...someone makes an animated cartoon about it. Charlie Foster sends us this clever little animation about the human gut microbiome, narrated by 'Barry fragilis' (Barry is, of course, short for Bacteroides). Anyway, enjoy:
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Can't blog ... grading papers. But, to honor Lawrence Summers' retirement from fair Harvard, here's a musing from one year ago today:
By David Michaels
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
-Barry Commoner
Pharyngula got a small link from Dave Barry today. It's one word ("YIKES", which seems appropriate), but I have a dream that someday I will get a whole sentence.
That's um... neat? Or creepy. I'm going with creepy.