(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best wellness books

I agree a lot with istara.. Bedtime for babies and young children needs to be between 6 and 8, most settling around 7pm. If the bedtime is too late, the baby will not get good sleep (big difference between a long sleep and good sleep) and will be up early early in the morning. Sleep begets sleep, as weird as it sounds. Goes for naps too- they need a lot of 'em! You'll think she's over-sleeping, but honestly... The more sleep, the less overtired, the happier the baby.

7 weeks, IMO, is a bit young to expect any kind of schedule. Babies that young change it up like every 2 days. Never to early to start a bedtime routine, but don't expect it to just put the baby out every night. However. Consistency is key- she will learn that this routine means relaxing time and eventually, in a few months, (hopefully) it'll work like a charm.

Most doctors agree that after 4 months it's perfectly fine to start sleep training. This does not have to mean the Cry It Out method at all. Don't be scared off. It just means that it's time to seriously start instilling some good sleep habits in your child. Make bed (either crib or family bed) a safe place and keep it for sleeping. Don't let her play in there, don't put her in there when you need a second to poop or whatever. Use a pack n play or a bouncer or something for that instead.

Do as much cuddle time as you want in the bedtime routine- but try to put her down when she's still partially awake, but very sleepy. She will better learn to self-soothe and to put herself back to sleep on her own when she wakes up in the night (and doesn't need something). Believe me from experience... That one's an important step. When my girl gets rocked to deep sleep, she still will wake up multiple times in the night and won't go back out unless hubs or I re-tucks her in. When I do bedtime and put her down with a kiss and awake, she sometimes fusses for 4-6 minutes before falling asleep, but then she sleeps like a log AND will just roll over and go back to sleep when she stirs between sleep cycles. I think had I started sleep training earlier, we could have avoided the fussing completely. It is phasing out though.

I recommend the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. Not all of it is great advice, but a lot of it is and it also gives you some guidelines to follow regarding how much sleep is needed by age, biological sleep facts, and tips for getting into that awesome sleep groove with babies and children of any age.

As for our personal routine with my 10.5 month old:

Wake up between 6 and 6:30am.
First nap between 8 and 9am for 1 to 1.5 hours (unless a day like today when she did 30 minutes and Dad got her up and then she fussed ALL MORNING.)
Second nap right after lunch (between 11:30am and noon) for 2 to 2.5 hours.
Dinner between 5 and 5:30, bath if it's bath night (every other night), play time, bottle, books and songs, in crib between 6:30 and 7:30 (depending on how her naps were that day). I purposely do her bottle pretty early- sometimes right after dinner/bath- because I want to make it easier on myself when it's time to wean. I'm hoping that by the time she's 12 months, she'll be taking that last bottle in a sippie cup with dinner. My girl knows the routine... When it gets to the second book or "You are my Sunshine," she pulls her puppy up to her nose, lays her head down on my chest and sighs. Then I know she's ready to go into her bed. There's never usually a fight at all.

I know that was A LOT, but I hope it helps! Good luck!

I can't speak to the No-Cry or Ferber methods because I am not well read on either, I can just tell you how Happy Sleeper works. (very brief, totally incomplete explaination. I highly recommend getting the book.)

Starting at about 2 months, build your naps around a 90 minute wake cycle, regardless of how long the naps are. As soon as baby wakes, start the clock. Around 75 minutes, start the nap routine (an abridged version of the bedtime routine). 90 minutes, down for nap. After a few weeks of this, the timing should start to sync up and you'll start to see your baby's natural rhythm take shape and form a schedule.

Bedtime (lights-out) should be 7-7:30, so start the bedtime routine earlier to prepare. Bedtime routine should be the same every night, so baby can learn the predictable progression of steps and pick up on cues that say "ok, its bedtime, I know what this means and I can relax because I know what happens next.") Ex. Feed->Bath->Massage->Song->Bed (drowsy but awake).

Once down, utilize the Soothing Ladder, a progression of intervention steps that help avoid overhelping and give your baby the chance to start learning self-soothing without expecting them to do it all at once. You might rush in to sooth your crying baby by picking them up when all they may have needed was a little shushing. You work your way up the ladder as needed and again, your baby begins to predict the steps and feel more confident about what to expect. Example of ladder steps would be:

7. Feed
6. Pick baby up and gently rock
5. Jiggle baby in bed
4. Your touch, pat on the head, tummy rub, etc.
3. Replace pacifier/lovey
2. Sound of your voice, talking, shushing, etc.

1. Your presence in the room.
   
   You work your way up the ladder, spending only 10-15 seconds on each, but not skipping steps. For instance, you may find baby is calmed just by a little head pat instead of a full pick up and rocking.
   
   At about 5 months, the "sleep training" can begin because baby now has the cognitive ability to self-soothe, they may just need help building the skills. (I will be ultra brief here because my LO only turned 5 months today so we haven't tried this in practice yet.) Naps should still be on the 90-minute wake cycle until about 6-7 months, then you can shift to a time-of-day schedule.
   
   Bedtime success hinges on the early bedtime and consistent bedtime routine. The change here is ditching the Soothing Ladder and moving to the Sleep Wave. The goal here is to pass the baton of soothing to your child, but assure them that you support their independence. You come and go in a reliable way, responding to your baby in a way that is responsive, predictable, consistent, which becomes hypnotic.
   
   Sleep Wave steps:
   
   
2. Put baby down drowsy but awake. Give baby a pat and say your "goodnight script", which should be the same every time you leave the room after this point. Ex. "Its time for sleeping. Mommy's right outside. I love you."
   
   
3. 5-minute check. If baby starts to cry (really cry, not fuss, grunt or whine), wait 5 minutes. Go into the room where the baby can see and hear you, say your script and walk out. The check is only to let baby know you're there. Limit the visit to 7-10 seconds.
   
   
4. If baby is still crying, repeat step 2 exactly. If baby stops crying, start the clock over again and wait another 5 minutes if they cry again.
   
   
5. Wake-up time should be 11 hours after bedtime. Before this 11 hour mark, use the Sleep Wave to go back to bed, but after 11 hours, greet your baby and let them know its morning and give lots of morning cues (open the blinds, smile, etc.). This will help reaffirm the circadian rhythm and help baby determine the what it feels like when its time to wake for the day versus when they need to go back to sleep.
   
   What sold me on this method is the way it explains this approach as balanced. On the one hand, you want to support the need for closeness and help in a way that is nurturing, lots of touch, skin-to-skin and eye contact. On the other hand, you want to support their need for separation and independence with exploration, mastery persistence and confidence. Attunement holds both of these approaches in a balanced way that is supportive of both these needs for baby (and you!).
   
   Hope this wall-of-text was helpful. There's so much that is worth reading that isn't in this post, so if this resonates with you at all, I highly recommend you pick up the book. It really spoke to me and I haven't been able to put it down! Best wishes and happy sleeping!

I feel for you mama <3 I went through the same thing. Sleep deprivation is brutal. I don't have the time to post a long coherent comment right now (it's midnight here in Canada) but didn't want to leave without sending you a hug, and maybe a few ideas. First off, could your baby be high-needs ? (mine was, he's now a happy and healthy 3 year-old who still doesn't sleep through the night, like his mom and dad, who also don't sleep through the night ;) High-needs babies/toddlers have a more excitable central nervous system, and are notorious bad sleepers -- but in the end, they grow up to be as happy and healthy as their calmer friends. But that doesn't make things easier right now, does it :(
We have a family bed, and nursed / comforted him to sleep every single time. I know how hard it is. Maybe you can get some help during the day so you can take a decent nap, at least ? Maybe papa can take her on weekend mornings and go for a long walk with her in a carrier, while you catch up on zzz's ?
I will try to sign in tomorrow to send you some links, but I found this little blog post by Racheous from Respectful Parenting with several interesting links which are very attachment-oriented, as well as this one written by a mama going though the same thing. Evolutionary Parenting has several good articles on sleep training and its effect on infant development.
You can also get Dr James McKenna's book, Sleeping with your baby and many other resources that can be tailored to your preferences. Anyway... wish I could give you a hand. Please get help so you can rest a little. Parenting is crazy hard and was never intended to be done in solitude... We all need support. You're doing a great job mama ! Hang in there ! <3

I've been doing this on a smaller scale than office in the picture at my house for the last several years. I used the TED talk and the book How to Grow Fresh Air to pick my plants. I have snake plant, English ivy, golden pathos, areca palm, and peace lily primarily but I do have others that I grow just because I enjoy the look of them.

I live in a house that was built within the last ten years. All of the new carpet, paint, etc. is off gassing. Weather and my husband's seasonal allergies prevent me from opening the windows as much as I'd like. We cook a lot and have pets. I started noticing that the air in the house was stale and sour.

I didn't have a huge budget for plants so I got the smallest/least expensive that were available at my local nursery. The cheapest were 99 cents and I don't think I paid more than $5 for the most expensive. Since the pots were small those were also pretty cheap. The one thing I didn't skimp on was soil. I got the best potting soil they had. But again since my plants and pots were small I didn't need that much.

I began to notice results the next day. I walked in to my house and where before the air would seem heavy, sour, just off somehow...I took a breath and was just breathing clean air.

The plants require maintenance of course. After a while I began to notice that the air wasn't as fresh as it was when I had first gotten them. I didn't know you had to dust/clean the leaves. I took a damp paper towel and gently wiped all of the leaves. As soon as I did that I got my wonderful fresh air back. I tried to put them all on the same watering schedule. Some of them dry out in a day and a half, others take a week or more. So I had to start doing quick do you need to be watered checks every day or two for a while. Now I have a pretty good schedule.

tl;dr This really works. You don't have to have a jungle. Even a few houseplants of the right type and properly cared for make a difference.

