Germ Theory and the Five-Second Rule
Automated disclaimer: This post was written more than 15 years ago and I may not have looked at it since.
Older posts may not align with who I am today and how I would think or write, and may have been written in reaction to a cultural context that no longer applies. Some of my high school or college posts are just embarrassing. However, I have left them public because I believe in keeping old web pages alive—and it's interesting to see how I've changed.
The truth of the surface of a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endospore">endospore, a survival mechanism that will keep the organism safe through heat, cold, radiation, digestive enzymes, starvation, and dessication. As soon as the potato chip falls, the copious grease on its surface entraps these helpless bacteria (and some of the surface of a millennium ago.
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