No thanks. I’ll stick to my Gin and Tonics for malaria prevention.
Hbd 2 uu
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Bluewing@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
How is her name hard to sing Happy Birthday to? You only have to say her name once in the song.
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“Happy birthday to Tu Youyou, happy birthday to you”
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
But that isn’t how the song is sung.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 day ago
It’s quite funny if you don’t think too much about it.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
Depending on whether Tu or Youyou is her “first” name for the song it will be:
“Happy birthday to Tu”
Or
“Happy birthday to Youyou”
Both have repetition that is likely to trip up a lot of people.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 5 hours ago
East Asian, China.
So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).
sbeak@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
In Chinese, the first character (Tu) is the family name while the following character(s) are the given name (Youyou).
p.s. the “ou” sound in Chinese is pronounced more like an “o” rather than than an “ooh”, so the joke doesn’t really work (not quite, but it’s close enough. I’m not very good at speaking Mandarin so take this with a slight grain of salt)
ascend@lemmy.radio 1 day ago
People always get mixed up regardless, people refer to people by different names like nicknames or relationship like ‘mom’ so when you get to the name part its always some funny mix
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, either way if you are signing Happy Birthday to her, you likely know her well enough to know her name well and sing it with no problem.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Tu is her first name, and it’s “dear”, not “to”. So it would be “Happy birthday, dear Tu”.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 1 day ago
I think you might end up saying it about 4 times on accident.
velma@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We can’t acknowledge that, then we wouldn’t be able to ignore her amazing discovery and make fun of her name instead!
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
“It would be hard to sing Happy Birthday to her if you purposely sang the song incorrectly!”
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Very cool approach, they systematically tested old folk recopies it sounds like: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou#Malaria
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Saving you a click
One compound was particularly effective, sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), which was used for “intermittent fevers,” a hallmark of malaria.
Relatively easy to find herb. I have some in my tea cabinet, turns out I’ve been ruining it all along.
Mac@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Screenshot of a screenshot lol
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Butterbee@beehaw.org 16 hours ago
x0x7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The internet is a series of screenshots.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I thought it was pipes
placebo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
What if our universe is just a series of screenshots, a GIF.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 hours ago
the plant is called artemesia anna, which artemesins and deratives come from. plasmodium in some population are largely resistant to it now, but not the whole plant extract though, although its unclear how it overcomes resistance.
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 day ago
Am I wrong to be paranoid that if corporations found out about plants that could cure this or that disease forever, that they may destroy those plants to maintain a money faucet for treatments (as in not permanent cures)?
tetris11@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Hard to contain a plant and a cure like this. Science has a weird way of several people discovering the same thing around the same time.
It’s like the conditions that made it probable for one person to discover it are the same conditions that make it probable for 10 people to discover it.
Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Capitalist countries are certainly incentivized to
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
That’s just stupid. You can make a million selling some medication each month for the rest of a patients life, and simultantiously sell the cure for 2 million to the rich patients.
bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
Fun fact, her first name Yōuyōu is pronounced more like “yo” than “you”
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s like that old joke about traditional herbal remedies.
You know what they called traditional herbal remedies that actually work?
Medicine.
josephc@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Also left out of the headlines: she exhaustively tested thousands of traditional herbal remedies, not just one. She kept the one that worked.
Deebster@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Dara Ó Briain does a great bit on this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNQqCCOoZ8