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Schizophrenics do things like leave their homes and jobs - just to ride around on Greyhound buses for months on end. They just want to look out the window and see things.
And this makes me wonder if they’re really insane.
Wife wanted a fire this evening, so I got one going in the fire pit.
After the kids went inside, wife and I we listening to the owls, when she says, “Honey? Thank you.”
“For what?” I asked
Waves her hands and says, “This. Just all of this”
So, I’m taking that ‘W’
Rabies kills ~59,000 people a year globally. At that rate, the United States should lose 2,500 people a year to rabies. But the real number is fewer than 10, partly because we've spent 30 years dropping fish-flavored ravioli out of helicopters over the Appalachians.
Each one contains a rabies vaccine inside a fishmeal-coated block. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and enjoy the treat. Four to six weeks later, they carry rabies antibodies. Enough of them in one area and the virus runs out of animals to move through.
USDA Wildlife Services has been doing this this line since 1995. It runs roughly from Maine down through Alabama, and its job is to stop raccoon-variant rabies from crossing into the central US, where it has never established.
A single course of post-exposure shots runs into the thousands of dollars, and every rabid raccoon in a suburb produces a cluster of them: the kid who got scratched, the dog that tangled with it, etc. US rabies prevention costs between $245 and $510 million a year and avoids over a billion in medical spending.
Long Island is probably our best case study for this program. A $2.6 million baiting program eliminated raccoon rabies from the zone, and paid for itself in eight years on avoided shots and testing alone.
The biggest question I hear about this is: what happens if my dog finds one? And the answer: nothing bad. This vaccine has been safety-tested in over 60 species at varying doses with no adverse reactions observed, regardless of how much was given.
About 250 million doses have been distributed worldwide since 1987 with no documented deaths in wildlife or domestic animals. The most severe adverse reaction observed was upset stomach.
Btw, this is the only mathematician who has solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems.
he rejected both the Fields Medal and the $1M prize:
> be Grigori Perelman
> Russian mathematician
> 16 years old
> go to International Math Olympiad
> score 42/42
> years later…
> there’s a geometry problem called the Poincaré conjecture
> been unsolved since 1904
> generations of mathematicians fail to solve it
> Clay Institute puts a $1M prize on it
> wrestle with the problem for years
> 2002
> casually upload the solution to arXiv
> don’t even care about submitting it to a journal
> mathematicians spend years checking the solution
“fuck
he actually solved it”
> 2006
> offered the Fields Medal
> most prestigious prize in math
> refuse it
> 2010
> offered the $1,000,000 Millennium Prize
> refuse that too
“EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD THAT IF THE PROOF IS CORRECT THEN NO OTHER RECOGNITION IS NEEDED”
@GENIC0N Not that weird.
Some memories are more strongly imprinted than others.
For obvious reasons, telling you our earliest memories publicly would be a bad idea- just like how you didn't actually tell us yours.