>methodically state the case for why creation is most likely and/or why evolution is unlikely.

You will find lots and lots of the latter. Very little of the former.

>I'd also be happy to read GOOD anti-creation books as well, provided they meet the above criterion of not being mocking.

Those would just be science books based on the academic literature, wouldn't they?

Here is my reading list form the past few months. These would be pro-evolution (a.k.a science). Creationism is mentioned in a few of them, but almost in passing because Creationism is simply not a factor in legitimate scientific research, so it gets pretty much no consideration.

Knock yourself out. ;)

• Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin - Also, watch the three part series that aired on PBS hosted by Neil Shubin.
  
  
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean B. Carroll - An in depth look into developmental evolution.
  
  
• The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People by Neil Shubin
  
  
• The Link by Colin Tudge and Josh Young
  
  
• Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade
  
  
• Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA by Daniel J. Fairbanks - This and the other Fairbanks book listed below are the only books on this list with the intent to refute what creationists contend. He does this not by presenting the creationist argument and then trying to refute. He does it by simply presenting the evidence that science has born out regarding human evolution and genetics.
  
  
• The Story of Earth by Robert Hazen - this is a cool book about the history of the Earth and life and how geology and biology worked in tandem with other factors to produce life from the point of view of a protein biologist.
  
  
• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey - Good general overview of evolutionary and geologic history.
  
  
• The Cambrian Explosion: The Construction of Animal Biodiversity by Edwin Douglas - This is the most academic book in this list and, as such, is the most difficult to read. It is a concise look at what we know about the Cambrian Explosion from the scientific literature.
  
  
• Life's Ratchet by Peter Hoffmann - Very good book about how the chaos wrought inside cells by thermal motion at the molecular level leads to the ordered functioning of the machinery of life.
  
  
• What is Life? How Chemistry Becomes Biology by Addy Pross - Super interesting take on the question, "What is Life?" He comes to a very interesting conclusion which might have implications for abiogenesis research.
  
  
• The Machinery of Life by David S. Goodsell - A neat little book that gets you acquainted with what it's really like inside of cells. A good companion book to read with Life's Ratchet as they highlight different aspects of the same topic.
  
  
• Evolving by Daniel J. Fairbanks
  
  
• Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes by Svante Paabo - Very interesting book about the drama, blood, sweat and tears, Dr. Paabo shed to develop the techniques to sequence ancient DNA. You simply won't find books like this and Your Inner Fish above amongst Creationist literature because they simply don't do what these scientists do out in the field and in the lab.

These problems have to do with accumulated muscular tension which over time becomes "permanent". It can be removed but it will not go away on its own. Muscles will start to stick together and more and more movement patterns are impaired. In the body, everything is connected to everything, so it is more useful to work on realigning the body as a whole.

As you have found, most regular doctors know nothing about such things and have no interest in learning.

You must now embark on a Healing Journey. You can take a self-help approach or you can spend a lot of money paying various
therapists to help you. Or you can do both. The types of therapists that may be helpful will be various kinds of "bodyworkers" - massage therapists, myofascial therapists, Rolfers, Hellerworkers, etc. Maybe some chiropractors. You might look into yoga and other types of stretching. You need to spend time checking into various approaches and helpers to see what and/or who works for you.
You can make all the progress you want on this. Its just a matter of how much you want to learn and how much time you want to spend learning about and working on yourself.

Here are some very special books that I highly recommend:
(there are countless more)

 

• Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Other Repetitive Strain Injuries - Sharon Butler
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572240393/
  
• Author's Website: http://www.selfcare4rsi.com
  
   
  
  
  
• Deskbound - Kelly Starrett
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/1628600586/
  
• Author's website: http://www.mobilitywod.com
  
• also search Youtube for Mobility WOD videos
  
   
  
  
  
• Pain Free - Pete Egoscue
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553379887/
  
• Author's website: http://www.egoscue.com
  
   
  
  
• The Endless Web: Fascial Anatomy and Physical Reality - R. Louis Schultes
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/1556432283/
  
   
  
  
• Discovering the Body's Wisdom - Mirka Knaster
  
• "A Comprehensive Guide to More than Fifty Mind-Body Practices
  
• that Can Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress, and Foster Health,
  
• Spiritual Growth, and Inner Peace"
  
• https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553373277/
  
   
  
  Note the reviews on these books. And note that you can get them cheaper used.
  
  Have faith. Good luck!
  

1- I highly, highly recommend 'the happy sleeper'. It provides a really good breakdown on what is involved physically, emotionally and mentally with children's sleep. It provides a guide for helping your child learn to self soothe, how to take a step back and let them figure out sleep for themselves and eventually also training them. It starts off with a 'sleep ladder' before you actually start training, in order to help your kids learn to sleep while not getting in their way. Once your kid is a certain weight and is ready (this varies from kid to kid) you can move on to actual sleep training. Four months might be a bit young, typically the recommendation is 6 months (though we started at 5 and a half on the reco of our pediatrician and it was fine).

Building a solid routine and helping them navigate their own self soothing techniques is critical to infant sleep. Your routine should be exactly the same every night, regardless of your routine. Ours is change to PJ's, massage, quick feed, story, song/dance and then sleep. Once you get to that point you can try their 'sleep wave' technique to get them to sleep through the night.

BTW I discovered that sleep training is highly polarizing on reddit (and elsewhere?) and people have feelings about it. I land solidly on the side of the data available, which overwhelmingly says that teaching your kid how to safely sleep by themselves early in life leads to healthy sleep habits later.

2- For sleep sacks and 'fussiness', reading 'the happy sleeper' really helped me re-evaluate what I saw as 'fussiness'. What tends to happen is they'll fall asleep safely in your arms and will wake up in a new environment, and basically go: "Hey, this isn't how I fell asleep!" The book (and most other techniques) recommend putting your baby down half drowsy so they wake up in the same environment they fall asleep in. The 'fussy' part, where they kick and move around and flail, this can be part of your baby learning how to self-soothe. My daughter used to do this and would raise her legs up and hold them up against the sides of the crib - I thought she was just being really fussy and this wasn't comfortable so I would gently move them down. MISTAKE. This is how she self-soothes! She does it 4 months after sleep training and it's part of her own routine.

3 - I don't think there are any recommended medications to help kids sleep. Babies sleep like garbage after the first few months until they learn how to self-soothe and you sleep train them (or they eventually learn on their own). It's just life, I'm afraid.

Also about the pillow - unless your baby actually has flat head and this is something your doctor prescribed, I would absolutely not have it in the crib. The WHO and many other orgs are very clear about this - nothing should be in the crib except your baby, safely in their sleep sack. That's it. If this is a 'preventative' measure you have to carefully weigh the small odds of possibly getting flat head (and you'll know it if it happens and it's very easy to treat) vs the very real dangers of having anything that can harm your babies breathing, be it through covering them or putting them into a position they can't get out of. Also you said your baby is fussy and moving around a lot - they won't get flat head if they're doing this!

Of course. I know how confusing everything can be at the start, but with time, some patience, and the desire for some understanding, it should work out all right.

If you are deeply curious about the different types of insulin, their effective use, how to properly use them, and how to properly figure out how to find the right dose... there is a wonderful book that can be used as a resource. 'Using Insulin: Everything You Need for Success with Insulin" is a wonderful book that explains in rather good detail how all that stuff works.

It's certainly no replacement for speaking with a doctor, but who knows, you may even be recommended to pick it up to use as a tool for better understanding. :)

If you are a breastfeeding family you should check out Sweet Sleep.
http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sleep-Nighttime-Strategies-Breastfeeding/dp/0345518470

If you don't want to buy it contact a local La Leche League Leader and see if you can borrow a copy. www.llli.org.

Do NOT swaddle WHILE bed-sharing. If you swaddle a baby you should put them in a crib or side-car style bassinet. If they are swaddled and anything obstructs their breathing they won't be able to help themselves. Happiest Baby methods are great for calming but once baby is asleep you can unswaddle.
Happiest baby video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=guRi6zyFHtw

Bed sharing is extremely safe if you are prepared for it. With a baby this small you need a firm mattress and baby should be sleeping on the outside of mom (away from dad or other bed sharers) for a few weeks. Mom will naturally sleep side lying and create a safe space with her elbows and knees framing baby. If she normally sleeps belly or back she may benefit from a body pillow or regular pillow along her back to prop her up.

If you can, put your mattress on the floor. This eliminates the danger of falling. Once baby is mobile the room should be baby proofed and either gated or with a closed door. This allows mom and dad to continue to sleep and baby could move around the room and entertain himself safely.

OP, also remember that babies as small as yours need help regulating their breathing and body temperature. That's why baby is so comfortable on your chest. Try taking sleeping shifts for a few days just to get over the exhaustion. Then you can work on sleeping at the same time again. Good luck!

Unfortunately, that is incorrect. HSV-1 (usually associated with cold sores around the mouth) and HSV-2 (usually associated with genital herpes) are two viruses, but HSV-1 is actually a growing cause of genital herpes, and while rarer, HSV-2 can be found in the oral area.

Yes, it's best to avoid contact when you have an outbreak, as there's a higher chance of transmission. It's also possible to still spread herpes when you don't have a visible outbreak (asymptomatic shedding) although the risk is much lower than if you did have an outbreak. I'd recommend having her get a specific type test to see if she has HSV-1, just to be 100% sure, as there is a surprising amount of people who do have HSV-1, and aren't aware of it.

