Hey, geeks (or people like us?): it's National Grammar Day. [National Grammar Day] We were totally pissed we missed this last year and we're actually considering entering this time. It's the third annual Peeps Diorama Contest! [Washington Post] Barbie got a tramp stamp! [Jossip] Justin T...

Didn't you hear the news that beer pong can give you herpes? While news organizations around the country let the story die, one man refuses to give up on it.  The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Beer Pong Herpes Outbreak Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Rap Battle Jo...

Small businesses can be hit hard in a big recall, as they rarely have a staff to handle one....

Infectious diseases may have an unexpected weakness: their own propensity for laziness. Researchers genetically engineered "cheating" versions of a common, inflammation-causing microbe. When injected into already-infected mice, the bugs benefited from the chemical labors of other microbes ...

In the hours following an outbreak of salmonella, there are many questions. And answers can be hard to find. Where did the problem start? Can it be contained? Is the sickness likely to spread? Iowa State University researchers have developed a technique for testing for the presence of salmonella tha...

My husband and I were raised in entirely different households. Rick’s parents are conservative, tea-toddling Southern Baptists. My parents are…well, my parents are California pseudo-hippies. Rick’s folks raised him in a sterile environment, took him to the doctor for every ailment and protecte...

The key to battling drug-tolerant superbugs could be keeping them awake. New research into how bacteria go dormant, allowing them to evade drugs, could lead to a method to keep them from hiding. Bacterial infections are often hard to eradicate because a small percentage of germs are dormant at any o...

RTFA: http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_… Researchers at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities are studying a remarkable species of bacteria, Geobacter sulfurreducens, that produces electric current when attached to a graphite electrode or other conductive surface. Geobacter&...

Filed under: Health & Medical After some comments in my post about shrimp cocktail, I began to think about kitchen fears. Shayna covered "risky eating" in April, but what about how you run your kitchen and how you prepare your food? Are you an Alton Brown, who treats raw chicken like an infectio...

FiReaNGeL notes scrutiny presented this morning at Penn State on the finding of a new, ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. From the psu.edu announcement: "The microorganism's ability to pe...