Just a quick post here. There is a new CNN story that may be of interest. An antibiotic-resistant superbug will launch from the same pad where the first manned mission to the moon lifted off to be studied on the International Space Station. Source: Why NASA is sending a superbug to the space station – …
This is just really really cool and even though it is not about microbes, since it is about the built environment I thought I would share it here: Meet your invisible roommates by Thom Patterson on CNN.Com. The article is about the work of Daniel Kariko at East Carolina University. Kariko refers to the work as Suburban …
UPDATE 1 by Jonathan Eisen on May 18, 2014. I have flagged this post as being offensive (see comments for more detail). The author has now lost his permission to post directly without screening and am considering deleting this post (due to the tone of this post and other posts). I am for now leaving it up …