In Episode 6 Don and Ben talk petting zoos and risk management strategies. Ben rants about his neuroses with animal contact while Don analyzes these fears (for free).
- An outbreak of E. coli O157 linked to the North Carolina State Fair.
- What a well known quickserve restaurant might look like (here, here or here).
- A list of petting zoo-related outbreaks.
- The North Carolina State Fair.
- Some other pathogenic E. colis.
- 2004 North Carolina State Fair petting zoo-linked E. coli O157 outbreak (108 cases).
- What a hippie Ben looks like, and a picture of his Birkenstocks and water tub.
- Why Ben is worried about railings, sawdust, etc at petting zoos.
- Howling Cow; NC State Ice Cream.
- Fireman Sam, who Ben's son often emulates.
- Valuing a safe petting zoo.
- Freehold Borough, in the garden state, where Don lives and can't raise chickens in his backyard.
- Deli meat risks and pregnancy another risk benefit trade-off.
- Potential for microbial contamination of spinach through feedyard air/dust growing in close proximity to cattle feedyard operations.
- Benefits that raw milk drinkers see that can outweigh risks for some individuals.
- Ben on TV; those are not his jazzy hands at the bottom.
- A way of getting things off of Ben's TV.
- Handwashing encouragement signs at the North Carolina State Fair (October 16, 2011).
- Inspecting food vendors at the North Carolina State Fair.
- North Carolina petting zoo sanitation and communication regulations.
- NC State Expert Offers Insight On E. coli Outbreak.
- Risk of Salmonella from reptiles.
- Quit touching my toilet paper.
- Journal of Irreproducible Results.
- Ah, graduate students.
- Foodborne illnesses aren't just numbers.
- The satire of bridging masters.
- What professors looked like before iPods.
- The Pearl Jam documentary that Ben is obsessed with.
- The Bridge School benefit concert.
- Don's guilty pleasure.
- Why Don and Kristin may never leave the couch again.
- The Instapaper sage Marco, who has blogged about TV watching.
- Merlin likes sports.
