Microbiology is one of the few professions that motivates you to wash your hands before you go to the bathroom.
Learning about all the bugs that live in your hair and eyebrows made me lose a few nights of sleep.
Make like the medieval times, always be drunk.
Is this like learning that the splash from your toilet bowl sprinkles a bit of water on your toothbrush? Essentially a pure infohazard that makes tour life worse with no benefit?
Just like the bacteria in drinking water, you can't see it, taste it or perceive it in any way and it poses no relevant health risks. Your bathroom is flooded with poop particles even if you close the lid before flushing. It's just a fun fact and nothing to worry about, really.
The benefit is learning to close the lid before you flush. If you flush unlidded anyway... that's gross.
You keep your toothbrush in the bathroom?
kinda behooves one to filter then, huh?
Ignorance is bliss
knowledge is a curse. and yet we seek it. we must enjoy pain
Hurt me more, daddy
One Parasitology course changed me and the way I perceived the world forever. Parasitology: not even once
What did it ruin for you?
Any body of water, so lakes, swimming pools, the ocean are packed with parasites. Food, a lot of it has parasites in it, we just cook them to death first. Worms in the dirt. My own bed. The list goes on.
Glasses of water
Did anyone's elses teacher drop a small amount of sea water on their head, then he put a drop underneath a microscope, causing everyone to collectively freak out? That was mostly plankton, though.
What do you think about my unfiltered spring water
Bruh. Our well had a fish living (and dying) in it for a while. The human body can handle some weird stuff.
As a chemist, I'd say it's great for watering decorative plants and flushing the toilet.
“A glass of water when Norton accidentally refunded you 4000USD instead of 400”
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