{"id":48,"date":"2011-01-29T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T20:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=48"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:23:47","slug":"how-big-is-an-amoeba-and-why-do-i-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2011\/01\/29\/how-big-is-an-amoeba-and-why-do-i-care\/","title":{"rendered":"How big is an amoeba? And why do I care?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>An amoeba is 14 microns big, but can fit through a hole that\u2019s only 7 microns big.\u00a0 And since a micron is 1\/1000th<\/sup>of a millimeter, that\u2019s very small!<\/p>\n

Amoebas and Water Filtration<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why do I care about amoebas?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the many things I\u2019ve learned in my Missionary Technology class these last two weeks.\u00a0 Amoebas, along with bacteria and viruses, can be found in water, especially the water that I\u2019ll likely have when I live in a tribal village.\u00a0 And so we learned about a 3-stage water filtration system that will clean our water by removing bugs, bacteria, viruses, and yes, even amoebas.<\/p>\n

Zapping your Batteries<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019ve also learned how to zap ni-cad batteries.\u00a0 Before class that day I had no idea what that even meant, but by asking a lot of really basic questions I figured it out!\u00a0 You know how a lot of rechargeable batteries don\u2019t last so long after you\u2019ve recharged them a bunch of times?\u00a0 Well, if they say \u201cnickel cadmium\u201d on them, I now know how to zap them so that when you charge them they\u2019ll actually be fully charged, as-good-as-new again!<\/p>\n

Electricity<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I move into a tribal village overseas all the electricity in my house will likely be supplied by the sun through a set of solar panels.\u00a0 The electricity will then be stored on a bunch of car batteries and everything that needs electricity will use that power.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve learned a lot about how to do the most with the least amount of power and I\u2019m sure that we\u2019ll learn a lot more in the next 4 weeks of that class!\u00a0 Did you know that the refrigerator they recommend uses 11 times less power than the normal refrigerators you can get here?\u00a0 Or that you can get a decent LED light that only uses a watt or two of power?<\/p>\n

Well, I can\u2019t share with you everything <\/em>that I\u2019m learning.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 Let it suffice to say that I am really enjoying the start of this second semester in Missouri and I\u2019m learning a lot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An amoeba is 14 microns big, but can fit through a hole that\u2019s only 7 microns big.\u00a0 And since a micron is 1\/1000thof a millimeter, that\u2019s very small! Amoebas and Water Filtration Why do I care about amoebas?\u00a0 It\u2019s one of the many things I\u2019ve learned in my Missionary Technology class these last two weeks.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-training","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}