Wow, Good to Know: summarized!

[steuard]

As I mentioned in a recent post, I've been collecting a list of "surprising but important bits of life knowledge everyone should hear". I came up with a number of them myself, and got lots of good ideas on Facebook. I'm planning to share these (one at a time) with my students this fall, but I've also collected them together on the web. If anyone wants to suggest more ideas to add, I'm all ears! Here's the site:
Wow, Good to Know!

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[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Proof that I am a wiseass -

The first thing I thought was "Rabies isn't a hundred percent fatal! Three people have survived!"

I'm pretty sure the tilde covers that.

[steuard.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, is it three now? I'd only heard about the first one. That's a good sign.

[beth_leonard]

Awesome list BTW. I'm halfway through the lawyer's talk. I had had a vague feeling that one shouldn't talk to the police unless compelled to do so out of need, but I had no idea it was so bad. I'm not done with the talk yet, but I've always wondered (luckily in speculation only) if my child is missing and I call the police for help finding him/her, how much should I tell them?

Obviously in my case my first priority is getting my kid back safe and sound, but in the media it always ends up being the parents implicated in this sort of thing. If my kids were playing happily in the back yard, and then I go out to check on them and they're not there and I suspect fowl play, do I call a lawyer right after calling 911? What if I forget what they were wearing or I'm wrong about how many minutes it's been since I heard them? I've never needed a lawyer so I have no idea if they do that sort of last-minute work.

And in the Geek social fallicies, wow, I resemble that remark. Hopefully not too badly, but I could point to evidence in favor of all of them.

Great list!

--Beth

[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

Since you are looking for more I have a few cleaning type ones that are handy if nothing else.

Don't mix bleach and amonia--they react and create a toxic nerve gas.

Baking soda works really well for getting slug slime off of hands or other things. Soap is essentially useless against slug slime.

White vinegar is a great cleaning agent and mild disinfectant. I don't use it for all my household cleaning but I do like using it on the high chair and other baby things.