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fandomhigh2009-09-28 08:25 am
tyler_gone) wrote in fandomhigh2009-09-28 08:25 am
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Applied Science | Monday | 9.28
As the students entered the classroom, Tyler tossed a weird-shaped plush .... thing at each one. He hadn't planned on covering bio this semester, but he found himself with a few stray weeks and everyone was obsessed with H1N1 anyhow.
"Hi. Congratulations. Now you have swine flu, syphilis, mad cow disease, and a couple other diseases," he said, an odd gleeful note to his tone. "Hope you don't mind. Take them home, introduce them to your other roommates, give them cute names. You're getting them today because they fit in with what we're going to talk about, which is bacteria and viruses -- germs."
He went on to lecture about the differences between bacteria and viruses, how they were spread, and the diseases they could cause, then gestured to two glittery markers set on a table in the front of the class.
(Glitter and stuffed animals. Apparently Tyler was going through his own little gender swap today.)
"I want you to pass the marker around and take turns writing something on the posterboard. Touch the marker and the paper as you usually would. Watch where the glitter gets on your body and now it gets there, and think about how germs might be similar. Once you've seen it, you'll never want to touch anything again without rubber gloves and anti-bacterial soap."
"That's actually a bad thing. Antibacterials kill the normal germs, but it means the strong ones live. Natural selection is leading to giant superstrong bacterium that will probably take over the world and cause a plague and kill everyone. Avoid plague. Use regular soap. And if anybody wants to start making out, don't blame the glitter"
He held out the marker to the first student, holding it by the less glittery end. "Go to it."
"Hi. Congratulations. Now you have swine flu, syphilis, mad cow disease, and a couple other diseases," he said, an odd gleeful note to his tone. "Hope you don't mind. Take them home, introduce them to your other roommates, give them cute names. You're getting them today because they fit in with what we're going to talk about, which is bacteria and viruses -- germs."
He went on to lecture about the differences between bacteria and viruses, how they were spread, and the diseases they could cause, then gestured to two glittery markers set on a table in the front of the class.
(Glitter and stuffed animals. Apparently Tyler was going through his own little gender swap today.)
"I want you to pass the marker around and take turns writing something on the posterboard. Touch the marker and the paper as you usually would. Watch where the glitter gets on your body and now it gets there, and think about how germs might be similar. Once you've seen it, you'll never want to touch anything again without rubber gloves and anti-bacterial soap."
"That's actually a bad thing. Antibacterials kill the normal germs, but it means the strong ones live. Natural selection is leading to giant superstrong bacterium that will probably take over the world and cause a plague and kill everyone. Avoid plague. Use regular soap. And if anybody wants to start making out, don't blame the glitter"
He held out the marker to the first student, holding it by the less glittery end. "Go to it."
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