Welcome to the world of nanobugs!
We live in a world where human beings think they rule. But within this world
lies the unseen kingdom of microbes. Because microbes are invisible to the
human eye, we often forget they are there.
But with a little imagination, we can give life to the microbes and learn how
to live in harmony with them.
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Back to School Sale on Shirts and Aprons
Students: Don’t take the nanobugs back to school with you instead... Wear them on your T-shirt!
Teachers: Get the school year off to an healthy start! Wear a nanobugs training shirt to help you teach proper cough and sneeze etiquette.
Lunch Ladies: Wear a nanobugs apron to remind students and co-workers of the importance of preventing foodborne illness.
During August and September, when you order a nanobugs shirt or apron, get a second one free! Order now »
Just order online and we will automatically send a second shirt when we ship your order.
*if you need a different size for the second shirt – just order and then click on Contact Us and tell us the size under “comments”
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Hey, students: Don’t take the nanobugs back to school with you instead, wear them on your T-shirt. During August and September, if you buy a nanobugs t-shirt in the online store, you get a second one free! We will send it automatically with your order. And if you want the second shirt to be a different size from the first, just fill in your name and the size in "contact us".
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The kids are back in school and so are the nanobugs!
When we bring large numbers of people together in the same place -like a school- and they spend the day together – each contributing their own nanobugs - the environment can get overloaded with microbes – some pathogenic (disease-producing) and many non-pathogenic.
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Today we celebrate the 40th Earth Day! I am wearing my Earth Day tee-shirt that says, ”Earth Day- Celebrate Everyday”. I planted some flowers in the planter in the front yard this morning and I plan to continue the celebration on Saturday with more transplanting and yard primping. I want to take this opportunity to recognize the millions of nanobugs that inhabit the soil and promote decay and enrichment of the soil. I think most humans forget the positive contribution that microbes make to the cycles of life outdoors. I hope you can get your hands in the soil today and participate in tending the Earth. (Be sure to wash those hands when you are finished) Today go beyond your appreciation of the beautiful blooming trees and flowers - and appreciate the often-forgotten microbes that support The Earth and her vegetation. Go,nanobugs!
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Spring is here and our leisure time now includes more outdoor activities. Cooking meat and vegetables on an outdoor grill is a cherished activity of many American families. It is good for our health and seems to be effective in bringing families together for meals around the picnic table as well as the kitchen table. But food safety is an important goal with outdoor grilling as well as indoor cooking. The warm weather outdoors presents some added challenges related to cooking outdoors.
There are some foodborne nanobugs that can spoil the fun if they are allowed to go unchecked in our food preparation process especially in the warm weather months. The major culprits are:
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Today is Maggie Mae’s first birthday! Maggie is not a nanobug and not a cartoon – she is my real live Beagle puppy. I discovered that 2010 also includes the celebration of the 60th birthday of a more famous Beagle – Snoopy. Snoopy is the most wonderful cartoon character created by Charles Schultz in his comic strip- Peanuts. Wikipedia sites October 4, 1950 as Snoopy’s cartoon birth date (when he first appeared in the cartoon). Evidently, Schultz wanted to call the dog “Sniffy” but that name was already assigned to another dog in another comic strip. He settled on the infamous name of “Snoopy” – his late mother’s idea to name their next dog. It is an affectionate term in Norwegian. It’s hard to imagine the dog we know as Snoopy with any other name – but as comedian, Dave Barry says, “a Beagle is just a nose with four legs”. I would have to agree on that and suggest that all Beagles be assigned a middle name of Sniffy.
Personification with characterization – especially in a cartoon format -is such an effective tool for entertaining and educating if the characterization is accurate. This is the basis for the development of the nanobugs: cartoon microbes that entertain and educate people of all ages about practical microbiology.
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