If you're concerned about transmitting the virus, you can consider daily antiviral medication, as well as using dental dams/saran wrap. The best thing you can do is educate yourselves, and make informed decisions about what risks you are comfortable taking together.

There's a great book written by Terri Warren on the topic. While her main focus is genital herpes, there's still a lot of good information applicable for HSV-1. She also has a free e-handbook on her clinic's website. Educate yourself and decide for yourself.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-News-About-Bad-Everything/dp/1572246189/
http://www.westoverheights.com/genital_herpes/handbook.html

Dr. McKenna's Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory is another great source for evidence-based and clear best practices (OP, you might not need this as much but I wanted to add this to the list of mentioned sites). I highly recommend it, as well as his book.

My parents did bedsharing with all of us, but even so I was a little nervous about the prospect of it! But after reading McKenna's book and browsing the website resources, I feel much more informed and comfortable about the prospect of bedsharing (if it works for baby), and ready to take on the naysayers because there's plenty of evidence that when done safely it's a great sleep practice!

It will pass, but may return around 7 months. I’m reading this (DD is 6 months). Highly recommended by a friend who said it saved his sanity and marriage with two kids.

The Sleep Lady®'s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593155581/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hz4FDb9CG44CE

That is so tough. I had a similar sleep issue with my then 9 month old (she is now 23 months) waking up hourly. I had given up at night time and my husband had to take over because I just couldn't do anymore. I had no idea what sleep deprivation could do. People at work told me I turned mean.

Luckily, I found a sleep trainer in my area who advocated the "Sleep Lady Shuffle" - it's a gradual approach to helping little ones get used to sleeping on their own, with the parent by their side. Our problem was that we would rush into the room the second she cried so she always expected us to get her back to sleep, she didn't know how to put herself to sleep. Here is the book:

The Sleep Lady®'s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593155581/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XTiSCbKNANBBE

You could also reach out on their website if you were interested in having someone locally support you: sleeplady.com

This book saved us and we also had the sleep trainer supporting us. I will say that everything has changed at 23 months. My daughter is experiencing separation anxiety which is contributing to frequent night wakings, like 2 to 3 times per night. I'm considering reaching out to the sleep trainer again to help us get through it. Unfortunately, my pediatrician doesn't seem versed in sleep solutions other than CIO.

Hang in there as best you can, I think you are doing the right thing by working with your local healthcare support and connecting with others.

Genetic statistics 👍🏻

As weird as it may sound, i love modern cities and i love living downtown. I'd start with Canada, because that's my favourite country, but i'd honestly love to travel all around the world. So many different cultures!

I read Marvel comics for fun, but atm i'm reading a book (well, i downloaded a free pdf of it because i'm a broke college student) called Endless Forms Most Beautiful. I'm not evo-devo but that's always been an interest of mine, so i like reading about it.

My boys have never been good sleepers. The advice in the No Cry Sleep Solution combined with Weissbluth's sleep 'schedule' helped a lot in the beginning, but at 6 months out, I needed something stronger as my boys still had opposite schedules and were up a lot at night. I read through a ton of baby sleep books and picked bits and pieces from a bunch. The Sleep Lady's Good Night, Sleep Tight is my current favorite because it has detailed breakdowns by month and a plan that's basic and easy to follow. I don't follow her guidelines 100% because I breastfeed on demand rather than schedule, and they still wake each other up overnight, but, with her help, I have my boys taking naps semi-together and nighttime has gotten a lot easier.

The thing about baby sleep is that you need to figure out what works for you and your baby. Some babies are fine being up every hour. Other babies are not. You can often tell how well a baby has slept by how quickly they go to bed after waking up in the morning or by fussiness. Since tweaking my boys' schedule and being more diligent about putting them down to sleep, both boys are less fussy and my night owl no longer spends all morning trying to get back to bed.

Sleeping through the night should come with growth, but some babies need help more than others. Read through the books and try out a plan for a few weeks. Don't be afraid of letting them grouse or cry for a bit if nothing else works. I swore I would never do CIO before I started on this sleep journey. Haven't had to yet, but I do now believe it's a necessity for some kids, perhaps if better sleep habits aren't taught to them earlier.

I loved biomedical pop-sci with a passion when I was in high school. "Stiff" was on my bookshelf for sure. Didn't read Atul Gawande's stuff until later, but enjoyed them very much. My favorites from when I was a teen were:

• The Ghost Map, which is sort of about cholera, but really about epidemiology
  
  
• Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC
  
  
• The Hot Zone (Ebola) and The Demon in the Freezer (Smallpox)
  
  
• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
  
  and others, such as The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down. All are great reads.

>Actually, that was funded by government research, at the University of Toronto, a public government funded research university.

The original discovery of insulin, by Banting, Best, Collip, and McLeod was funded by UT.

I didn't say Eli Lily discovered insulin. I said that they perfected the mass production of insulin, a non-trivial problem. You'd probably enjoy this book. It's a good read.

>I can't think of any cancer treatments that exist that haven't been researched without government funds.

And you know of all possible cancer treatments and their origins?

Further, why are we constraining the discussion to cancer?

Industry does so much research that (for example) there are specific guidelines put out by the FDA for industry gene therapy studies.

In one meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, it was found that 69% of the RCTs were industry funded.

Your original argument seemed to be that the public sector is the only sector capable of funding research on an appreciable scale; I think 69% of RCTs in that meta-analysis being industry funded argues that a substantial proportion of science is and/or can be industry funded.

Now, certainly not every study (not even most studies) are RCTs, but I think we can give industry more credit than you're trying to give it here.

>Mannkind hasn't really done anything to contribute intellectually. The whole notion of insulin and diabetes, again, was not discovered by private companies.

You're aware of everything Mannkind has done, and its current and future impact?

Anything except discovering insulin itself (one of the most major advances in the 21st century) doesn't count as a scientific advancement, then? No True Scotsman.

I'm personally acquainted with at least one patient who has had opportunity to benefit from Mannkind's output.

>What is the intellectual contribution of 454 sequencing?

Here's a brief article outlining the kind of power that 454 sequencing gave to investigators, comparing the Sanger sequencing used by the human genome project and the capability of 454.

Without the development of 454 and similar technologies, we'd still be working on a genome for ten years instead of doing it in ten days. Progress in genomic research has been orders of magnitude faster because of the development of these technologies. It's difficult to overstate the impact.

>You made the claim that you were forced to do something. This is false.

If I don't pay taxes, there will be untenable and physical consequences to that decision.

This is the definition of force.

>Nobody's keeping you here on our land. If you want to live on our land, you have to agree to our terms. That's standard libertarian philosophy here. Our property is ours.

The position I'm taking for the sake of this discussion (and as a member of 'we') is that we change the terms, because the current state of the terms is morally reprehensible. And I can argue that, while staying here. And you still haven't provided a counterpoint.

Or you could just keep bed sharing. She'll eventually want to sleep in her own bed, all kids do.

I read Sweet Sleep which is put out by The Leche League. (https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sleep-Nighttime-Strategies-Breastfeeding/dp/0345518470/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=sweet+sleep&qid=1575144694&sr=8-3)
It makes some pretty compelling arguments for bedsharing and against sleep training.

We've been bedsharing since our daughter was 3 months old and its been a really positive experience. A lot of moms i talk to want to bedshare because it feels more natural and they like the connection of being closer to their baby overnight but feel guilty about it because they feel their baby "should" be able to sleep on their own already. She'll get there even if you bedshare now. Do what gets your family the most sleep and gives your heart the most peace. And check out the book for how to make bedsharing safe. Or read this article that explains how to make your bed safe https://www.llli.org/the-safe-sleep-seven/

Lots of the advice here is good. You might also want to check out The Good News about the Bad News for good tips on how to talk to a partner, stats on transmission rates, and percents of population who are already infected. If you like the book you can even give it to him to read if he seems uncomfortable or just wants to know more.

FWIW, I have an oral infection HSV I (commonly called cold sores) and the best way I've found to talk to partners is something along the lines of:

I really like spending time with you and I can see us having a future together. I also think it's clear we are headed for sexytimes, and before we go down that road I'd like to talk to you about being safe, birth control, and STDs. You should know I have herpes, and it's important to me that you are in the loop because if we're on the same page we can take precautions to reduce the likelihood that you get infected and because it's what I wish my partner would have done for me.

Don't stress too much; it sounds like you really do have everything under control, and if you seem calm, that will help keep him calm about it.

What is your life? Well, right now on the internet you’re providing a lesson to a complete stranger on the internet. To be fully honest, I’m assuming you’re not a pulmonologist or an SLP but it seems you know what you’re talking about, I’m still taking your advice, respectfully but with a few grains of salt.

I had thought about going to a speech language pathologist (SLP) so I went to two different SLPs that specifically offer trans voice training. After my initial evaluations, one said “I sounded fine” and didn’t think I would be “a good candidate.” WTAF?! The other didn’t take insurance or offer a sliding scale. Instead, she said that to “people in my financial situation,” she had suggested The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication by Matthew Mills and Gillie Stoneham. How honest!!

I tried doing your speaking exercises over the last several days and I realized that I am already having my belly expand a little when inhaling during meditation as well as when I’m breathing normally.

Before writing this comment, I spent the last couple days trying to do this while talking but old habits die hard! I don’t know if this is a factor but I live in a part of America that is well known for the stereotype as the fastest talkers in the Union and I’m also a chatterbox. That being said, I’m doing a little better with my speech patterns sounding more male, like having my speech a little more monotonous, less bouncy, more direct, among other “traditionally” Western masculine traits.

