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So we're doing a program on handwashing, and I'd like to try growing out some petri dishes with samples from pre and post-washed hands. I don't have a proper incubator and am not willing/able to buy one, and am looking for alternatives--a warm window, a toaster oven, the top of a toaster oven.... Anything else that will give me some measure of success.

Any other tips or suggestions are also welcome, as I haven't done this since my freshman year of college (ie, a while ago) when we ran around with Q-tips and swabbed bathrooms, keyboards and anything else we could get at...

thanks,
AD
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Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager
Boston Children's Museum
617-426-6500 x342
www.BostonChildrensMuseum.org
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."   --Isaac Asimov 
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