{"id":57,"date":"2017-06-07T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/portugal-summer-2017\/?p=57"},"modified":"2017-06-07T14:23:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T19:23:51","slug":"on-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/portugal-summer-2017\/2017\/06\/07\/on-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"On Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

We made agar from powder today. Loads of it! After I got back from the urgent care clinic. It is the perfect medium to grow all sorts of gross fungi and bacteria: also known as chance drawings of colors and shapes.<\/p>\n

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We had 5 L of agar, water, and LB broth and 100ml each had a different additive: oat milk, cow milk, wine, dirt, and almond milk., distinguished by colored food dye. Since I was diagnosed with \u201ccommunity acquired pneumonia\u201d today, I have to cough on each one to see if the antibiotics I took an hour earlier are working.<\/p>\n

Two thumbs up for the Portuguese urgent care clinic: for about $25 dollars I got a doctor\u2019s exam and antibiotics, decongestant, and throat syrup. I waited about 10 minutes to see someone. Socialized medicine is so cool.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

This image is called \u201c5 Samples of Pneumonia and 1 flower, Day 1.\u201d<\/p>\n

My first iPhone photo down the eyepiece of a microscope. This is a year-old crystal structure grown by a Marta workshop from last summer, in a blue medium.<\/p>\n

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I think they look like palm fronds.<\/p>\n

Marta made for dinner a cod stew with potatoes, hard boiled eggs, with bread and all sorts of cheese, including a Sotonida sheep cheese, a Monte do Pereiro goat cheese, and a Borqueijos sheep cheese. Somehow I think I won\u2019t find these back home. Tomorrow we make a whole milk fresh cheese at home and wine soaked pears. She will also teach me to print mushroom spores. We had acorn brandy as a night cap. They discussed Maja’s performance with the wolves, whether love is just an exchange of needs and favors, and the many uses of human produced collagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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