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by Joe Weaver - October 7th, 2009.Filed under: Learning. Tagged as: class, fun, microbiology.
All water is poo water. Unless you want your guts eaten, your brain eaten, or cysts in your tissues, don’t swim and stick to beer.
October 13th, 2009 at 22:24
oh yay, you’ve gotten to the “scare the sh*t out of the undergrads that there are germs everywhere” portion of the micro class. Good times!
October 21st, 2009 at 1:43
This reminds me of the “marine snow” nutrient resource you learn about in Marine Ecology. It’s supposed to be gross, but the notion of all that fish feces and decomposing bits and other bits slowly drifting down to the abyssal plain while zooplankton picks it out like fruit in jello is always a really relaxing mental image for me.
October 21st, 2009 at 10:38
It’s cool stuff. Environmental resource cycling is deeply pleasing.