The nature of food poisoning

Food poisoning is an excellent topic because it leads you to discover the nature of the microbes behind it. Food poisoning is not a single type of ocurrence. The multi-faceted phenomenon entails a wide variety of microbes, each with their own ecological qurks.

Bacillus cereus is a species of bacteria that defies some of the commonest advice that you hear about how to avoid food poisoning. If enough of these Bacillus cereus bacteria grow on your food successfully, cooking won’t save you from harm. You might kill them off after they have aready lacd your food with potent toxins.

“The spores of some species (especially Bacillus cereus and the ‘ Bacillus subtilis ‘ group) survive cooking and can subsequently germinate and grow under favourable conditions, particularly those in warm kitchens.” (from HPA website)

Nursing Schools blog article: www.nursingschools.net/blog/2011/05/the-12-most-common-causes-of-food-poisoning

UK NHS… intro: Intro: nhs.uk/conditions/food-poisoning and causes: nhs.uk/Conditions/Food-poisoning/Pages/Causes

Fencing: the 2012 Olympics

Despite the high achievements of fencers like Kruse and Halsted, and the efforts of the British Fencing National Academy

the BBC reports ‘low expectations’…

Bringing in the kids

Zidane in fencing advert

snow steel sheep

Simple Quicktime panoramas

Canon makes it simple with the stitch special function on their compact cameras – plus their Photostitch software. When you’ve stitched your photos together you ‘save as’ a QT file. THAT’S IT.

When you think about it, actually these interactive 180°or 360° panoramic images are a form of animation.

Here’s a basic panorama I did… (web embedded)