People were deliberately infected with malaria to cure their syphilis, and the man who developed this treatment Julius Wagner-Jauregg received the nobel prize for it.
(The extremely high fevers of the malaria infections killed the syphilis bacteria, then the patients were cured of the malaria using quinine.)
In a room of 23 people there’s a 50-50 chance of two people having the same birthday.
In case you are confused by this, it is the probability of any two people having the same birthday, not that someone else will share your birthday. To show this mathematically, it’s actually quite simple.
The odds that 2 people will have different birthdays is simply 364/365, or .997260. However, with 23 people in the room, there are hundreds of possible combinations for birthdays. Specifically, there are 253 possible combinations [(23*22)/2]. Therefore, the odds of no one having the same birthday as anyone else is .997260253, which is .4995. There is a 49.95% chance that no one will have the same birthday or a 50.05% chance that at least two people out of 23 will have the same birthday. All it takes is 42 people for the odds to pass 90% and 75 people for the chances to reach 99.9999%
my love language is facts. tell me about the history of vampires or archaeology you sexy bitch I love listening to you talk about when the violin was invented and niche botanical advice. give it all to me I will fall in love with you
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entering a bookstore for me is like saving my progress in this video game called life.
Sometimes you just have to stay silent because no words can explain what’s going on in your heart and mind.
Unknown
It is felt even across en eternity’s worth of time traveling the universe. It is but a desperate reach into the paralleled reflection in the mirror. A gaze observing before the act of witnessing.
Indescribable with words but understood with eyes. A mere glimpse of infinite probability, a seconds worth the lifespan of an entire galaxy. One can only be left drifting within the nebula of its cosmic graveyard. One can only dissipate in the seconds the soul evaporates, just for it to scramble into chemical compounds to make sense of what just happened.
Reality is but the measurement of a dying universe. Beyond the human psyche is tainted with speculation and ambiguity. A window into another’s mind is a false world into your own. If not for what we see with our own eyes, then what virtue exists within the significance of a belief imposed not by our own doing?
Like a conceptual snake, the values and beliefs of this world constricts around our neck from the second after birth. Swaying back and fourth these illusions of ‘importance’ are much like a collective hypnosis. Where there is sheep there will be shepherds, and so one must question to whom they follow. Otherwise the destruction of this world shall be caused by those who remain blind to see through the lies of which they live.
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(via exoticbunny10)