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Tech NewsAmazonInjuries at Amazon Warehouses Are Staggering, the Company’s Own Reports Show
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting released a massive report Tuesday morning detailing how Amazon has been hiding the true extent of warehouse workforce injuries for the last several years. Reveal obtained a trove of internal safety reports and weekly injury numbers from more than 150 of Amazon’s nationwide network of fulfillment, sortation, and … Continued
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ScienceHealthA Man’s Penis Started Rotting After Getting Bitten During Sex
A harrowing medical case reported by doctors this month should remind everyone to keep their teeth away from each other’s genitals. It details how an accidental love bite during sex left a man’s penis on the verge of rotting away, though thankfully doctors intervened in time to save it. The 43-year-old man visited the emergency … Continued
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ScienceHealthE-Bikes Riskier to Ride Than E-Scooters and Bikes, Study Suggests
People riding electric-powered bikes are more likely to risk serious injury than those on conventional bikes and motorized scooters, according to a recent study. But e-scooters have their own unique health risks, too. The research, published this November in the journal Injury Prevention, looked at data on injuries caused by consumer products collected by the … Continued
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io9A Set Injury Might Mean Major Delays for Cowboy Bebop
John Cho, oh no! The star of the upcoming Netflix live-action version of Cowboy Bebop has had an on-set mishap, and it could mean that the series is a lot later than we thought it would be. As reported by Variety, Cho, while filming a scene in New Zealand, sustained a serious knee injury. Due … Continued
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ScienceHealthBeing Drunk and Helmet-less Is a Recipe for E-Scooter Disaster
The e-scooter craze has been convenient for some, annoying to others, and painful or even deadly to an unlucky few. A new study out Thursday seems to highlight some of the (perhaps obvious) common factors behind e-scooter accidents: being drunk or otherwise intoxicated and not wearing a damn helmet. Researchers in California—the state where the … Continued
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ScienceHealthDoctors Warn of Fires Caused by Generic Phone Chargers
Your bargain phone charger can come with a hidden cost—as one 19-year-old woman unfortunately had to find out. According to her doctors, the woman’s generic phone charger likely started a fire around her neck that left her with serious burns and sent her to the emergency room. Now they’re warning people to be wary of … Continued
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ScienceHealthThe E-Scooter Craze Is Sending Lots of People to the ER, Often With Head Injuries
Electric scooters have become wildly popular, thanks to single-named companies like Bird, Scoot, and Lime creating easy-to-ride, if legally iffy, scooter rental services in cities across the U.S. But a new study out Friday is seemingly the first to quantify a drawback to these convenient devices: lots of riders are getting hurt and ending up … Continued
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A Bullet to the Knee Gave a Man Lead Poisoning, 14 Years Later
As if getting shot weren’t bad enough, a bullet that stayed lodged in a man’s knee gave him lead poisoning and a nasty bout of arthritis—a whopping 14 years after it first found him. The curious medical tale was published as a case study Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, as part of … Continued
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Nearly 10,000 U.S. Kids a Year Are Attacked by Soup
Kids are not great at eating. They make messes and miss their mouths, and knock full cups and plates off the table. It’s sometimes funny, but it’s less funny when the food is hot and burns a kid bad enough to send them to the emergency room. And that happens a lot—nearly half of serious … Continued
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Serious Injuries Are More Likely to Be Fatal for People With O Blood Type
The thing we’re most likely to not know when filling out a government form—our blood type—might mean the difference between life and death following a traumatic injury, a new study published Tuesday in Critical Care suggests. Researchers in Tokyo looked over the medical records of over 900 patients who had visited one of two emergency … Continued
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New Evidence Shows Even Mild Concussions Can Raise Risk for Dementia
One of fiction’s most commonly used plot devices—a knock on the head used to render someone momentarily unconscious—is a lot more harmful in the real world. A new study published this week in The Lancet Psychiatry reaffirms that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), even those that are relatively mild, are linked to a higher risk of … Continued
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Crashing Into Boiling Water and Other Ways Hoverboards Send Thousands of Kids to the Hospital Each Year
When it comes to hoverboard injuries, it’s tempting to think a good portion of them are severe burns caused by those overheating battery packs. New research shows this is very much not the case, and that each year around 13,500 kids are treated in US hospital emergency rooms after falling from their hoverboards. That amounts … Continued
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Tech News
The Surprising Way a Confederate Submarine Crew Died at the Hands of Its Own Weapon
During the latter stages of the American Civil War, the H.L. Hunley made history by becoming the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship. The Confederate crew never returned from its mission, sparking a mystery that’s lasted for over 130 years. An exhaustive new analysis suggests these pioneering submariners didn’t drown or suffocate as … Continued
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John F. Kennedy Lived With More Pain Than We Realized
A re-evaluation of JFK’s health history and medical records paints a portrait a man who had to endure a surprising amount of physical discomfort throughout his short life. As president, he did his best to hide his misery from the public—no small miracle, given just how much pain he was forced to endure. On January … Continued
