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Baby’s Must-See TV Does Not Increase Vocabulary
In 1997, the BBC launched Teletubbies, a controversial education program aimed specifically at children under the age of 4. In a bid to win over its presumed audience, the show affixed its main...
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Stinky Pete, the Prospector
Walter Huston is best known for his character Howard the prospector in the 1948 film Treasure of the Sierra Madre (its line, “Badges? We ain’t got no badges” has landed itself in the halls of pop...
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Bad-Rap Eddy
Like a troubled celebrity whose splayed misgivings reel us into a state of unending discomfort, when real problems supersede glamour, Echerichia coli (Bad-Rap Eddy) is all too familiar. But like the...
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Space-Age Conan the Bacterium
In 1956, professor Arthur W. Anderson experimented with food sterilization by dousing canned meat with large quantities of gamma radiation. Despite an unusually high dosage, a potent microbe killer,...
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Cyano de Bergerac
“Both genius and monster, unique, unexplainable. He has every quirk and every virtue obtainable” mused Ragueneau in Edmond Rostand’s bio-play, Cyrano de Bergerac. Though the play is built around the...
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Slick Willy
Ads for commercial cleansers portray bacteria as ominous globs lingering in the darkened corners of our homes. Yet some strains of bacteria actually aid in greening our environment. “Slick Willy,” or...
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The Torpedo
Bell Biv DeVoe, R&B spin-off group from the early 1990s, hit it big with smash single, “Poison.” Chances are that while the group crooned “Girl, I must warn you,” it was unaware of the predatory...
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The Vibrio Family
The world is cold, bitter place for the unfortunate few who have not seen Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. Parodies don’t quite make sense; quotations from the film echo in lost cause; and the...
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Vanilla Ice
Who hasn’t heard of Vanilla Ice? Adapting the rhythmic underpinnings of the Queen/David Bowie duet “Under Pressure,” Mr. Ice created a snappy rap song destined for top 40 success, radio replay — and...
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Little L
If the probiotic movement is a shiny discotheque, Lactobacillus, or Little L, would be the glamorous VIP whose celebrity moves velvet ropes. Lactobacillus is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium...
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Smelliot
“Hey, everybody! She’s cool with ‘Smelliot,’” chimes ne’er-do-well, John Dorian from TV’s Scrubs. Everyone knows a Smelliot. Smelliot was the social outcast in grade school burdened by his parents with...
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Top Ten Bacteria Working in the Shadows
Childhood was a hazy mix of lace and mud — an age of cookie time, horseplay and the occasional cootie shot. It seems like a far cry from the fettered world of adulthood. But there were darker forces at...
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Power Poses Really Work
How strong is the power of suggestion? For researchers in the field of embodied cognition—the study of the mind as it relates to and influences the body—suggestion is a force to be reckoned with....
View ArticleMore Reasons Not to Skip Your Broccoli
Though the upcoming holidays signal mass poultry-cide in the name of family togetherness, recent findings in the journal Food & Function might very well change the way we gobble, with more green...
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Enamored with Enamel
Having navigated Halloween and now facing Thanksgiving in the United States, and with the December holidays around the corner worldwide, the annual battle of tooth versus sugary treat has begun....
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Slick Willy
Ads for commercial cleansers portray bacteria as ominous globs lingering in the darkened corners of our homes. Yet some strains of bacteria actually aid in greening our environment. “Slick Willy,” or...
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The Torpedo
Bell Biv DeVoe, R&B spin-off group from the early 1990s, hit it big with smash single, “Poison.” Chances are that while the group crooned “Girl, I must warn you,” it was unaware of the predatory...
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The Vibrio Family
The world is cold, bitter place for the unfortunate few who have not seen Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy. Parodies don’t quite make sense; quotations from the film echo in lost cause; and the...
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Vanilla Ice
Who hasn’t heard of Vanilla Ice? Adapting the rhythmic underpinnings of the Queen/David Bowie duet “Under Pressure,” Mr. Ice created a snappy rap song destined for top 40 success, radio replay — and...
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Little L
If the probiotic movement is a shiny discotheque, Lactobacillus, or Little L, would be the glamorous VIP whose celebrity moves velvet ropes.Lactobacillus is a gram-positive, rod-shaped bacterium native...
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