Behold the power of a bacterium and a high school kid and some yarn. Gavi Levy Haskell’s knitted bacterium (mentioned here yesterday, and a few days before that) today is featured on the home page of BMJ, one of the world’s great medical journals.
Tag: bacteria
How many microbes on/in a person?
Moelselio Schaechter and Stanley Maloy consider an old, and increasingly good question in the Small Things Considered blog: How often have you heard it said, or seen it stated in writing, that we carry ten times more microbial cells than cells of our own? We don’t dispute this figure, at least not as a ballpark […]
Knit Wit
The BMJ published this on September 22, 2010: Knit wit Zosia Kmietowicz No, it’s not a new character from a children’s television programme but a knitted interpretation of the bacterium Clostridium perfringens, which can cause gangrene. Gavi Levy Haskell, a high school student planning to study physics at university, came up with the idea of […]
A gallery of knitted bacteria
Investigators Geri Sullivan, Gavi Levy Haskell and Susan Levy Haskell have knitted a gallery full of bacteria, a few varieties of which are shown here. The undertook the project partly in honor of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, where the theme is BACTERIA and where everyone will be covered, one way or another, with […]