If you're still awake in Ottawa and somewhere without light pollution, your phone camera on a long exposure setting might be able to pick up the northern lights.

#Ottawa #AuroraBorealis

What is the hottest temperature humans can survive? These labs are redefining the limit

The threshold for survival in heat is lower than thought. In a 2021 study, estimated a WBT survival limit of around 31 °C. Now, they estimated WBT survival limits of between 26 °C and 34 °C for young people and 21 °C to 34 °C for older people.

#GlobalWarming #Climate #HotGirlSummer #Summer #HeatWave
#ClimateChange
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02422-5

Protect yourself like a professional athlete and mask up!

Tour de France reintroduces mask mandate amid COVID-19 concerns

The Tour de France has reintroduced protective measures against COVID-19, with race organisation, media and guests now required to wear masks wherever they come into contact with riders and team staff on the race.

#Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #YallMask #MaskUp #LeTour #Cycling #TourDeFrance

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tour-de-france-reintroduces-mask-mandate-amid-covid-19-concerns/

I still marvel at being able to edit toots. It's pretty cool. Shame it doesn't seem to be universally available on the fediverse tho - I can't edit the text or alt text for pixelfed.
#Pixelfed

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

#GetBoosted #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

@aral Sending all the love and scritches! Hope he heals up fast!

'UNEXPECTED RESULT:' COVID-19 makes you miserable by draining dopamine

Given that dopamine neuron senescence is a characteristic of Parkinson’s disease, the researchers suggested monitoring individuals with long COVID for an increased risk of developing Parkinson’s-related symptoms.

#Covid19 #LongCovid #MaskUp

https://torontosun.com/health/unexpected-result-covid-19-makes-you-miserable-by-draining-dopamine

@rysiek @phire very cool! Thank you for sharing! Does the volcano have a smell from that far away? Is there a volcano smell?

I have about three more days until my #Instagram account is permanently deleted. I am not really experiencing any pangs of regret. I kept in touch with more people I had known in real life, compared to say, #Pixelfed But I really feel more spacious and relaxed in its absence despite having to move some and loose some connections there. The people who use IG or Pixelfed are not fundamentally different, but how the apps structure their interactions are. The systems we use matter.

#SocialMedia

Even after 2000 years, the stone slab still smelled of nutmeg.

Unearthed in an ancient village in southern Vietnam, the discovery, marks the earliest known example of spice processing in mainland Southeast Asia. It also suggests that visitors from India and Indonesia may have introduced their culinary traditions to the region millennia ago.

#Food #FoodHistory #Spices #SoutheastAsia #Curry #CulinaryHistory #Vietnam #India #Indonesia #Science #SpiceProcessing

https://www.science.org/content/article/curry-may-have-landed-southeast-asia-2000-years-ago

A scientific review of the world's research into long Covid carried out by a team of leading UK researchers has led them to declare the burden of the post-infection condition "so large as to be unfathomable".

The review was published in Nature, and said that if 10 percent of acute infections lead to persistent symptoms (as earlier studies have concluded could be the case), up to 400 million people could be in need of support for long Covid worldwide

#LongCovid #Covid19
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2018899512/prof-danny-altmann-the-burden-of-long-covid