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Sep. 17th, 2003 10:10 pmWeird News of the Day
PUYALLUP, Washington - It's an up-and-down record for a couple of Washington state women. After 75 hours on a teeter-totter, Brandi Carbee and Natalie Svenvold said they were feeling dizzy - and their butts were sore. Svenvold is a Western Washington University student who's expecting to graduate this winter with a degree in phys-ed. She says after about 50 hours, it was like being drunk. Carbee talked her into it. She's a track coach at the school. While they were on the see-saw for 75 straight hours, they did get bathroom breaks. They had five minutes off every four or five hours to answer the call of nature.
Question of the Day
Q: What's that living in my mouth?
For the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses inhabiting our mouths, life is a piece of cake, or whatever else we have eaten. What we lunch on, they munch on.
In fact, our mouths are ecosystems for them, as the weather forecast remains the same at 95ยบ F, unless we are ill, the level of humidity at 100%, and the guaranteed a free meal on, actually in, the mouth is unconditional. They select their own living quarters, with some preferring life between the teeth, others preferring the space between the gums and the teeth, others preferring the roof of the mouth, and yet others preferring the cracks in the front or in the back of the tongue. They do, however, work for this luxurious lifestyle, by performing such tasks as eating each other, fending off bad species of bacteria, etc., manufacturing different products, and eating the food that becomes lodged in parts of our mouths.
The only harmful species of bacteria inhabiting our mouths is Streptococcus mutants, the cavity causing bacteria. Microbiologists believe that initially, this bacteria was our friend, and played a useful role in our mouths, just as the other species of bacteria do. As man progressed down the evolutionary timeline and began refining raw sugar, Streptococcus mutants became the enemy. This species thrives upon refined sugar and, as a part of its digestive process, converts sugar into acid.
PUYALLUP, Washington - It's an up-and-down record for a couple of Washington state women. After 75 hours on a teeter-totter, Brandi Carbee and Natalie Svenvold said they were feeling dizzy - and their butts were sore. Svenvold is a Western Washington University student who's expecting to graduate this winter with a degree in phys-ed. She says after about 50 hours, it was like being drunk. Carbee talked her into it. She's a track coach at the school. While they were on the see-saw for 75 straight hours, they did get bathroom breaks. They had five minutes off every four or five hours to answer the call of nature.
Question of the Day
Q: What's that living in my mouth?
For the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses inhabiting our mouths, life is a piece of cake, or whatever else we have eaten. What we lunch on, they munch on.
In fact, our mouths are ecosystems for them, as the weather forecast remains the same at 95ยบ F, unless we are ill, the level of humidity at 100%, and the guaranteed a free meal on, actually in, the mouth is unconditional. They select their own living quarters, with some preferring life between the teeth, others preferring the space between the gums and the teeth, others preferring the roof of the mouth, and yet others preferring the cracks in the front or in the back of the tongue. They do, however, work for this luxurious lifestyle, by performing such tasks as eating each other, fending off bad species of bacteria, etc., manufacturing different products, and eating the food that becomes lodged in parts of our mouths.
The only harmful species of bacteria inhabiting our mouths is Streptococcus mutants, the cavity causing bacteria. Microbiologists believe that initially, this bacteria was our friend, and played a useful role in our mouths, just as the other species of bacteria do. As man progressed down the evolutionary timeline and began refining raw sugar, Streptococcus mutants became the enemy. This species thrives upon refined sugar and, as a part of its digestive process, converts sugar into acid.
