The World of Microbes: Where Life Began in the dirt or ice or volcanic medium

TOO MUCH CUTENESS

11 Reasons to Love Bacteria, Fungi and Spores

From medicines to jet fuel, we have so many reasons to celebrate the microbes we live with every day

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the Funny Side of Washing Your Hands

Posted onMay 2, 2015by dykewriter

The most effective time to wash your hands is BEFORE you go to the bathroom – so you remove all the germs you have picked up, before you touch your genitals. Washing again afterwards is courtesy and rightfully required by … Continue reading →

Agoraphobic Outing: Eyes and Hands

Posted on March 11, 2015 by dykewriter

Before I left the house to take my Mom hunting and gathering at the grocery store, I commented on a news item about breast feeding.   Like most of the public, I am against it. It lacks dignity and opens … Continue reading →

How to wash your hands

Posted on May 12, 2013 by dykewriter

As an Emergency Preparedness Professional, the issue of hand washing came up a lot in pandemic planning and regular flu season, basic hygiene and quite frankly… manners.   At one department, I had this image printed on a full size … Continue reading →

Want to improve health? wash your hands

Posted on January 12, 2014 by dykewriter

Micro flora and fauna also known as bacteria, viruses, germs, bugs… microscopic disease causing critters that outnumber and outbreed humans. They can create a new generation every 20 human minutes and there is no human research and development that can … Continue reading →

National Handwriting Day

Posted on January 23, 2014 by dykewriter

This article inspired me to do this post that I have been avoiding. http://mentalfloss.com/article/33508/4-benefits-writing-hand Today is National Handwriting Day. Handwriting is something that I used to do a lot of, mostly in school and my own writing. Once computers became … Continue reading →

Handedness and Speech Impediments

Posted on September 17, 2013 by dykewriter

handedness. Most people are right handed and once upon a time in Europe, left handedness was enough to get you killed as being evil. So the pressure to conform to the majority has been a long standing human tradition. Shunning … Continue reading →

How to wash your hands

Posted on May 12, 2013 by dykewriter

As an Emergency Preparedness Professional, the issue of hand washing came up a lot in pandemic planning and regular flu season, basic hygiene and quite frankly… manners.   At one department, I had this image printed on a full size … Continue reading →