The inaugural edition of the Carnival of the Animalcules is up. It's almost lunchtime, though, and you might want to wait until after you've eaten…especially before reading the one about fast-food toilet water.
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I tagged Ethan Zuckerman's post abpout video "windows" to other places in a links dump recently.
Fast-food workers in several Midwestern cities and New York held one-day strikes last week to protest poverty wages.
This is pretty common knowledge, but it's nice to see it supported by data:
In `food deserts' of city, healthy eating a mirage:
A few of the recent pieces I've liked:
Robin Fields at ProPublica: In Dialysis, Life-Saving Care at Great Risk and Cost
Yuck!!!!!!
Hmm, so I guess my dogs have had the right idea all this time.
"Hmm, so I guess my dogs have had the right idea all this time."
Remember to drink the recommended amount to stay hydrated--eight bowls a day!
Don't the types of bacteria involved matter too?
Don't the types of bacteria involved matter too?
Are you implying that we should discriminate based on innate differences?
Somehow, though, I doubt that the student in question has given up drinking (iced) soft drinks at fast-food restuarants and started making ice from toilet water at home.
Bacteria rule the Earth. Some estimates put the total biomass of bacteria as greater than the biomass of everything else. So, yeah, you're going to find bacteria everywhere. But most of it isn't interested in human beings, even when we're dead, let alone walking around with active immune systems.
So, there's bacteria in fast food ice. The question is, how much of it is pathogenic?
I'd like to see that study repeated for doorknob handles and telephone recievers.
I'd like to see that study repeated for doorknob handles and telephone recievers.
They'd be immaculate, I'd presume - doorknob handle and telephone receiver cleaning are the oldest professions, after all.