Dr. SkySkull: Thinking again of Douglas Adams: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Thinking again of Douglas Adams: “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Most Americans don’t think about measles because vaccination had largely eliminated the scourge from the U.S. in 2000. But many Americans who survived measles as children never forgot how sick they were. These are some of their stories.

Isolation, extreme fatigue, lingering misery: What it’s like to survive measleswww.washingtonpost.com Measles is back, after vaccination largely eliminated it from the United States. Survivors describe having one of the most contagious diseases on Earth.

My favorite Douglas Adams version of that: “You live and you learn. Or, at any rate, you live.”

Hey, we still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea 💡

I heard endless tales about a sick kid giving away his baseball cards out the window that other kids’ moms then burned. And what they would be worth now!

50s moms took measles seriously

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