Treasure in human waste
Author Bryn Nelson wrote an entire book about the ways that human waste can help humanity. Only some puns included.
Zoo inside you
Ed Yong’s I Contain Multitudes book lights a rare sort of fire. Prepare for ideas that catch and flame and race.
Scientists shovel dirt in book for parents
Should you wash the pacifier, if it falls on the ground, or should you lick it off and give it back to your child?
Centrifuge – smashing science into theater
What happens when an actor has to keep putting on a skull-cap, in order to look bald, over and over?
Man makes his microbes into research study
Richard Sprague keeps samples of his own feces, in the family freezer, so he can send them to a Stanford University laboratory.
Citizen science – Many hands make research work
Seattle area resident Laura James spends many hours each year piloting an underwater exploration robot beneath Puget Sound waves to count sea stars.
Tiny invisible bosses
Sometimes the scale of things makes all the difference. My microbes are invisible to my eyes, but increasingly important…
My bacteria and yours – telling stories
Small pictures of the microbes growing in my own gut, and in my own house, are filling my mind with questions.
Sharing my microbial fingerprints
Any day now, I’m going to get lab results I’ve been waiting months to know. They will tell me something about my deep insides.