I've got a peace lily there which really isn't big enough. I'm a newbie at growing plants but I know I want a good-looking air-filtering plant.

Dr. Wolverton's book gave me a few ideas:

• Bamboo Palm
  
• Areca Palm
  
• Dracaena Janet Craig
  
• Dwarf Date Palm
  
  The palms look the best to me, but the Janet Craigs at the garden centre all look amazingly pristine and healthy and are supposed to be very easy to care for. Lady Palm's are supposed to be excellent air-filtering plants, but the ones I saw all had ugly brown tips. I'm also mildly worried that I'll mismanage a palm and it will look awful instead of beautiful.
  
  What do you guys think?
  
  

Atul Gawande - Better, Complications, and checklist manifesto.

Sandeep Jauhar - Intern

Jerome Groopman - How doctor's think

Michael Collins - Hot lights, cold steel and Blue collar, blue scrubs

Samuel Shem - House of God

Brian Eule - Match day

Paul Ruggieri - Confessions of a surgeon

Emily R. Transue - On call

Okay so I was in the same position you are in right now. I wanted to read as much as I could because I truly found it fascinating. I read these books and I'm glad I did. These books just give you an idea of how hard doctors work and what the life of a doctor is like. Another recommendation is Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. It has nothing to do with medicine but I read it and I think you should too. He talks about the life of a chef and how perfection and long long hours are demanded of him. I feel like there are some overlaps between the different settings. Chef/doctor and Restaurant/hospital. Anyways, This list should last you a long time. Hope you enjoy.


Edit: Added links.

Upvote for G-Diapers alone. Those things are awesome. Be sure to use the swizzle stick to dissolve the disposable pads in the toilet bowl BEFORE flushing. I liked your whole list, and I'd like to add Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child to your Happiest Baby book. It really helped our kid establish a wonderful sleeping pattern.

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theres also a bunch of prime pantry items. like white cheddar and shell pasta, fried rice, and candy for #1 or less.

yeah, all of those have free shipping, otherwise I might have found cooler stuff :)

this book. He's a CIO guy, but I think the advice is still valuable doing it the way you're talking about. He's really big on moving the schedule forward and backwards until you find your sweet spot for naps, bedtime and wakeup.

I pick it up every few months when my girl's sleep needs change and he gets us back on track with age based suggestions that I would never have thought of.

The big thing is to keep a total number of hours of sleep in mind and make sure your child is hitting the right goal. My girl needs ~14 hours a day so we do 12 at night and 2 at naptime. When she was younger she did 12 at night, and 2- 1 hour naps. It really makes a difference in our day for how alert and happy she is.

Using Insulin by John Walsh has a great section on carb counting and a good carb factor list.

Pumping Insulin also by Walsh.

Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner will help you wrap your head around how insulin works and what you need to do as your own external pancreas.

Scheiner also wrote: The Ultimate Guide to Accurate Carb Counting.

And, he has very affordable online "classes" in T1 management. The link includes a free video on how to dose for pizza :-)

In the meantime, this is a fantastic list of carb factors and an explanation on how to use them.

Get thee a food scale. Nothing fancy required.

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You want to put your son in his cot while he is drowsy, but still awake. That will help him learn to fall asleep without being rocked. It is really hard to start out with, but it is a long-term investment in his sleep quality, and your sanity.

I really liked the book by The Sleep Lady. She's sort of a low-intensity sleep trainer. We borrowed her book when our daughter was 5 months-old, from a woman with triplets. I made my husband do the nighttime duty, which nobody enjoyed, but was effective. She knew she couldn't get breastmilk from Daddy, so she didn't protest so much. About a week later, she was going down and sleeping through the night with ease. 10 years later she's still easy at bedtime, and sleeps like the dead.

buy "Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child" by Dr. Weissbluth and get that child on a sleep schedule...i know it is painful but the only way your son is going to learn to self-soothe and get the amount of sleep he needs is to let him cry...you arent betraying him, or betraying his trust, you are giving him one of the best gifts a parent can give - independence and rest...i put sleep just a notch below food in my parenting pyramid and believe it is SUPER important that children get enough sleep...that means two 1-2 hour naps a day until they are 2 yrs and then one 2-3 hr nap a day until at least 4 years...i know that seems like a lot and it will be hard to get the rest of you life done around the nap schedule but in my experience (i have a 3y old) sleep begets sleep and on the days that my DD doesnt get a good nap she doesnt sleep well at night...it's all in this book, i credit it with getting her to sleep through the night at 4 months and we have had minimal sleep problems ever since.

TL;DR buy this book NOW
http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/0345486455/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1311863969&sr=1-1

You can't talk about public health/epi lit without bringing up The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. It's a really intriguing look at the known history of Ebola and the Ebola Reston outbreak at a monkey house in the US, but take a lot of his details with a grain of salt because he's on the record saying that he dramatized a number of details but its entertaining and informative nonetheless. Preston has a few other books that fall in a similar fold.

I'm currently reading Spillover by David Quammen and I'm really loving it! It's a more scientifically sound book about zoonosis and how infections make their way across species and into humans. I'm personally finding it to be a lot more entertaining than The Hot Zone as well.

>There's a great book about this called "Breakthrough."

Another good book is "Banting: A Biography" by Michael Bliss (https://www.amazon.com/Banting-Biography-Michael-Bliss/dp/0802073867) and "The Discovery of Insulin: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition" also by Bliss (https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Insulin-Twenty-fifth-Anniversary/dp/0226058999/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)

The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto where the discovery was made once had an exhibit of Banting's artifacts. Included were lab notes, instruments, photographs and the telegram announcing they had won the Nobel. It was very moving to see this in person.

I think that V.S. Ramachandran's The Tell Tale Brain might be a good place to start. His writing style is very accessible and he really gives you an awe-inspiring sense of the multifaceted intrigue of studying the brain. I think if you start there, you will enter the neuro field with a great perspective to encourage growth and curiosity. If you run into any problems or difficult concepts, you can always just come back here! I've found everyone at this subreddit to always be more than helpful.

Good Luck!

wow man.. you need to get into science. There is a lot more to the brain and especially the mind than just chemicals. Here is a play list I made on some things I find fascinating in neuroscience. It may serve to get you interested enough to read up on it more. If you find those videos interesting then you might enjoy reading The Tell-Tale Brain

MS1 here:

Is she a coffee or tea drinker? If so, there are companies that do some really cool "coffee or tea" of the month deals. I've gone through quite a bit of coffee since I began...

Here are some really awesome books: House of God, Emperor of All Maladies, and Complications to name a few.

I wouldn't recommend getting her a stethoscope/medical supplies because they can be very personal. Sure, they're all roughly the same but it's an instrument you're going to be using for many years to come. "This is my stethoscope. There are many like it but this one is mine..." Just my 2 cents, at least.

I hope that helps! If I come up with any others, I'll post them here.

House plants. They remove odor-causing indoor air pollutants and increase the humidity in a room.

How to Grow Fresh Air includes a list of house plants that work best at removing toxins, including odors, and rates them by level of care needed to keep them alive. It was written by B.C. Wolverton after working with NASA to improve air and water quality by using plants.

Can't speak for the OP, however I don't take the med permanently as I want my immune system to learn to deal with it effectively.

I hope your wife was able to console her friend, I would still recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Good-News-About-Bad-Everything/dp/1572246189 , it really does help you realise what a trivial situation it is.

It's 5.5 by 4.1 inches. I'm pretty sure this is the one I got
http://www.amazon.com/Van-Goghs-Starry-Night-Notebook/dp/0486498549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1426731348&sr=8-1&keywords=starry+night+dover+notebook

And that's a really good and positive way to think of the bucket list! :)

My nearly five-month old went through this too. Their sleep develops into a more adult sleep cycle around 16 weeks so that they get REM cycles just like we do. Before 16 weeks they just went into a deep sleep right away, but now when they awake during the lighter phases of sleep, they don't know how to put themselves back to bed.

What worked for our family was moving our little one to his own room once we got the ok from our pediatrician. We also moved his bedtime earlier, starting the routine (bath, massage, book) at around 5:30pm and having him in his crib asleep at 6pm.

He was waking up every 2 hours before we made these changes, now he only wakes up once or twice a night to feed.

ETA: https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/151136145X

This book is super helpful. Also, at 4 mos, assuming your kiddo is at a healthy weight, he shouldn't be waking up >2x for hunger.

>it's just a public health issue since rabies is 100% fatal and the rabies vaccine is not 100% effective

Pedantic aside: Rabies is like, 99.998% fatal, but two people have survived it. This book about Rabies is super interesting, and I recommend it, especially to a vet: https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0143123572

I was actually terrified to cosleep until I did some reading on it. [Dr James McKenna](Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping https://www.amazon.com/dp/1930775342/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_1zNyyb9HW4PR9) is the leader on cosleeping studies in the US. I read this book before I started cosleeping. Cosleeping was necessary for us to get through the night.
Also, Dr Sears has some insight on cosleeping and SIDS
Dr Sears
Finally, when you want to ease your little one into their own bed gently, The No Cry Sleep Solution has some great advice. I used this book like an Manuel during my first year of parenting.

I'm a cosleeper and a big advocate of education of safe cosleeping. That doesn't mean cosleeping is right for you and your family. I just wanted you to have some reading material from people who have actually studied the effects of cosleeping.

