exciting moments in air quality, radiation, bacteria, deadly sunscreen, and Lord Byron

Today I learned that if you've been battling filtered-smoke-related laundry contamination, you shouldn't go into town when it is more humid and more polluted than normal. I might have been able to handle the humidity if car exhaust weren't made of filtered gasoline smoke, but since it is, things went poorly. The really, really sick lady almost didn't get any bananas.

In non-smoke news, low-level radiation apparently makes your immune system happy, and we're spreading bacteria all over the solar system, which leads us to the quote of the day:

This week, the Phoenix lander touched down on Mars, hoping to take the first ever direct measurements of Martian water and organic molecules. “To guarantee the cleanliness of the robotic arm, it was enclosed in a biobarrier bag – effectively an interplanetary condom,” said Lewis. But this will not be a feasible control measure for humans.

Also, sunscreen kills coral, and Lord Byron had a club foot.