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Saturday, March 8, 2008

Don't Eat the Snow!

Some kids wonder why they shouldn't eat the snow, well heres why. It contains lots of bacteria called Pseudomonas Syringae.But it is also common so its not any worse than dirt.

3 comments:

Marek Bennett said...

Aiden --

I don't know, my cousin Jeff used to come up from Texas and he was so excited to see snow! He would eat it and eat it and eat it and eat it all day long, and it never made him sick.

It's cool to know about more bacteria, though! I love the idea of bacteria filling the sky above us. They really are the dominant life form on earth, in some ways.

Here's a related article from NPR.org:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87761584

-- Marek

Zak A. said...

I loved the post about the bacteria. I'm not to sure my cousin Janey will be to happy to find out about the bacteria though! This article offered up a good lesson to learn about bacteria, and snow.

Anonymous said...

good post but you should put more detals on it.