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These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
May 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
These are VERY rough estimates, but here's life expectancy after diagnosis of type-I diabetes over the past 150 years.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
It was Banting and Best's discovery of how to isolate insulin in 1921 — not some fucking cooking class — that gave people including my daughter a new lease on life.
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Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:
April 21, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Pope Francis’s Easter message, read in St. Peter's Square a day before his death:
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It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
January 22, 2025 at 5:23 AM
It's WAY overused these days, but Tolkien nailed it. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."