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Tag: Contamination

Will You Get Sick If You go to the Beach?

May 13, 2025 Antarctica Journal
Will You Get Sick If You go to the Beach?

If you go to the beach this summer you may come home with some bacteria from the water.  Studies show that the water may be contaminated with all sorts of unsafe bacteria. Before rainwater can be absorbed by the ground or evaporated back into the air it travels down to the ocean waters through sewer pipes where it can pick […]

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The 5-Second Rule Was Debunked by Science

December 7, 2024 Antarctica Journal
The 5-Second Rule Was Debunked by Science

Researchers have found that – by testing foods left on bacteria – the five second rule does not keep the bacteria from getting on your food.  The five second rule states that if you pick up your food before the five seconds that it is safe to eat.  As a matter of fact, the researchers found that food left on […]

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The Flint Water Crisis

November 9, 2024 Antarctica Journal
Flint Drinking Water Crisis

The Flint water crisis. A health catastrophe uncovered by a doctor at the Flint, MI Public Hospital. Dr. Mona as she is referred to is also a professor at Flint, MI state university’s College of Medicine. Call it fate, but Dr. Mona was in the right place at the right time when she discovered the horrific safety hazards posed by […]

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Crass commercialism, after tennis star Maria Sharapova asked Florida’s Supreme Court to let her change her surname to Sugarpova for the U.S. Open — a publicity stunt for her new line of candy. Sharapova backed out of the name switch, said her agent, after discovering she would have to “change all her identification.”

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