Dancing cats and fermented walrus

[wraithfodder]

 Yes, I read the oddest books. I'm back on my non-fiction book jag, having just completed Food, Sex and Salmonella: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick (Dr. David Waltner-Toews)  which has no sex in it, by the way, but plenty of information on food poisoning. I had no idea Canada had had so many outbreaks (this is a Canadian publication) and apparently fermented walrus and/or seal flippers can leave you with a nasty case of botulism! Meanwhile, back in the late 1950s, there was a horrid case of mercury poisoning in Japan, and the disease was commonly referred to as "dancing cat disease" as when cats got mercury poisoning, they were staggering, running or collapsing. Ouch. But, if you like non-fiction medical type books on the subject, I recommend it.

Now, onward to the HUGE color hardback called The Private Lives of Spiders (Paul Hillyard) which has big, gorgeous shots of various arachnids. I'll cease and desist here, for the arachnophobes who may be reading my LJ ;)

But shall also take a break to read a whole bunch of new Staragte Atlantis fanfic that's come out! :)

Comments

[abracah.livejournal.com]

I had enough bug reality when a bug fell out of the hair of one of my students today. Yech. She must have picked it up on the playground.

Although we did just read a non fiction book on how chocolate is made. We had chocolate day at school. It made me hungry just reading it.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that sounds like a good book (how to make chocolate). I saw one of those Food Channel shows on how they made candy. Gah, you can put on 5 pounds just watching it! ;)