PS: My best friend's baby died of SIDS, not cosleeping. So I am very familiar with how awful it is and her situation was so terrifying to me going into motherhood. I spent a great deal of time searching for answers about SIDS, as did my friend. The truth is, there are risk factors, but no known causes.

Good luck to you. I hope you and your family get some rest!

We started bedsharing when LO was around 6 weeks old. Husband is on the couch with our dogs because they would climb in bed with us otherwise so it's the safest thing. I side lie nurse and wear PJ pants (no drawstring), a nursing tank top and a cardigan to stay warm. I have two thin blankets on the bed that I pull up to my waist. They also go up to LOs waist as well. I sleep with one pillow and kind of scrunch it up under my head. LOs head is at boob height since he nurses to sleep. There is a great book called Sleeping with your baby: A parents guide to cosleeping by Dr. James McKenna that made me feel a lot more comfortable with our decision.

Highly recommend the book [The Hot Zone] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Origins/dp/0385479565/ref=sr_1_1/186-9120780-8703741?ie=UTF8&qid=1408833773&sr=8-1&keywords=hot+zone+book) which came out almost 20 years ago but is a fantastic read. It is part historical, part scientific, and just a well written account of the history of the virus as we know it.

I'm not sure how many know that the virus has already appeared in the US back in 1989 as a pathogen to monkeys but not humans. It also details the appearance of Marburg virus in German cities in the late sixties and is closely related to Ebola as it results in viral hemorrhagic fever.

Anyway, good read, pick it up if this is something that interests you.

I'm only about 5 months into the experiment, but Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child has been useful. We checked a bunch of baby books from the library, and these were the only two that we ended up buying just to have on hand.

My maternal instincts didn't kick in for so long. I felt like I hanging off the edge of a mountain and slipping a little more every day. I was numb when my first arrived, and it was just bizarre that someone handed me this thing and said I had to take care of it now.

I had a lot of problems breastfeeding. My hormones were totally trashed (which took me 6 months to discover). I cried a lot. She cried a lot. It took until 6-8 weeks, when things got better for us in terms of feeding (AKA accepting I had to supplement forever) and when she started being less of a potato. The "100 days of Darkness" were the worst.

My daughter's now 2.5. I love her to death. She's thriving and healthy, so I guess at some point my maternal instincts kicked in. I still get those days of "what is this kid doing in my house?"

But my only real advice is study up hardcore on breastfeeding (if you want to do it) -- take a class, read a book, find a support group. It really helps. Plan to attend said support group at least once a week after birth, because that's the quickest way to getting problems diagnosed. Plus, socialization. The other thing I always suggest is reading a book called Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child, or a similiar sleep book. The sooner you can get a handle on sleeping, the better off everything is.

Try not to worry; if you're already worried about what kind of mom you're going to be, my bet is that you'll be a great one. :)

That's not true. That didn't come into effect until 1980. It was simply because it wasn't patentable. His lawyers did look into whether or not he could actually patent it, but determined it wasn't patentable. There is a great book about Salk's life and work you can find here on amazon. His lawyers did in fact look into patenting it but determined they couldn't have because of prior art.

Personally, learning immuno from a big picture perspective first was crucial to for me before getting bogged down with memorizing IL-this or THat. I really liked "How the Immune System Works", it was a quick read and explained things in layman's terms for dumbdumbs like me. Your call if you want to invest in a new text so close to your exam though. Good luck!

http://www.amazon.com/Immune-System-Includes-Desktop-Edition/dp/0470657294

We ST my son at 7 MO and never had to retrain. Maybe after an illness there's a night or two of bad sleep (since I often let him sleep on me in our glider if he's sick) but it never warranted full re-training. For my family, it was the best decision we ever made. 26 MO now and still sleeps very, very well. We used The Happy Sleeper method and it worked wonders for both naps and nighttime sleep.

V.S. Ramachandran's The Tell-Tale Brain goes into detail regarding synesthesia, among other curious neurological topics. See also: Phantoms in the Brain.

Both books are very easy to read and deliver amazing insight into how the brain actually works. Ramachandran addresses synesthesia (along with mirror neurons and empathy, which are fascinating as shit) more in The Tell-Tale Brain.

You might be interested to know that almost all living things share a set of genes called the hox (also called toolbox) genes. These genes only require small mutations to cause immense changes in body shape.

If you want to learn more, read Sean B. Carroll's Endless Forms Most Beautiful.

http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/dp/0393327795

For the record, that book is in no way about religion.

The fact that so many species share so many genes is actually extremely elegant evidence of common descent. There is also the horizontal gene transfer that someone else already mentioned.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

Tons of great info on how important sleep is to growing kiddos. Also plenty of strategies for helping your young ones sleep, and quite a few stories/testimonials from parents who have been there. Helped my wife and I with both of our kids!

So very glad you are safe and being treated! Welcome to the club no ones wants to be in, ha!

Read, read, read lots of good books on T1 diabetes treatment. Become the leader of your diabetes team: your doc, pharmacist, diabetes educator, optometrist, etc. I can't recommend these books highly enough:

http://www.amazon.ca/Think-Like-Pancreas-Practical-Managing/dp/1569244367

http://www.amazon.ca/Using-Insulin-Everything-Need-Success/dp/1884804853/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342040379&sr=1-1

In case it's of interest, I found this book so helpful when my daughter was young. It helps really understand sleep patterns and how to navigate things like big transitions, travelling, change in naps from 2 to 1, etc. It covers up to age 5 and it was my bible. I hope you figure it out and life gets less stressful - good luck with the move! https://www.amazon.ca/Sleep-Lady%C2%AEs-Good-Night-Tight/dp/1593155581/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1542931199&sr=1-1&keywords=the+sleep+lady

I was just saying that the article you linked had the reason that sit-stand desks were not working for people was because they would sit down most of the time...
I think the question should be is are their health benefits for standing with proper posture all day better than sitting? and I'm sure someone like Kelly Starrett would be able to give you a million reasons and a whole book on why standing is better than sitting.

Thank you!! So the resources I’ve found most helpful are:

This YouTube video, and this whole channel really: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTViDd0QPEI

This book:
https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Book-Trans-Non-Binary-People/dp/1785921282

And I have a voice therapist I’m working with, which has really given me some of the guidance I was missing when I was working on this stuff solo. I’d highly recommend working with a voice therapist if you have the means, and can find one in your area or online.

Hope that helps some!

I actually came in this thread to recommend that book. I shouldn't be too surprised that WSPer /u/irishjihad beat me to the punch.

Richard Preston is a fantastic nonfiction author. I've liked all his books, from the Hale telescope in First Light to enormous redwoods in The Wild Trees, and of course what's probably his biggest commercial success, The Hot Zone.

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child

You're only just entering the time when you can start to really get results on sleep, so don't feel you're behind.

Until you get the book: Spreadsheet with one row for each day. Put in as many columns for down | up | down | up | down as you think you'll need + 1. Then add a column to calc the total sleep for that day.

Fill this in for a while and you will see trends in when the baby sleeps and how much. Just record for about a week and don't try to accomplish anything specific.

Next, you game the system by working on the down times, shifting them by small increments (like 15 minutes) to the times you want, and ultimately collapsing some of the sleep sessions together.

Do not try to game the system by working the wake-up time. It should be a natural function of the time they go to sleep and how much sleep they need. Always let them sleep. Never wake them up in an effort to change the sleep pattern.

This saved my butt. I wish I had done it as early as 3 mos.

PM me if you're too tire to make the spreadsheet. I'll be glad to set one up.

Have you seen their Highlights for High School feature?

Also, there are sites like Academic Earth that might be useful.

Here are a few blogs with potential. You'll have to decide for yourself if they have inappropriate content.

Here are a few book recommendations covering various fields, in no particular order (though they should all read #1):

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
   
2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
   
3. Einstein: His Life and Universe
   
4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
   
5. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
   
6. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
   
7. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
   
8. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
   
9. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
   
10. Cosmos
    
11. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
    
12. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
    
13. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
    
14. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
    
15. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
    
16. Thinking, Fast and Slow
    
17. Chaos: Making a New Science
    
18. Isaac Newton
    
19. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
    
20. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
    
    And here's a video interview with Richard Feynman they might enjoy.

A few people have pointed out that there is some debate as to whether or not this story is true. Further down in the Wikipedia article it states that "lawyers from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis did look into the possibility of a patent, but ultimately determined that the vaccine was not a patentable invention because of prior art." The citation for this leads here, which is clearly not a first party source.

I did some more Googling (which, coincidentally, is what led me to make this post in the first place because of today's doodle) and found that all roads supporting this claim seem to lead back to this book detailing the history of the development of the polio vaccine.

I don't work for Snopes so this is as far as I'm going to go to authenticate the story, but the claim that Salk's altruism is an urban myth seems to only backed up by one book written 45 years after the fact, and thus doesn't carry enough weight for it to sway my views that this guy was a rock star in his field.

That's why I added "biologist" in the title. Physicist Sean Carroll very cool, Biologist Sean Carroll also very cool! His book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, is amazing.


Next time we'll try to invite Physicist Sean Carroll! He might come!

8-1 is a good stretch at least! This sounds similar to our story. We stuck it out until I went back to work (around 5m). Then when it became clear that she wasn't waking for milk but rather for her pacifier, we decided to sleep train using the happy sleeper method. Hope you find something that works! Sorry all your friends babies are unicorns!

this book How The Immune System Works by Lauren Sompayrac It's like <100 pages and a super easy read/very approachable. Don't pirate a PDF, buy a physical copy and read it and sleep with it and shower with it. It is incredible. Immuno went from one of my worst topics to one of my best after reading it.

