Stuff We Like: Mummified Facebook friends, outsmarting bacteria, and smoking taxes

MUMMIFIED FACEBOOK FRIENDS
“Twitter Need: Can Social Media Transform Museums?” (Time Out Chicago, Apr. 2-8, 2009)
Meresamun, the Oriental Institute’s popular 3,000-year-old mummy, can credit her growing notoriety to social-networking sites like Facebook, where she interacts with friends—and fans.

OUTSMARTING BACTERIA
“Research Could Lead to New Non-Antibiotic Drugs to Counter HAIs” (Infection Control Today, Apr. 8, 2009)
“It’s almost as if the bacterium sense when to strike,” surgery professor John Alverdy says. “That should come as no surprise since the bacteria are smart, having been around for two billion years.”

SMOKING TAXES
“Do Smokers Cost Society Money?” (Associated Press, Apr. 8, 2009)
Health economics and policy professor Willard Manning weighs in on the debate about tobacco taxes and the price nonsmokers pay for smokers' health care.

April 9, 2009

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