29 April 2009 | 10% human...
…90% bacteria. I love this stuff. We truly are the sum of our (1,000,000,000,000 + 10,000,000,000,000) parts.
“[They] were incredibly small, nay so small, in my sight, that I judged that even if 100 of these very wee animals lay stretched out one against another, they could not reach to the length of a grain of coarse Sand.”
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, describing his discovery of bacteria
See illustrations and reproductions of van Leeuwenhoek’s microscope here.
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If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.
— Leonard Cohen
15 April 2009 | Hmmm, most of row 5, F3 and B4...
They said they’d come back for me if I said anything.
[Via Coudal Partners]
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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
— Woodrow Wilson