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ASU KEDtalks: What Soap Leaves Behind

We have an omnipres­ence of antimi­cro­bial chem­i­cals. We can­not escape them any­more. They are in our water, in our air, in our soil, in our food. They are in the wildlife and they are in us. But iron­i­cal­ly, they are much more effec­tive in killing things oth­er than microorganisms.

The ​“Essence of Sandwichness,” Including the Official New York Definition of a Sandwich

I love read­ing gov­ern­ment mem­os because the world is an unclas­si­fi­able place, but the peo­ple that write these mem­os have to try to clas­si­fy it any­way, and the results get weird. You get these clas­si­fi­ca­tion odd­i­ties, these reg­u­la­to­ry platypuses. 

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