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‡We are actually getting worse at some matters of hygiene. Dr. Maunder believes that the move toward low-temperature washing machine detergents has encouraged bugs to proliferate. As he puts it: “If you wash lousy clothing at low
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“Make no mistake. This is a planet of microbes. We are here at their pleasure. They don’t need us at all. We’d be dead in a day without them.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“That means that a 150-gram serving of white rice or a small bowl of cornflakes will have the same effect on your blood glucose levels as nine teaspoons of sugar.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family,” his father wrote in a line that nearly always appears just about here in any review of Darwin’s early life.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“No less bizarrely, the Italian anatomist Gabriele Falloppio (after whom the Fallopian tubes are named) was given a criminal who was still alive with instructions to put him down in the manner that best suited his purposes. Falloppio and the criminal together appear to have opted for a comparatively humane overdose of opiates.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
“There’s a really easy way to do food shopping in supermarkets,” he says. “Just stick to the outside aisles. The aisles in between are almost entirely filled with processed foods. If you stick to the outside, you will automatically have a healthier diet.”
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
― The Body: A Guide for Occupants
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