The language of life: How cells communicate in Health and disease is a great book about how cells make decisions and how they communicate and operate.

While it's primarily focused on the immune system (but it touches on a lot of biology) , I've found How the Immune System Works to be hands down the most readable biology book I've ever read. It's a bit focused on small elements but it contains some nice broader concepts.

I have a six week old and we've had pretty good luck with swaddling and then rocking him to sleep or putting him in the stroller and walking him around to sleep, then putting him into a baby swing to sleep.

Also we've been following the tips in this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/151136145X

Edit: last night he set a new record, slept 8 hrs straight!

I've read Complications kinda like a modern day version of your book kinda, it had some horrible stories in it too but the idea was that we could obviously take steps to do a little better, like not amputating the wrong leg or something.

I appreciate that btw I'll have to get it.

I'd recommend anything by Roy Porter. His Greatest Benefit to Mankind is a great overview. And he also edited the Cambridge History of Medicine. But as a study of a single event, I have to give a shout out to Michael Bliss's Discovery of Insulin.

I loved Emperor of all Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
It gives a lot of good background about the history of cancer, but along the way you learn a lot about the history of science and research, as well. A lo of basic research and epidemiology that we take fro granted these days came out of cancer research.

I also recently read "Rabid" which was more of a cultural history. It was a really interesting read.

I was also moved by a book about end of life. It's called "Knocking on heaven's door" by Katy Butler. She describes how the US healthcare system caused her family immeasurable suffering due to its persistence on prolonging life, without regard for the quality of that life or for the quality of life of the caregivers. Butler makes a powerful case for the benefits of Slow Medicine, palliative care, and hospice.

I see a speech therapist currently, and almost everything we do is covered in this book! You can get it on Amazon (UK or US) "The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication" if the links don't work.

It is HELLA helpful. I struggled with youtube guides (The comparative nature of them made me feel poo), but this book was incredible, I could just sit quietly by myself and work through it.

When I went to my first speech therapy session, she said I made several months worth of progress in a sentence (jumping from in-toning to full on sentences with female mannerisms), so it really showed!

Read The Hot Zone - it's the scariest book you'll probably ever read because it's completely true. Trust me. It's also just a really good read.

No need to worry? 5 out of 30 have survived the protocol.

Also, there is a good chance that the protocol might not actually do anything and that those who survived did so in spite of the protocol.

There is a LOT to worry. DO NOT TOUCH A BAT (or a racoon)

Here, listen to this awesome Radiolab piece about it: http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2013/aug/13/rodney-versus-death/

Better yet, read Rabid:

http://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0143123572/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376512674&sr=8-1&keywords=rabid

Bonus: I have had the rabies vaccine. Not fun.

Yes I read his book Deskbound and I began practicing his flossing/smashing techniques. I'm not fully through it, but I have noticed significant flexibility gains in my hips from his squat exercises/tests and I'm working on ankle mobility now.

I vaguely recall this phase. I can't remember what solved it, but know it will pass...and please for the love of anyone who hasn't read it yet, read this book. This man works miracles. 100% that's how I got through dropping the second nap. and every other sleep crisis we've had.

healthy sleep habits, happy child

You'd be surprised. You can fit several plants into one large pot and keep them near a window. I just finished placing several plants all over the house because of these studies. I'd recommend a book by B. C. Wolverton How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office. You can find other documents on Hawaii's govt website and other things, but this book shows how to care for them. Most are really simple and just need water every week or so, which takes all of 10 mins to do.

Awesome, we’ll get there :)

I also had some granulation but overall I expect it to work out. Not going to worry about it until I’m approaching 6 months - so May.

Check out this book - might be a worthwhile read!

XS mr limpy is generally what’s recommended, it’s about the size of a flaccid cis penis, it should be fine!

Here is the book, I found it pretty hard to find effective resources for transmasc people beyond just “speak from your chest”. (understandable, T drops your voice considerably, voice training isn’t a necessity for many transmasc people.) Speaking from your chest is the goal, but it’s hard to figure out how to do that in an effective way that doesn’t make you sound really nasal, so the exercises really helped me.

Two good books that I found very useful:

• Using Insulin - paperback only
  
• Think like a Pancreas - paperback or Kindle

It's questionable whether he had any real option to patent it, but it seems he tried to, realised he couldn't, and decided to play up the story as if he was supremely moral.

https://www.biotech-now.org/public-policy/patently-biotech/2012/01/the-real-reason-why-salk-refused-to-patent-the-polio-vaccine-a-myth-in-the-making

> As pointed out by Robert Cook-Deegan at Duke University, “When Jonas Salk asked rhetorically “Would you patent the sun?” during his famous television interview with Edward R. Murrow, he did not mention that the lawyers from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had looked into patenting the Salk Vaccine and concluded that it could not be patented because of prior art – that it would not be considered a patentable invention by standards of the day. Salk implied that the decision was a moral one, but Jane Smith, in her history of the Salk Vaccine, Patenting the Sun, notes that whether or not Salk himself believed what he said to Murrow, the idea of patenting the vaccine had been directly analyzed and the decision was made not to apply for a patent mainly because it would not result in one. We will never know whether the National Foundation on Infantile Paralysis or the University of Pittsburgh would have patented the vaccine if they could, but the simple moral interpretation often applied to this case is simply wrong.”

this book may help. i have it but never read it. ive read through one of his other books though and i liked it a lot. i think he's a legit source, but I really wouldn't know.

anyway for me, it was/is my shoulder health. they are pulled forward from having them in front of my at my desk all day so they hurt when i try to exercise.

a good place to start to lessen the effects of sitting would be to get up every 20 minutes or so to move around a bit, and to stretch every night

Richard Preston writes some really good books dealing with the nastiest bacteria/viruses out there. I think you'd really enjoy The Hot Zone from him. Some of the stories are pretty terrifying, but it's great for profiling the viruses origin, spread, and quarantine methods.

I’m probably going to take a lot of shit for suggesting a nonfiction novel rather than a scholarly source but I think Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone
and The Demon In The Freezer do a good job of laying out the current situation and making for exciting reading. (That said, IANAVirologist.)

Wiki pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Demon_in_the_Freezer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hot_Zone

You can get a used copy on Amazon for 6.99: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0399166025/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8

Good luck!!!

A couple I've enjoyed lately:

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers -

They're both enjoyable reads, not especially boring or academic.

I also second /u/Createx's Freakonomics recommendation. That book was great. Along the same cause and effect theme is The Tipping Point.

This book is really good for discussion on what life was like before insulin: http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Insulin-Twenty-fifth-Anniversary/dp/0226058999

I recommend it!

I would recommend this book by Dr. James McKenna on cosleeping:

http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Your-Baby-Parents-Cosleeping/dp/1930775342/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334509955&sr=1-1

He talks about safe co-sleeping and how to do it to ensure you're not increasing the risk factors for SIDS. Our baby never had the issue of spitting up and choking, if she did spit up, it would just sort of come out the side of her mouth. But, she didn't really spit up much while she was asleep for the first few months. Babies can at least turn their heads slightly to spit up and out of their mouths.

If you can't afford/find the book, the website for Dr. McKenna is also very helpful.
http://cosleeping.nd.edu/

>I have no idea how to masculinize and can't find resources. Help?

The best self help book I can recommend is here. It's written by speech pathologists. It has exercises and techniques for masculinization: https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Book-Trans-Non-Binary-People/dp/1785921282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536189271&sr=8-1&keywords=the+voice+book+for+non+binary+trans

And because I'm a nerd in this type of stuff, here's an AWESOME piece from RadioLab on a case of rabies where they were able to actually cure the patient by lowering the body temperature and inducing a coma, though it's been disputed to some extent. This is also an excellent read about rabies if you're interested.

Some highlights, rabid animals fear water, foam at the mouth, and become super aggressive. These are all to help spread the disease. Without water, the mouth of the rabid animal doesn't get clean so there's more virus present. Foaming at the mouth also increases the number of virii in the mouth. The aggression is the rabies virus taking over telling the brain to bite something to spread the disease. It's bizarre when you think of it like that.

Yeah, it's a good one. My favorite is probably still Complications by Atul Gawande. I plan on writing my own, someday.

He couldn't patent it because it was all natural stuff. He said it would be like patenting the sun. Patenting the Sun is a biography about him, good read. http://www.amazon.com/Patenting-Sun-Polio-Salk-Vaccine/dp/0688094945

This book is an excellent resource for house plants that will remove toxins, remove CO2, and produce oxygen.

It turns out that a lot of palms do a very good job with producing oxygen. You should put one or two in your room.

This is a good book to read about children and sleep. Developing good sleep habits is very important.

This may be a good time to recommend a certain medical narrative regarding Ebola:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Origins/dp/0385479565

It's an easy read and terrifying as well.

You should read this. It explains it rather well. Just because we can't map out exactly how conciousness works doesn't mean it has to by mysterious. Your brain is a network, remove enough pieces of it and that network ceases to exist.

You can think of it like the internet. I may not know every website it is or how every website contributes to every other website. But I don't think the internet is some mysterious magical thing. Remove google, remove reddit, remove wikipedia, remove my friend's blog, remove the wires under ground, remove my modem, remove your modem etc and you start to dismantle it. But all things things together make "the internet".

Really the brain works the same way based on all the evidence we have. Remove certain regions and you begin to see certain aspects of consciousness slip away. Everything from memory, to processing visuals, to processing language, to understanding how to make choices and even to the concept of self. Everything can be contributed to physical regions in the brain that are repeatable and verifiable. We just don't have the 100% picture of it yet.

