Microbial Culture
December 3, 2014 2:53 PM Subscribe
Does anyone have any recommendations on some excellent media about microbes in general, and human microbiota specifically?
I've looked, and Google has turned up little more than jokey poems by scientists or exercises designed to get elementary school students interested in science.
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good fiction or poetry (movies or music would be good too!) about all the invisible-to-us stuff that lives around, on and in us! Odes to e. coli, short stories with a tardigrade protagonist, a blistering metal track about dust mites, whatever!
I've looked, and Google has turned up little more than jokey poems by scientists or exercises designed to get elementary school students interested in science.
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of some good fiction or poetry (movies or music would be good too!) about all the invisible-to-us stuff that lives around, on and in us! Odes to e. coli, short stories with a tardigrade protagonist, a blistering metal track about dust mites, whatever!
Response by poster: Sorry all, I've been looking at this topic from such a specific direction for so long that I'd forgotten about the whole *disease* side of things!
Should have included in the question that I'm looking for **innocuous, quotidian, or beneficial microbes**. Kind of important there. Otherwise there's the movie Contagion, the board game Pandemic, and, oh, say, everything about zombies, and that's just off the top of my head.
posted by rhooke at 4:01 PM on December 3, 2014
Should have included in the question that I'm looking for **innocuous, quotidian, or beneficial microbes**. Kind of important there. Otherwise there's the movie Contagion, the board game Pandemic, and, oh, say, everything about zombies, and that's just off the top of my head.
posted by rhooke at 4:01 PM on December 3, 2014
Her's an awesome TED talk about how bacteria communicate. Ah, on rereading, that may be more academic than what you're looking for... Maybe consider it performance art? ;)
posted by Sublimity at 5:12 PM on December 3, 2014
posted by Sublimity at 5:12 PM on December 3, 2014
I heard a part of this year's Ig Nobel opera, What's Eating You?, on NPR. The premise doesn't sound quite as related (people who stop eating food and start eating only pills), but there was definitely a chorus of gut bacteria closing out the segment, so... maybe that?
posted by deludingmyself at 7:00 PM on December 3, 2014
posted by deludingmyself at 7:00 PM on December 3, 2014
The American Society for Microbiology has a TON of excellent resources on their website ranging from stuff that is layperson friendly all the way through professional resources.
posted by forkisbetter at 9:08 AM on December 6, 2014
posted by forkisbetter at 9:08 AM on December 6, 2014
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posted by megatherium at 3:45 PM on December 3, 2014