What the Dust in Your House Says About You
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What the Dust in Your House Says About You
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#2Did anyone else read this and have the sudden urge to steam clean their entire apartment?
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#3Did anyone else read this and have the sudden urge to steam clean their entire apartment?
I designed my computer case to pull massive quantities of air through a furnace filter so my apartment is relatively dust-free...
So at least not me.
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#5Did anyone else read this and have the sudden urge to steam clean their entire apartment?
Doesn't really bother me. Every year during Lent I hear, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return." So I figure my house and I are slowly fulfilling biblical prophecy.
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#6Wow, short article but full of so much fascinating and somewhat disturbing content!
I found this a particularly uncomfortable thought:
In a troubling discovery, Dunn and his colleagues learned that,
from a microbiological perspective, toilet seats and
pillowcases look strikingly similar.
Guess I'll just have to resort to changing my pillow cases a few times a week
grin
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#7Did anyone else read this and have the sudden urge to steam clean their entire apartment?
No but I heard that computer manufacturing is rated in dust particles per billion air molecules.
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#8Wow, short article but full of so much fascinating and somewhat disturbing content! I found this a particularly uncomfortable thought: In a troubling discovery, Dunn and his colleagues learned that, from a microbiological perspective, toilet seats and pillowcases look strikingly similar. And unfortunately I don't know how to un-read. Guess I'll just have to resort to changing my pillow cases a few times a week grin
My takeaway from that was a toilet seat makes for an OK headrest if nothing else is available :-)
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#9Wow, short article but full of so much fascinating and somewhat disturbing content! I found this a particularly uncomfortable thought: In a troubling discovery, Dunn and his colleagues learned that, from a microbiological perspective, toilet seats and pillowcases look strikingly similar. And unfortunately I don't know how to un-read. Guess I'll just have to resort to changing my pillow cases a few times a week grin
My takeaway from that was a toilet seat makes for an OK headrest if nothing else is available :-)
+1 Insightful
That way of looking at it actually makes me feel so much better. Thanks for the quick reversal of perspective steve19!
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#10Did anyone else read this and have the sudden urge to steam clean their entire apartment?
That seems to be a common reaction to this sort of knowledge. My guess is the mental model many people have for “microorganisms on you” is “icky parasites on you”, but the uncreepy reality is closer to just “you”.