This one is sooooo much better. http://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sleep-Nighttime-Strategies-Breastfeeding/dp/0345518470

I work in maternal fetal health and there is some concern about some of Karps recommendations (like swaddling which can lead to overheating and immobilize baby -- both of which increase SIDS). This is the one I recommend for my patients.

I recommend How the Immune System Works - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470657294?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00

The simple explanations really helped me, I think the book gives a good foundation.

Rabid, by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy. It is an engaging history of rabies in the context of social history and epidemiological development. I loved it!

https://www.amazon.com/Rabid-Cultural-History-Worlds-Diabolical/dp/0143123572/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1491805903&sr=8-2&keywords=rabid

Much appreciated!

I actually plan to study medicine myself, and I've seen the flashcard flow chart. From your post, I take it you recommend beginning with zanki, and thus relying on Pathoma and Sketchy?

It'll be a few years until I'll start studying, but I've been thinking about—as a primer—doing Incremental Reading on these first.

• Anatomy. Atlas of Anatomy by Schuenke et al https://www.amazon.com/Atlas-Anatomy-Anne-M-Gilroy/dp/1604067454
  
• Physiology. Physiology by 5th Edition by Costanzo https://www.amazon.com/Physiology-STUDENT-CONSULT-Online-Costanzo/dp/145570847X
  
• Immunology. How the Immune System Works by Sompayrac (looks like it's written in Classic Prose) https://www.amazon.com/How-Immune-System-Works-Desktop/dp/0470657294
  
• Microbiology. Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple by Gladwin, Trattler and Mahan https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Microbiology-Made-Ridiculously-Simple/dp/1935660152
  
  Dunno what you think about that?

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is one of the more recent NYT bestsellers that is also a pretty good biology read. The Hot Zone is a classic, and although it is dated, it will probably regain some of its formal popularity due to the [current ebola outbreak] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak). I would recommend Creighton if you want a "fun" read, but his works are fictional, predictable, and often infuriatingly inaccurate.

Here is the polish that caught my eye
Van Goh was able to paint this starry masterpiece due to stars existing! IN SPACE!
...TO INFINITY AND BEYOND! I love Toy Story.

I'm currently going through Deskbound. Highly recommended. I thought I knew a lot about the body before but this just blows it away. I think some of his basic posture work over the last month has solved 70% of my issues. I also like how he goes after both treating the symptoms AND the cause.

This is the best book for understanding how the immune system works.
Or you can check out what Khan Academy has for immunology.

The one books that a lot of people feel is a must read is "Using Insulin" or "Pumping Insulin" by John Walsh. It covers in detail how to test basal rates, carb factors, insulin sensitivity and a bunch of other things. I have a copy of Pumping Insulin and I wish I had it sooner, it's excellent as a reference on the shelf.

1.50 awesome notebook

Or .89 awesome stolen laser beams lol

https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Sleep-Nighttime-Strategies-Breastfeeding/dp/0345518470 This book by le leche league had all the answers for me, except how to keep my arms and torso warm. I can't sleep with a shirt because then it's too hard for baby to nurse without us both waking up and I worry about suffocating him on accident, so I'm only wearing underwear and it's really cold! I also have to keep the blanket basically near his feet or he overheats. I'd also say that cosleeping is not very comfortable, I don't sleep as deeply as I did before baby because I'm always aware of his presence, I wake up every time his breathing changes or he wiggles. On the other hand it gives me peace of mind since I am pretty sure I would wake up if anything happened to him

Someone suggested The Hot Zone to me here a while back. It's nonfiction, but the plot and characters were compelling enough that I'm glad I gave it a try.

If you haven't read them, The Stand and The Andromeda Strain are two very well-loved books in that genre.

I would say those talks and films are sort of on the extreme side of things, and are intended to illicit a strong response and a call to action -- not criticizing them, just pointing out their purpose. Since that seemed to work well for you, you may want to look into fitness communities that have strong beliefs in the benefits of fitness and the detriments of being sedentary. The CrossFit community is one example. I haven't tried it, but I've heard it varies wildly from box to box, so you'd have to do some perusing.

If you want to do some related reading, here's a book that focuses on how sitting is killing you.

However, you do not have to commit yourself to some group fitness regimen to get in shape. I completely second the idea that all you need to do is find a form of exercise that is fun for you. Bicycling, hiking mountains, swimming, powerlifting, running, olympic weightlifting, badminton, roller blading, whatever. That being said, if you're trying to lose or gain weight, eating correctly to meet those goals is roughly 80% of the battle.

Buy The Voice Book for Trans and Nonbinary People and do the relevant exercises in it. That's by and large what I did to feminize/neutralize my voice, I was recommended it by a speech therapist I went to. The two key aspects IMO are raising your fundamental tone up into the correct range (gradually) while keeping a good amount of pitch variation and learning to bring the place where your voice feels like it resonates more into your head than your throat. This takes time and practice, and I had an easier time than most because my standard "phone voice" already was mistaken for female on occasion (plus I'd taken singing lessons, so I had some knowledge of how to manipulate my voice), but keep at it, the results are SO worth it. It's one of the most important aspects of getting read as female I think, and too many trans women neglect it to their detriment.

Complications is worth your time. I am currently reading Mountains Beyond Mountains and really enjoying it so far.

The Areca Palms are pretty hard to kill and pretty cheap at the store for small ones...I had four and am down to three. There is a book about the 50 best houseplants to get, too.

Seconded, you might want to look into the Safe Sleep Seven and the Book Sweet Sleep for some best practices.

If you are interested in Ebola, and you haven't read it already, I would highly recommend The Hot Zone.

Hey! It seems like you know what you're talking about... How do you combat books like https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345518470/ (Sweet Sleep) that say CIO is bad for brain development and has long term negative consequences? Ever since reading that book, my wife is ANTI-CIO and as such, we're hardcore bed sharing / attachment parents now... which kinda sucks but the kiddo loves it and we get plenty of sleep.... But HE has to be attached to us to sleep, forever now.

Books like the Hot Zone suggest that people have been concerned about Ebola for a while. It's lethality makes it a good candidate for a bioweapon (if you can get it to mutate a bit so it's airborne and the early symptoms are less severe), for one thing.

Forget janeway for casual interest. You want “how the immune system works” https://www.amazon.com/How-Immune-System-Works-Desktop/dp/0470657294

The Hot Zone if you are looking for something factual.

If you want a fiction based in facts, then I got nothing for you.

If you want an exploration into the minds of doctors and health professionals, then I recommend Complications.

I would purchase this book. https://www.amazon.com/Happy-Sleeper-Science-Backed-Helping-Sleep-Newborn/dp/0399166025/ref=nodl_ We used this method to sleep train our 6 month old daughter. It goes over weaning night feedings and check-ins for crying are never longer than 5 minutes! It’s a great book and I feel definitely suits all your criteria and needs.

Edit. If you don’t want to purchase the book, research sleep wave method.

Lots of good information in the comments on this thread. Like what /u/winterspan said, Ebola isn't really the disease to be worried about. With Ebola Zaire's mortality rate of up to 90%, it isn't very efficient at spreading because it kills its host so quickly and burns out.

If you're interested in learning more about Ebola, I'd highly recommend reading The Hot Zone. Stephen King called it one of the scariest books he's ever read and it looks like it's only $5 on Amazon.

EDIT: Here's a (kind of shitty) PDF version of The Hot Zone

I grow up in Reston and the lab that discovered it was later turned into a daycare center which many of my friends attended. As a nerdy fifth grader I listened to the audiobook of the [The Hot Zone] (http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story/dp/0385479565) a book about the virus and learned about the virus and the lab in Reston. As any good fifth grader I told all my friends that went to that daycare center that they have Ebola and will die soon. I think I own them an apology.

Whatever allows you to survive the first 6 weeks is all good.

Edited to add: This book saved me - showed me what was "normal" sleep patterns by week so I didn't feel like I was messing anything up. It then gives an indication of reasonable nap schedules once the baby is a little older. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345486455/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You can learn much much more in this detailed, but somewhat dry book:

https://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Insulin-Twenty-fifth-Anniversary/dp/0226058999

I thought it was interesting how little research was being done at the time due to previous premature claims of a cure. Very few scientists wanted to work on learning more about diabetes because the level of disdain for all the prior failed cures was carrying over into new research.

I was also somewhat disgusted by the credit-grabbing that went on after it was clear they really had something. Thankfully, the various egos involved didn't prevent progress on getting insulin ready for humans.

Finally-- a fun fact from this book: a "unit" of insulin today is directly related to the amount of insulin needed to make a fasting rabbit pass out. That was the method used in the early days to figure out how concentrated each batch of insulin was. Dosages would vary depending on how the rabbit tests worked out.

Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

If you are scientifically minded, it wouldn't hurt to pick up a book on virology, to really learn what "going viral" means and how it maps to biology. Here's what's on the top of Amazon for that topic:

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story-Origins/dp/0385479565/ref=zg_bs_16311221_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BQBE4ZZH0SS166VDGPEV

Further similar reading includes the book The Hot Zone. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385479565?pc_redir=1406834357&robot_redir=1

It's a great read.

Waterbeds! Uh no. Those would be a total hazard. You should really read this book about bedsharing to make sure your set up is safe. My lactation consultant recommended it to me.

