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Alright, here's the show.

Hello and welcome to the Anthropocene Reviewed, a podcast where we review different facets

of the human-centered planet on a five-star scale.

I'm John Green, and today I'll be reviewing a micro-organism, Staffel O'Coccus, orius,

and a rhetorical device called the Nondenial Denial.

Years ago, I acquired an infection in my left eye socket caused by the bacteria Staffel O'Coccus

orius, my vision-clouded, and then my eye socket swelled shut, and I ended up hospitalized

for over a week.

Had I experienced the same infection any time in history before 1940, I would have likely

lost not just my eye, but my life.

And again, I wouldn't have ever lived to acquire orbital cellulitis because I would

have died of the staff infections I had in childhood.

Staffel O'Coccus, orius, is not a normal part of the human microbiome, but many people,

perhaps around a third, are like me nonetheless hosts to colonies of it on our skin or in

our nasal passages or in our digestive systems.

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