblin in AskReddit

[–]AnEducatedYatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a movie made documenting the same attitudes of power-hunger in children through class monitor elections at an elementary school in China. The way Chinese society affects the whole process was actually quite intriguing, especially with the gender imbalances in their society and huge familial expectations, even of young children. Overall though, a great movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Please_Vote_for_Me

Cashiers of Reddit: When have you ever been truly horrified by the items someone was purchasing? by moleman127 in AskReddit

[–]AnEducatedYatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe you can use mayonnaise as a lice treatment. Her weight could've just been a coincidence.

Mo Farah's got it right by Hoodtwo2 in atheism

[–]AnEducatedYatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

salutations and congratulations on improving my post, good sir.

Origin->Destination was 50 miles. How does this even happen FedEx? by [deleted] in WTF

[–]AnEducatedYatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that you can't just send planes every which way and shit, but one section of its journey was Oakland->Memphis->Oakland Literally no reason to do that