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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words
ID: #34119
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Pig Pen
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You might blame your pets for shedding all over the house. But we humans do it too—and our stuff is alive. "We're constantly emitting microbes around us. And this is coming from shedding of our skin, from exhaling, our hair, we’re just full of these guys." Adam Altrichter, a microbial ecologist at the university of Oregon. "We've never been sterile organisms. We are definitely masses of microbes both in and on us." If you're picturing the Peanuts character Pig Pen, you may not be far off. Because biologists estimate we shed a million particles an hour—including, of course, a lot of bacteria. Altrichter and his colleagues wanted to measure that cloud of particles—the "Pig Pen" effect, if you will—so they asked 11 volunteers not to shower.
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