I work at an airport and I want to be able to help people who can’t understand English very well, with whatever problems they have without having to refer to Google translate/dictionary. I at least want to be fluent in Spanish and French. Practicing is hard when you don’t have anyone to practice with when everyone around you speaks English only.
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YSK If you’re bitten by a tick, keep the tick in a bag in your freezer. If you ever suspect that you have the symptoms of lyme disease, you can get the tick tested and get antibiotics. Early treatment does cure the otherwise incurable disease.
Bay Area Lyme Foundation today announced that the Foundation is the first to offer free tick testing for residents of the U.S. Testing is available through a partnership with Nate Nieto, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University and his lab. Bay Area Lyme Foundation hopes to use this crowd-sourced data as a vehicle for gaining a greater understanding of the geography of tick-borne diseases in the U.S. If successful in accumulating data, it will be the first crowd-sourced study of its kind.
Simple tick removal tool
ELI5: How does carbonation aid with an upset stomach?
TIL 1 in 5 organ donations comes from the victim of a vehicular accident, and self-driving cars may end up exacerbating the shortage.
Self-Driving Cars Will Make Organ Shortages Even Worse
We need to prepare for that now.
ELI5: What is falsetto, and how is it different from normal singing?
Are their specifics on when high-pitched singing becomes falsetto?