Business as usual in a time of disaster
As a kid I liked to play with microscopes. My favourite thing to study was drops of water from dirty ponds and puddles. I was amazed at the many tiny creatures that could be found in a single drop. There were little oval-shaped protozoa that zoomed across my field of view, various wormlike organisms with different methods of movement, things that looked like flowers that sucked water in and squirted it out again and numerous other creatures. Mostly they were translucent. You could see inside their bodies, watching the mysterious structures in there moving and pulsating.…
