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The World in a Grain of Sand
0June 1, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour
-William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’
The radiolarians are among the most beautiful microbial eukaryotes. They are significant components of the marine plankton and are characterized by mineralized cytoskeletal components that appear as nested spheres and spines; so that they often look like as tiny free-floating star-bursts.
When large numbers of them and their planktonic relations get together, they look like this; (more…)

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