Today, Google honors German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri (born May 31st, 1852), the scientist credited with the invention of the Petri dish – a ubiquitous research tool particularly suited to raising cell cultures and revealing how gross-and/or-fascinating the world is, generally.
The animation shows a series of Petri dishes sprouting Google-spelling bacteria after being swabbed. Mouse-over each dish, and you can see the source of each bacterial colony. (We were kind of surprised not to see bacteria from any belly buttons.)
https://gizmodo.com/welcome-to-the-department-of-bellybutton-studies-5800184
https://gizmodo.com/our-bellybuttons-are-home-to-hundreds-of-undiscovered-s-5817753
