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LUCKY DIRT

Alexander Fleming's famous discovery of penicillin at St Mary's Hospital in 1928 was caused by a speck of penicillium notatum mould (from a lab one floor below) accidentally contaminating an uncovered culture plate while he was away on holidays. Many years later when Fleming was touring a modern research laboratory he commented with interest upon the dust-free, air-conditioned environment in which its technicians worked. "What a pity you did not have a place like this to work in," his guide said. "Who can tell what you might have discovered in such surroundings." Fleming's reply? "Not penicillin!"

VOCABULARY
speck - drobina
mould - pleśń
to contaminate - zanieczyścić, zatruć
culture plate - naczynie do hodowania kultur bakterii
dust-free - czyste, o zaostrzonych wymaganiach co do czystości i sterylności powietrza
surroundings - otoczenie

JOKE OF THE WEEK: The bad news is...

Doctor: I have some bad news and some very bad news.
Patient: Well, might as well give me the bad news first.
Doctor: The lab called with your test results. They said you have 24 hours to live.
Patient: 24 HOURS! That's terrible!! WHAT could be WORSE? What's the very bad news?
Doctor: I've been trying to reach you since yesterday.

VOCABULARY
a lab (laboratory) - laboratorium
to reach sb - skontaktować się

USEFUL QUOTATION

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

"Jedynym sposobem utrzymania zdrowia jest jedzenie tego, czego nie lubisz, picie tego, czego nie chcesz, i robienie tego, na co nie masz ochoty."

Mark Twain

DID YOU KNOW

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

VOCABULARY
headphones - słuchawki
to increase - zwiększyć

CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY

Choose the correct alternative.
1. What organ sends the blood around the body?
2. Where are red cells, white cells and plasma found?
3. What is the name of the organ in the body that produces insulin and substances which help to digest food so that it can be used by the body?
4. What is the name for the line of bones down the centre of the back that provide support for the body and protect the spinal cord?
5. Where in the body of a woman or other female mammal does a baby develop before birth?

Answer Key: 1. Heart; 2. Blood; 3. Pancreas; 4. Backbone/spine; 5. In a womb/uterus;

TOP FIVE THINGS
YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR DURING SURGERY

1. Nurse, did this patient sign the organs donation card?
2. Damn! Page 84 of the manual is missing!
3. Everybody stand back! I lost a contact lens!
4. Whoa, wait a minute, if this is his spleen, then what's that?
5. You know, there's big money in kidneys. Hell, he's got two of them.

VOCABULARY
surgery - operacja
manual - podręcznik
a contact lens - soczewka kontaktowa
spleen - śledziona

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