NEW FRONTIERS IN GERMICIDAL LIVING: In today’s TCSDaily column, I look at future developments in public health.

Plus the kickoff to the revolution!

UPDATE: Reader David Handron emails:

I teach at Carnegie Mellon University, and yesterday I noticed that there is a hand sanitizer dispenser at the exit of the computer cluster where I’m teaching this semester.

It seems like a great idea to me, especially since colleges and universities are some of our great unsung incubators of disease. Every few months, we send students all over the country (or world!) to collect all sorts of germs, bring them back together to see what kind of new germs we can breed, and then send them back out into the world again.

Yes, there’s always a fresh round of colds, etc., after fall, Christmas, and spring breaks. I suspect that finding places to interrupt the spread of this kind of thing would do a lot of good.