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  1. I think you spelled ‘Thingie’ wrong. I’ve always seen it with ‘ie’.

    And don’t forget the bugs in your gut. When scientists changed the colony of bacteria in the gut of some lab rodents, they gained (or lost) weight. I was sick a while back and on antibiotics for months. Ever since then, I’ve digested dairy differently, not well, just differently. You don’t really want the details. Trust me, though. It’s different now.

  2. This post puts me in mind of the Lewis Thomas book, “Lives of a Cell”, which if I recall correctly, rather stressed symbiosis as a rhetorical device to get us to connect with mother Earth. His wonder at nature was something to behold.

  3. Bacteria are so ubiquitous that you can find them in the hot core of nuclear reactor, in rocks hundred meters deep under sea floor and everywhere you look for them. And they still are orders of magnitude more complex than all human-made devices. And, the most surprising fact for non-biologists: these power stations inside every animal cell that allow us to breath – who actually breath for us – mitochondria – are bacteria, too.

  4. Isn’t the surge of autoimmune diseases due in part to the supersanitary environment of our modern world?

  5. Gack! I see you still can’t resist linking to the GnuYawkTimes. I hate that place! They must be regularly scrubbing logins from bugmenot.com, because I can’t get any of them to work anymore. What a pain in their elitist ass I must be!

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