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Where will summer 2025 take you? Perhaps from London to Edinburgh and back with 1500 other cyclists?
3rd to 8th August 2025: The UK's flagship long distance bicycle ride, hosting randonneurs from 50+ countries. What a challenge!
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Britain's greatest cycle challenge. Ride from London to Edinburgh and back in five days. 3-8 August 2025
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December 9, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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Exactly. Vaccines are not about "freedom of choice." Vaccines are about public health.
Someone’s reproductive health choices have zero direct impact on me. Someone’s decision to not be vaccinated against transmissible disease could kill me.
I didn’t think this could worse but then Jared Polis compared vaccine choice to reproductive rights.
November 15, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines!

This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.

A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.

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November 14, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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The face of "Resusci Annie" is based off a death mask of a woman who drowned in Paris in the 1880s. The pathologist on duty became entranced by the girl with the enigmatic half-smile, and commissioned a plaster cast made of her face. In 1955, a toymaker created the CPR doll using that mask. #histmed
November 14, 2024 at 5:52 PM