It has long been rumored that bathroom hand dryers are far less sanitary than we are led to believe. Thankfully, this has been confirmed and I can no longer feel bad for encouraging my daughter to shake out her hands instead of utilizing the suspicious hand dryer. A study found that a petrie dish placed in the bathroom attracted more bacteria after the hand dryer was used. Apparently, hand dryers suck in the air in the environment and then blow it out onto our hands. This is not terribly surprising though certainly disgusting. Unfortunately, hand dryers were supposed to be a better alternative to wasting paper towels. Now we have to ask, "at what cost?"
After acing Discrete Mathematics, my senior year math class in high school, I was sure that I was a math genius. I even schooled my teacher on Pascal's triangle. Majoring in mathematics in college was a no-brainer; I had this. But the universe is a cruel teacher and I was quickly humbled. I knew nothing of mathematics. Chemists everywhere may be experiencing a similar humbling since Uspex came on the scene. Granted it was hubris to assume that we could have mastered chemistry. Our existence is so complex and so too is everything that contributes to it. The upside to these discoveries of compounds acting in "unexpected" ways, is that we can now develop more efficient technology and improve our understanding of medicine. Which could in turn provide a way to save our planet from the mess we have made.
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