From Kelly Starret's Deskbound:

“What about physio balls, BOSU balls, and kneeling chairs? We do not consider these to be great choices. While a bouncy ball does promote small movements with its constant instability, managing an organized spine for sustained periods is nearly impossible. Anyone on a ball chair will ultimately default to an end-range, tissue-limited shape as fatigue sets in or concentration is lost. The unstable surface accelerates postural decay and makes compensatory slouching or spinal overextension worse. Try to stand on a water bed for an hour and notice what happens. Add to this the fact that it is difficult to bear weight on your pelvis and not the soft tissues of your hamstrings. Most important, sitting on a ball is still sitting, with all of its pitfalls. While a kneeling chair does open up the hips, it provides limited dynamic sitting options and encourages spending time in an overextended shape. When it comes to sitting in a chair, your best bet is to go with a simple, rigid chair with a wide, semi-hard seat.”

I tend to trust K-Star on this kind of stuff. Of course, standing is even better than sitting, but if standing isn't an option, I'll often kneel at a standard-height desk (shifting between a one-knee-down lunge shape and a two knees down shape).

AIDS is worse because it goes unnoticed for so long. It takes around 21 days for symptoms to appear from Ebola. It kills the host too quickly.

Ebola is not an airborne illness. They need the body suits because the symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, and hemorrhaging. I highly recommend The Hot Zone if you're interested in educating yourself on the topic. It's also a good read just for entertainment.

Obviously I'm in late on this but I'm all for CIO. I have done it with both of my children and we are actually the envy of our other parent friends for having children that are on a predictible, healthy sleep schedule at 4 months old. 7 weeks is too early IMO, but at 4 months give it a shot. It's hard to let them cry at all, believe me I know, but we aren't talking an hour of crying. I used this book and this book to guide me. We did co-sleep until 4 months and then went into CIO (modified I suppose, but you'll see that in the books). Within 3 days my daughter was sleeping through the night at 4 months old. My son took about the same amount of time. My daughter is now 3 and still takes a midday nap and goes to bed around 8pm, sleeps through the night and wakes alert and happy. My son is 16 months and wakes up around 7am, naps at 10am-12:30pm, then again some days from 3:30-5:00pm, then goes down for the ENTIRE night at 7 or 8pm. We have video monitors so yes, I know they are sleeping.....not waking up crying and falling back asleep.

CIO gets a bad rep, but for us it has been wonderfully effective.

i'm sure you've heard of him, V.S. Ramachandran, he just wrote a book which focused on synesthesias. You should check him out if you don't already know about him. link to book

The book is available here for super cheap (used copies at least).

Btw, anyone who thought this article was interesting should read Complications by Atwul Gawande. It's hard to put down once you start and is like a penny on amazon.

For anyone who hasn't read it, The Hot Zone is an engaging look at Ebola, and I recommend it.

On a somewhat related note, I wonder how well Reston works as a vaccination against Zaire or other strains of Ebola?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/28/this-is-the-worst-ebola-outbreak-in-history-heres-why-you-should-be-worried/

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423

http://scgnews.com/the-ebola-zaire-outbreak-in-guinea-may-have-spread-to-liberia-but-dont-panic-just-yet

http://scgnews.com/man-with-ebola-symptoms-hospitalized-in-canada-after-returning-from-liberia

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000110003/study-new-strain-responsible-for-west-africa-ebola-outbreak

http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/guinea/

http://currents.plos.org/outbreaks/article/phylogenetic-analysis-of-guinea-2014-ebov-ebolavirus-outbreak-2/

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1404505?query=featured_home&&#t=article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/11000023/Expert-Ebola-will-reach-the-UK.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-20341423

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-outbreak-more-than-doctors-needed-to-contain-west-africa-s-unprecedented-crisis-1.2720882

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/10996489/Ebola-worst-ever-outbreak-shuts-Liberia-borders.html

http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/31/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385479565/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0385479565&linkCode=as2&tag=nindnetw-20
http://qz.com/242388/here-are-all-the-35-countries-one-flight-away-from-ebola-affected-countries/

Oh reading is like, so hard. Please give me a detailed report on all the sources cited, you know, to make sure you actually know how to read.

Sources for your illness only your doctor can give you, sorry!

The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is an excellent introduction to Ebola and the human response.

The Sleep Lady's Guide!! This book saved my life.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tell-Tale-Brain-Neuroscientists-Quest/dp/0393077829\

for fun

I enjoyed Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Sean Carroll

My favorite!

http://www.amazon.com/The-Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Origins/dp/0385479565

Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

The Undercover Economist: Easily the best of those "Economics in everyday life - books"

The Blank Slate: Steven Pinker on the nature/nurture debate. This really opened my eyes on questions like "Why are the same people who fight against abortion for the death penalty", for example.

Complications: This and his second book, Better, gave me an incredible insight into medicine.

Why we get sick: Very good explanation of the defence mechanisms our bodies have and why treating symptoms can be a very bad idea.

How to read a book: An absolute classic. Turns out I've been doing it wrong all those years.

The Art of Strategy: Game Theory, applied to everyday situations. Always treats a topic like Nash equilibrium, Brinkmanship etc. theoretically and then goes into many examples.

A Random Walk Down Wall-Street: Made me see the stock market completely differently.

The Myth of the Rational Voter: The shortcomings of democracy.

The White Man's Burden: Fantastic account of the problems faced by the third world today, and why it is so hard to change them.

If anyone is interested in learning more, try The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss (amazon link). The before/after pictures of diabetic children are horrifying and compelling. It also makes you think hard about what it means to test on animals.

Yes, as other posters have already said, you can do exercises to lower your voice w/o T. Here is a book on the subject you can check out if you're interested.

Check out this book! Everything about Herpes book

According to the book, HSV-1 is not so bad, outbreaks about 2-3 times a year. HSV-2 is worse with outbreaks every two weeks or a month. Also, about 50% of people over 14 years old has HSV-1 but most of them do not even know they have herpes. For about 50% of the people who do have HSV-1, they get an initial outbreak and never get it again. She is a good person to have informed you.

Anyways, my advice is to read the book.

I just want to say I really like this guy. Also check out Endless Forms Most Beautiful.

The Hot Zone is also another good read.
It's about an outbreak on US soil.

Deskbound by Kelly Starrett has made me feel much better at my desk job.

Hard Cover on this one could last a lifetime with proper care:

https://www.amazon.com/Deskbound-Standing-Up-Sitting-World/dp/1628600586

For anybody that want's to know more about Ebola and its origin I would suggest reading this book. Here's a link to one on Barnes and Nobles and Amazon.

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-hot-zone-richard-preston/1120492908?ean=9780385479561#/

https://www.amazon.com/Hot-Zone-Terrifying-Story-Origins/dp/0385479565/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526935867&sr=8-1&keywords=The+hot+zone

Big fan of Dawkins but one should also read Gould and others mentioned here (read as much as you can and make your own mind up ;-)... i find Sean Caroll's evo-devo stuff really fun to read and i think Dawkins touches on the developments in that field but Caroll (and probably others) get down and dirty in it: http://www.amazon.com/Endless-Forms-Most-Beautiful-Science/dp/0393327795

Many, many parents have a similar experience. I include myself in that category, and this period was one of the worst in my life. The way that you describe "ferberizing" as neglect makes me think that you haven't actually read Ferber's book. I strongly recommend that you do; the data and model of sleep that he describes will be useful even if you still reject his technique.

A similar, but less aggressive technique is described in this book which you may find more palatable.

I'd also recommend checking out deskbound from your library.

I think everyone in this thread would be well served to read Laurie Garrett's "The Coming Plague" and Robert Preston's "The Hot Zone".

That sounds like crazy talk. Never heard of office plants being a vector Legionnaire's disease before. Large quantities of stagnant water that become aerosolized is the commonly known and accepted vector for that.

Sounds like an excuse to make you get rid of the tree for whatever reason. But if you wanted to fight it, science is on your side here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease#Cause

House/office plants are actually good for air purity. Maybe order a copy of this book for whoever made that decision.

> genes responsible

do you have any idea how this works?

If you like that book, you might like this one. Written by a neuroscientist who's done work with phantom limbs, personality changes due to brain injury and other neurological oddities. His explanation of the brains various parts and functions blew my mind.

Hopefully it's not Ebola Zaire. Most outbreaks contain themselves as they kill more people than infect them. The Hot Zone is an excellent book if you want to learn about Ebola.

On Amazon, of course!

I currently have an audiobook playing in the background "The Hot Zone" http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0385479565?pc_redir=1411542636&robot_redir=1

fyi: book about Herpes

Rabid, The Demon in the Freezer, and The Ghost Map are all books I've found fascinating about various diseases.

I would second /u/Amprvector's suggestion of both The Emperor of all Maladies, and The Selfish Gene as well.

I can tell you why I don't want a spore: the likelihood that although it will start as a harmless prank modeling contagion, it will morph into a cortex-devouring, prion-spewing, ebola-like hemorrhagic fever whose pandemic leads to the zombification of the world.

It'll be like in 12 Monkeys, only whatever survivors remain won't see messages saying "we did it!", but instead arcane references to "orangered". And they'll probably still get trolled. Only by the zombies.

It's not horror, or even fiction, but check out The Hot Zone by Richard Preston

If you have already read his past books, then don't buy the new one. It's mostly a repetition of what he has already said, only with a few new ideas. Admittedly, his ideas about art are interesting but they are not the main subject of the new book and thus, are not that well developed.

For reference, this is the book.

Your first challenge is going to be sleep. This book is gold, worked on both of my kids:

http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-Sleep-Habits-Happy-Child/dp/0345486455/