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| Belly button bacteria samples: Bacillus subtilis (left) and Staphylococcus epidermidis |
So you think you're all that and a bag of chips?
Just take a microscopic view of your belly button!
This puts all of us on equal footing. Not one person on earth has a a belly button free of bacterial loot. Don't believe me? Then go to this web site and read for yourself!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121114-belly-button-bacteria-science-health-dunn/
Published November 13, 2012
Rob Dunn and his team of ecologists aren't your average navel gazers. They're professional navel gazers, thank you very much, and their new study details the microbial contents of 60 volunteers' belly buttons.
The upshot? Belly buttons, it turns out, are a lot like rain forests.
One science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan—where he has never been.
About right now we should all start singing "It's a small, small world."
If you rub shoulders daily with a big ego and you're weary of hearing how great and superior that person is (as they let you know with a daily ALERT)....tell them to go swab their belly button and take it to a lab. It's a rain forest of bacteria. That will bring them down to the level of humanity!
I prefer what the Word of God says, Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. (God knows about my humanity and my belly button and He loves me, anyway.)
The upshot? Belly buttons, it turns out, are a lot like rain forests.
One science writer, for instance, apparently harbored a bacterium that had previously been found only in soil from Japan—where he has never been.
About right now we should all start singing "It's a small, small world."
If you rub shoulders daily with a big ego and you're weary of hearing how great and superior that person is (as they let you know with a daily ALERT)....tell them to go swab their belly button and take it to a lab. It's a rain forest of bacteria. That will bring them down to the level of humanity!
I prefer what the Word of God says, Psalm 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. (God knows about my humanity and my belly button and He loves me, anyway.)
Hang on - their next citizen-science spectacular: Armpit-pa-looza.
Ah-ha.....see you there!
Happy showering!
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