When a parasitologist comes for dinner
When you host a visiting professor of marine parasitology from Dusseldorf, you learn to stretch your definition of fun, Helen writes:
... We packed a cooler and headed out to east Cambridge in search of butterfish. Luckily, we snatched the last 4 little fish from the New Deal Fish Market. The reason Harry was looking for them is that they are a host to a very unique parasite and this time of year, the chances of seeing parasites in this fish are extremely high. "Would you like them cleaned as usual?" asked Carl. "Not this time," I said. ...
Do not click on the link if you don't want to see photos of what you can find growing on and in butterfish this time of year.
Speaking of icky stuff, I just got this e-mail from some PR person: "How about a blog post about sauerkraut?" How about: No. God, imagine doing that for a living: Trying to convince bloggers to write about sauerkraut. I think I'd want to kill myself.
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Who knew there were sauerkraut astroturfers?
Man, that just blows my mind. Someone's getting paid to promote sauerkraut?
Sauer, My Favorite Kind of Kraut
I'm giggling like a fool, imagining there's a sauerkraut board somewhere pulling together the marketing budget.
Personally, I hate saurkraut. I guess that's why they didn't ask me to write about it for pay. I could do it though. I could talk about....um....uh..... nevermind. Wait, how much does it pay again?
[edited because I obviously have no idea how to spell sauerkraut]
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Great Book
Parasite Rex
Oh...
...and the guy's name is really Dr. Harry Palm? Tehehehe.
Of course, he's real
But I don't know if he works with doctors Billie Rubin or Al Bumen.
In any case, here he is on the Web.