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@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-09-14 00:53:29

#funFact In a typical adult human body there around 10 trillion cells, counting all the types. In the human gut alone there are usually around 100 trillion bacteria. As microbiologist Margaret McFall-Ngai puts it, “plants and animals are a patina on the microbial world.”
From “the Strange Order of Things”, by Antonio Damasio.
“I Contain Multitudes”, by @edyong209 is another excellent fora…

@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social
2026-09-20 00:54:03

#funFact
Looking and seeing are not the same thing. Looking is the eyeball being moved around by the various relevant muscles, forming the lens, shaping the iris, run by the sensorimotor cortex feedback system, focusing light on the retina, triggering sensory info that makes its way from the retina thru several cortical layers and paths to be interpreted by the visual cortex. That’s seeing. Tw…