flesh-eating bacteria

Oh my god, I love GIANTmicrobes! They’re little stuffed plush representations of various bacteria, viruses, and other microscopic causes of illness; my sister-in-law (who’s deep in the thick of her own medical training right now) passed on the link last night. My favorites have to be Giardia lamblia and E. coli (the latter reminds me enough of the Sentinels that you gotta wonder if the Wachowski brothers used a bad case of food poisoning as inspiration for that part of The Matrix). I’m pretty sure that these are going to become my go-to gifts for kids in the family…