You think you are done with it, because a large part of the population has been vaccinated, but then the corona virus flares up again. It has happened to a number of countries, including Uruguay, Chile and the Seychelles. De Volkskrant cites three reasons for this, from which we can also draw our lessons here. … Read more
The Havana syndrome has been causing problems around US embassies for the past five years. At least 130 people are now dealing with the consequences of the mysterious disease. It concerns sixty cases in China and Cuba and another 70 patients in Europe and Asia. The disease first showed up among US embassy personnel in … Read more
In the US, children as young as 12 years old can receive a corona vaccine. In the Netherlands, this is still very reluctant to respond, while there are plenty of reasons to give children an injection. Children may become less ill from the coronavirus, but they can keep the pandemic going by spreading the virus … Read more
Kendall Jenner has launched a new YouTube series on mental health. The top model, who previously announced that she regularly suffers from panic attacks, makes the series for the American fashion magazine Vogue. In the series, titled Open Minded, 25-year-old Jenner talks to various experts to better understand what exactly her panic attacks are. In … Read more
You only have to be exposed to air pollution for a few weeks or your cognitive performance will deteriorate. This is shown by a study by Columbia University. However, it appears that aspirin counteracts the harmful effects. Examples of brief exposure to air pollution are forest fires, smog, passive smoking or barbecuing. The researchers looked … Read more
The famous / infamous nursery rhyme Baby Shark is the most viewed video on YouTube with over 8.4 billion views. Ryan Reynolds’ 1-year-old daughter has also often seen the cheerfully annoying song about the little shark and his family. Too often it turns out, because father Ryan can no longer take it. However, the actor … Read more
Last year, a few studies appeared that claimed that smokers have no additional risk of becoming seriously ill from the coronavirus and that they would become infected less often. At least one of those studies has now been withdrawn due to ties to the tobacco industry. In that study, scientists stated that smokers were 23 … Read more
More than 362,000 people have now died of the corona virus in Brazil. This makes it the worst hit country in the world after the US. Yesterday, 3,459 people died in one day from Covid-19. These are not only the elderly. A total of 1,300 babies have also died, writes BBC News. Many children who … Read more
The vaccination could become a race against time. After all, at any moment a corona mutant could emerge that outsmarts the vaccines. In Israel, it has already been established that the South African variant is better able to ‘break through the defense of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine’ than other forms of the virus. One … Read more
American sociologist Elizabeth Bruch examined data from a dating site to map out how people choose a partner. Her conclusion: algorithms are ultimately better able to find a suitable partner than we ourselves. The condition is that sufficient variables have been included. But if that is the case, the chances of finding a suitable partner … Read more