June 15th, 2009

Doesn’t really really rhyme like with Bill Nye. Not to mention the fact that Chad actually works in the waste treatment plant and doesn’t have a TV show. Still, though, you don’t have to be the Science Guy to do scientific things. For example, today I saw Chad in the ELC. He was conducting an experiment with bacteria he brought over from the waste treatment plant. He had hooked a microscope to his computer which in turn was linked to a big flatscreen television. He put a droplet of the bacteria on a slide, and slid it under the microscope. He said that the bacteria were good bacteria that helped filter the waste. At the moment, though, the baceria were dying, because they were being simultaneously fried (the strong light in the microscope) and suffocated (no oxygen in the jar). We started to look for living bacteria, but found only a few. This was also due to the fact that there was not enough food(the waste… they eat it) for them all because not many guests were currently on the island. Some of the bacteria we did see, however, were an amoeba ( a very simple single-cell organism) and two nematodes (small microscopic worms). By the time that I was done, I knew a lot more about bacteria, escpecially that they can eat human food ( saw one nibbling on salad).

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