A Few Thoughts On Feminist Bacteria
Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 21:00
in Biology & Nature
For all our species' success in bending nature to our will, in the long run, the planet we call our own belongs to the bacteria. They are ubiquitous and innumerable; their versatility seems to know no end. There are bacteria that live in Arctic and Antarctic ice[1], bacteria that can survive irradiation with a dose of 5,000 Gray (500,000 rads) [2], bacteria that thrive in hot springs at 80 degrees C [3]. And someday a thousand or a million years from now, when we humans have finally killed ourselves off fighting over our National Interests, the archaea and the bacteria will be here still. read more