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Fear
Ezgi • 3 cards
Curiosities
Jan Skóra • 2 cards
They begin to squirt a rubbery slime from their pores, entombing themselves in a matrix.
Carl Zimmer • Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
Funnies
Carly Redford • 1 card
MOST MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS grow by laying down new layers of cells.
Cells divide to make more cells which then divide again. A liver is made by piling liver cells on top of liver cells. The same goes for a muscle or a carrot. Hyphae are different; they grow by getting longer. Under the right conditions, a hypha can prolong itself indefinitely.
Intelligence is not central to the success of most life on Earth. Consider the grasses: they’ve flourished across incredibly diverse global environments, without planning or debating a single step. Planarian worms regrow any part of their body and are functionally immortal, a trick we can manage only in science fiction. And a microscopic virus effe... See more
Abigail Desmond • Chaos and cause
Mushrooms
Maria Carolina Suarez • 1 card
Mycelium
Maria Carolina Suarez • 1 card