Gypsy Scholar: I'll never think of shampoo the same way again . . .

Saturday, September 10, 2016

I'll never think of shampoo the same way again . . .

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The Spectator

Kate Womersley (The Spectator, August 27, 2016) asks if we "Want to feel better?" but answers her own question: "Be kind to your bugs." Excellent advice. How?

Laboratories are working to engineer precise faecal mixtures, or 'sham-poos' if you will, to further develop the promising results clinicians have seen when treating the hospital superbug Clostridium difficile by bacterial exchange.

Fecal mixtures? Really? Applied how? Bacterial exchange? I don't liked the way this is headed . . . nor where this will likely end up!

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Name: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Location: Seoul, South Korea

I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."

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I'll never think of shampoo the same way again . . .

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