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...Squatting is hard on the thigh muscles, and no one, let alone the busy Harvard Man, has time to stand in a stall carefully placing individual toilet paper squares around the perimeter of the seat. Thankfully, the good folks at Lamont Library have already recognized the need for these germ blocking devices. Here’s hoping the rest of the University follows suit...
...contact, coughing, food handling by people with infections such as hepatitis, sharing utensils, or sharing needles,” writes Gharib. Popular Science Magazine seconds Gharib, confirming that illnesses like influenza and strep throat can’t make the leap from the seat to your immune system. Your germ-phobe mom wasn’t totally wrong, though. The New York University Medical Center’s website lists “toilet seats” among the risk factors for pediculosis pubis, commonly known as pubic lice. Don’t let this news get you crabby?...
...nine gallons of water per flush. “When you save water you are saving additional resources because it takes energy and resources to run the water treatment plants,” Phillips said. In addition to dual flushing actions, the new bright green handles are more germ resistant and come with flushing instructions on the wall. But Phillips admitted there may be a gray area between solid and liquid waste. “What happens with the 1.1 gallons—it tends to displace the contents of the bowl rather than force the contents down the waste...
...Mantle would have had his leg and future baseball career amputated if not for penicillin. Thousands of wounded soldiers would not have returned home from World War II. But the battlefields around us have changed. We have quietly entered a new era of antibiotic resistance, and the rules of germ warfare are changing as fast as military tactics. The next generation of patients, scientists, and drug therapy must be prepared to fight battles which will be waged microscopically as well as deep in our throats, skin, hearts and bones...
...Documentaries need self-dramatizers, and being a diva was Jack Smith?s art and life. At the start of Mary Jordan?s irresistible doc Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, the artist?s reedy voice is heard intoning, "Doctor, doctor, tell me, please, / Is my brain a germ or a disease?" Late in life, he says of his work: "I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [Now he shouts:] They didn...