Tasha Sturm is a lab technician at Cabrillo College in California, and she never ceases to be fascinated by science and the unseen world around us. Recently, after her 8-year-old son came in from playing outside, she had him place his hand in a bowl of tryptic soy agar, which forms a nutritious jelly microbial bacteria like to feed on. After her son pressed his hand into the gel, she incubated the specimen and left it alone for a while. A few short days later, this is what had formed...