Status Updates From The Symbiotic Planet : A Ne...

"In popular culture... Gaia, a living goddess... will supposedly punish or reward us... I regret this personification."

Next paragraph: "Gaia, a tough bitch, is not at all threatened by humans."

(This is not a criticism, I love both sentiments & I love Margulis's lack of patience for anyone who thinks her personality contradicts her rigor.)

Unexpected plot twist: the term Gaia for the self-regulating homeostatic system of Earth's biosphere was coined by William Golding, the Lord of the Flies guy.

This is probably my fourth time reading the Archaea Wikipedia page but I'm not going to retain all this complex, contentious, nebulous taxonomy.

Time to embrace playfulness and pretend to fierce opinions on the subject. I'll add "Woesian urkingdomist" to my repertoire of hyperspecific academic insults (joining "Ballardian instantite").

Yea and as the spirochetes swam in the nutritous cytoplasm of the archaeobacterium, so has my immigrant self made it past Germany’s falafel-guarding borders. Will I adjust my evolution to this space and contribute a new vital adaptive mechanism (weird conversations about books)?

Worms that have made their mouths vestigial and their bodies translucent so they live on the products of photosynthesis, green with algal cells packed throughout their tissues.

Biology is radical, makes sense why its professors were more involved in my university’s Occupy movement than their other STEM colleagues.