US-based inventor Peter Delgrosso points out that consuming finger foods can sometimes be a hygienically suboptimal process – with a (timely) reminder that, in the act of eating finger foods ; “Germs, bacteria, and other harmful elements (e.g., microorganisms, viruses, chemicals, etc.) on our hands and fingers can then make their way into the body.” […]
Tag: germs
Bacteria Exchanged Via Osculation
What bacteria are exchanged when two people kiss? That question is addressed in studies that are profiled in the special kissing issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. One of those studies was honored with an Ig Nobel Prize last year.
Trading typhoid with your towels
* * * We’ve probably all wondered, when drying our hands… this is supposedly a net transfer of germs from us to the towel, but at what point does the towel become so filth-riddled that we are now transferring germs from the towel to us? An early investigation of this was done in the American […]
Anything Causes Everything (Depressing)
Today’s classroom exercise: Decide whether the technique used in this study can be used to prove that any particular thing can cause any other particular thing: “Inflammation, Sanitation, and Consternation — Loss of Contact With Coevolved, Tolerogenic Microorganisms and the Pathophysiology and Treatment of Major Depression,” AUTHORS: Charles L. Raison, MD; Christopher A. Lowry, PhD; […]