Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP) is a misnomer. The rare condition causes antibodies to destroy platelets important for blood clotting, and can produce symptoms of low platelet count, unusual haemorrhaging, including intracranial haemorrhage (rare but potentially life threatening), mucosal and gingival haemorrhaging, abnormal menstruation, petichiae, purpura and a general propensity to bruise easily. However, some patients …
The earliest known recorded crochet patterns where printed in 1824, and yet there is a great deal of evidence pointing to the fact that women particularly have been recording and sharing crochet patterns since well before then. While the exact origins of Crochet are unclear as the skill was originally word of mouth, Lis Paludan …
What do college students, the HuffPost, President Obama, the Israeli Consulate to the US, and Beanie Babies have in common? They all share a prominent place in the history of blogging. Since 1994 (yes, really, it’s been that long), blogs have been a part of the internet. From its very humble beginnings as a student …
The internet is a vast and beautiful entity that allows unprecedented access to information, the likes of which we have never seen before. Never before has one had as much access to knowledge as today, and that’s thanks to the internet. Not only is the internet a giant repository of information, accessible from something as …
In the 19 games of the series, the Guitar Hero Franchise was very successful even though it only lasted six years. Guitar Hero is a video game where one plays an instrument shaped controller along to pre-made track lists as if part of a rock band. From its startup in the United States in 2005, …
The internet is a relatively new invention but since it’s birth, it has changed the way we live. It has spawned hundreds of new industries, dramatically improved communication times, and created millions of new jobs, particularly in developing nations. One of those hundreds of new industries that are responsible for thousands of jobs is website …