Heart and Caffeine Plushies

I bought Heart a couple of months ago, and Caffeine just arrived today.

Here are my two latest @GIANTmicrobes plushies: Heart and Caffeine

The heart is particularly adorable. pic.twitter.com/LV1IuVCWf5

— Mason Porter (@masonporter) July 17, 2018

Penis Economics

Annals of Improbable Research posted blurbs of a couple of interesting-looking papers on Facebook.

One paper, according to the first sentence of its abstract, "explores the link between economic development and penile length between 1960 and 1985."

Another paper discusses etiquette versus effort in door-holding, which some of you know quite well is actually very important to me. Here is a link to the actual paper. I should mention, though, that my purpose in doing this is not to minimize total effort; I do it because it's the right bloody thing to do!

This one's for the kids.

Lemming posted a link about stuffed internal organs. That is so awesome!

Or, if you prefer, you could buy your kids stuffed microbes.

Anyway, you have lots of choices this holiday season! (I'm just here to help.)