{"id":8754,"date":"2012-08-22T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8754"},"modified":"2012-08-22T09:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T16:10:42","slug":"a-few-powers-of-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/22\/a-few-powers-of-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Powers of Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via the endlessly enjoyable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/29945524543\/bacterium-diatom-amphipod-gif\">It&#8217;s Okay to Be Smart<\/a>, here&#8217;s a gif image that zooms in by about three orders of magnitude.  (Not sure of the original source.) We start by looking at an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amphipoda\">amphipod<\/a>, a tiny shrimplike critter about a millimeter across. For some reason (vanity?) it&#8217;s decorated by an even tinier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diatom\">diatom<\/a>, a bit of algae that is common in phytoplankton. From there we zoom in on a yet-tinier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bacteria\">bacterium<\/a>, just chilling out near the middle of the diatom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m951n679Pw1qbh26io1_400.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2012\/08\/tumblr_m951n679Pw1qbh26io1_400.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human beings have about ten times as many bacterial cells inside them as &#8220;human&#8221; cells. The bacteria are the passengers, we&#8217;re just the bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via the endlessly enjoyable It&#8217;s Okay to Be Smart, here&#8217;s a gif image that zooms in by about three orders of magnitude. (Not sure of the original source.) We start by looking at an amphipod, a tiny shrimplike critter about a millimeter across. For some reason (vanity?) it&#8217;s decorated by an even tinier diatom, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}