Just improve yourself, that is all you can do to improve the world.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile

- 'Henry V' play by William Shakespeare

بديهية خاصة بأي شعب يحاول ان يرتقي بنفسه، هي ان يأخذ المعارف التي تحرّك عالمه من الشعوب الحيّة الصانعة لها، بغية ان يصل لمرتبتها.
افشل البلدان هي التي يكثر رجالها من تأليف الكتب لتمجيد ازمنتهم الغابرة، ويتركوا ما لدى الشعوب المتحضّرة من معارف. بل يشيطنوها.
على اساس هذا، اهم مهنة معرفية بالنسبة لنا هي الترجمة.
المترجم هو اهم مثقّف.
المترجم هو ربان هذه الامّة
سلامة البصيرة لديه هي الأهم.

- اللوحة لقدّيس المترجمين، القديس جيروم مترجم الكتاب المقدّس إلى الاتينية.
في يوم الترجمة العالمي.

Here's a practically useless information:

Why paracetamol is not a NSAID?

Cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes have 2 subunits: a cyclooxygenase subunit, and a peroxidase subunit.

Most NSAIDs work by inhibiting the cyclooxygenase subunit, and therefore, they inhibit the prostaglandin production and produce their anti-inflammatory and analgesic effect.

Acetamenophin on the other hand, works by inhibiting the peroxidase subunit. Therefore, in sites of inflammation, where peroxide is elevated, acetamenophin loses its ability to inhibit COX enzymes, and as a result, fails as an anti-inflammatory agent but not as an analgesic. This is because the drug is still able to inhibit COX enzymes in the pain centers of the CNS to reduce pain.

NSAIDs and hypertension

NSAIDs and acetamenophin are known to have hypertensive effect, possibly because they decrease sodium excretion in the kidneys and cause volume expansion.
They are also known to decrease the efficacy of anti-hypertensive drugs except for calcium-channel blockers (CCPs), and possibly also beta-blockers (BBs). So in patients with chronic NSAIDs use, treat them with CCPs or BBs as a 1st-line therapy for hypertension.

My German engineer, I think, is a fool. I asked him to admit that there was not a rhinoceros in the room, but he wouldn’t.

أكثر النقاشات اللامنطقية هي نقاشات علماء المنطق

He has the artist’s feeling that he will produce the perfect thing or nothing.

- Bertrand Russell, describing Wittgenstein

Whenever I'm sad i go watch Tom Wambsgans eating Logan Roy's chicken and life instantly becomes better

He ate my fucking chicken

Aortoenteric fistula (AEF)

Basically when your aorta opens up into your duodenum... which, you know, it shouldn't do that...

The ticking bomb that we call "aortic aneurysm"

"behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution"

- Walter Benjamin