Wow, it's been like a week since I posted...I've been reading up on the Anthrax scare in Florida, and MSNBC reported that the Anthrax may have originated in Ames, IA, home to the illustrious Iowa State University. They have the National Animal Disease Laboratories out there, so I guess it makes sense that if you want to heist some deadly biological agents, that's the place to go. But Ames! Innocent, unaware, midwestern Ames. I find myself trying to explain this stuff to my students (who did not know what Anthrax was) and I end up saying things like, "well, if I was a terrorist, this is what I'd do with Anthrax..." So they're calling the FBI on me, probably, right now. I realized this week that I constantly speak in varying degrees of irony and sarcasm and that my students probably don't understand that I'm not being serious. But I enjoy confusing them.
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