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.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
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.