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Mario Vittone
Personal blog · mariovittone.com · on HN as MarioVsciencehealth
Mario Vittone's personal blog at mariovittone.com covers science and health. Since 2010, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning”. The last post was in 2013, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog mainly for "Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning", a post on how drowning appears in reality. It is often cited in threads on water safety and related topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-07-06
- Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-03-04
- /2010/10/1-10-1/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-02-11
What Hacker News says?
In France there is four times more deaths from suicide than deaths in a car crash. Yet we have countless cops constantly roaming around, and millions spent on automated speed cameras, in the name of a policy vowed to reduce "unacceptable" life losses, but ignores the fact that 32k people actually die here per year out of sheer helplessness and despair. Somehow I can't help but think that people up there are missing…
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21”Submitted Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning as a story · 611 points
HN discussionDrowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning [1] has gone round the internet a number of times over the last decade. Well worth reading if you spend time around water, and a good read in any case. [1] https://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “Spot the Drowning Child (2015)”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 217 points
HN discussionRelevant to the part about 'drowning': Drowning doesn't look like drowning ( http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/ ) In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening. Drowning does not look like drowning
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “In 1957, Five Men Agreed to Stand Under an Exploding Nuclear Bomb (2012)”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 151 points
HN discussionThere's a video linked at the end of the article: http://mariovittone.com/2011/07/video-of-instinctive-drownin...
Comment linking /2011/07/video-of-instinctive-drowning-response/
on “How to know when someone is in trouble in the water”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning as a story · 127 points
HN discussionInterestingly, that's not because you'll get a thermal shock that will kill you. The body is surprisingly good at maintaining temperature for a while after being plunged in icy cold stuff. The problem is, it's so good at it, that it will block off the arteries to your legs and arms to stop them from leaking so much heat (better survive without limbs than die with them), and you'll drown because you can't swim. As fa…
Comment linking /2010/10/1-10-1/
on “Microsoft just bought Nokia for $0”Submitted Avoiding and Escaping Rip Currents as a story · 21 points
HN discussionIt's interesting they only focus on the cold shower. I would have thought it would be short and barely give you enough time to get over the initial shock(cold shock response) - around a minute or so when the gag reflex hits and what would potentially drown you in open water. After that shock, things change. My personal experience is with swimming in the sea year round for 3 to 4 years. 2 to 3 times a week every week…
Comment linking /2010/10/1-10-1/
on “The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Controlled Trial”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning as a story · 16 points
HN discussionRelated, Drowning doesn’t look like drowning , https://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “The Dangers of Low Head Dams (2019)”Submitted Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning as a story · 6 points
HN discussionArguably, there is a minimum threshold that needs to be exceeded in order to even make these evaluation Arguably? How many separate things are there in the world that kill 5 or more people in the US each year? An awful lot. IIRC the number of people killed in newspaper related accidents in the UK is about that high. Society only has so much attention, people only spend so much time learning about the world every day…
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “Bruce Schneier: Drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events”Submitted Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionConsider this before you do. Some time ago, I saw another article on HN that I value greatly: Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning [1]. At face value, drowning and slavery -- maybe more aptly, revolution -- don't have much to do with startup culture, but there is a more valuable lesson that is shared between them. As entrepreneurs we are constantly on the lookout for success and failure. However, just like drowning a…
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “How Slavery Really Ended in America”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYeah it's public domain, originally https://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/
Comment linking /2010/05/154/
on “Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2021)”Submitted Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drowning doesn't look like Drowning. as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Summer Reminder – Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning (2010) as a story · 1 points
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