They land on food and spread bacteria, which multiply, doubling their numbers every 20 minutes. You go to bed feeling fine, but wake up in the middle of the night throwing up and spend the next six or eight hours in a haze of diarrhea, stomach cramps and vomiting. Call it what you will, Traveler's Diarrhea, Montezuma's Revenge, dysentery, or the trots. So far the team has avoided its curse. Last week in Gross and Disgusting we learned that fatty sheep butts hanging by the side of the road, something that may seem gross, is actually really smart.
Harmless bacteria have a tenderizing effect and fat makes it more flavorful.
Most Uighur people are Muslim, so they probably think it's gross for us to eat pork, an animal they think is unclean. But I'm here to tell you that many things that at first seem gross are really cool. Sometimes it's the things we don't even think of that are really gross. See next week's Cool Science report to learn more about the science of population growth. Copyright 1999, Classroom Connect.