Worth Reading: Warning Bells, Burn Pits, and Sewer Mysteries

A few of the recent pieces I've liked (or, in the case of the first item, found horribly disturbing but important):

Maryn McKenna at Superbug: Ringing the Warning Bell: Colistin-Resistant Klebsiella

J. Malcolm Garcia in Guernica: Smoke Screen ("In Afghanistan, the U.S. military disposes of garbage--computers, motorbikes, TVs, shoes, even human feces--in open burn pits. Are toxic clouds from these sites making everyone sick?" Bonus: Celeste is quoted in the article.)

The New York Times' Room for Debate: Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor?

Helen Branswell at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting: A Mystery in the Sewers (part of the Sewage Science: Stalking a Threat to Polio Eradication in the World's Sewers project)

Scicurious at Neurotic Physiology: And then the smokers came for your sperm ...

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The Chesapeake Watershed in the eastern U.S.
I have what some might think is an unhealthy interest in sewers. It's not really unhealthy, because, as I never tire of telling Mrs.
A black four door older model caddy in need of some body work and a new muffler turned into our street. The car drove quickly but furtively, the driver seeming to not quite know where she wanted to go, to the end of the faux cul-du-sac off of which each development's street radiated.
This is bizarre....White rats pop up in toilets