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Doctors who wear neckties may look more competent and reassuring, but their cravattes are actually disease-harbouring pest-farms of neck-grease, sweat, and plague germs.
Researchers found that nearly half of the ties worn by medical workers harboured bacteria which could cause disease.Link (via Stross)Clinicians were eight times more likely to wear a tie carrying bacteria than by hospital security staff.
I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.