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Be Still My Heart
Photo by hopefilmphoto from Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on August 17, 2021. Dating back to 1733, not long after the invention of the “Physician’s Pulse Watch”, a time device that had a second hand that could be stopped, it has…
The COVID Abides
Photo by CDC from Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on August 10, 2021. Masks are back and cases are up as everyone’s favorite Coronavirus makes a truly Olympic effort to ruin the rest of summer. Here in Humboldt County, we’re seeing…
Standing up to Peripheral Neuropathy
Photo by Anupam Mahapatra on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on August 3, 2021 As many as 20 million Americans suffer from some form of peripheral neuropathy. This condition, which can give rise to numbness, tingling, and/or mild to…
Running from the Numbers
Photo by AllGo from Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on July 27, 2021 It’s been over a month since California eased up on COVID-19-related restrictions, ushering in a festivity of media speculation and statistical acrobatics as some numbers go up and…
You Can’t Touch This
Photo by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on July 20, 2021 We arrive finally at the last of the five human senses: touch. Last in our series, but likely the first sense to develop in human…
The Future of mRNA Vaccines
Photo by Spencer Davis on Unsplash Posted in the Humboldt Independent on July 13, 2021 While COVID-19 continues to mutate through the Greek alphabet (I think we’re up to the epsilon variant by now), it seems safe to say that…
The Delta Variant
Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on July 6, 2021 The so-called delta variant of COVID-19 has been making headlines for the past few weeks, and with good reason. Potentially twice as infectious as…
A Matter of Taste
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Published in the Humboldt Independent on June 29, 2021 We have previously covered sight, hearing, and smell, and now arrive at taste on our odyssey through the suite of human senses. To most of us, taste is…
The Unmasking
Image by 마스크맨 from Pixabay Published in the Humboldt Independent on June 22, 2021 As of June 15th, California has had enough. For those fortunate enough to have been fully vaccinated, masks are no longer required in public spaces. COVID-related restrictions on businesses…
The Nose Knows
Photo by Casey Murphy on Unsplash Published in the Humboldt Independent on June 15 Moving on in our tour of the senses, we sniff out the human nose, a sense organ that gets a bad rap compared to your basset hound’s…