I’ve recently picked up the hobby of looking at tiny things with a microscope. It occurred to me that a lot of the wonder is still present when you find weird s

I’ve recently picked up the hobby of looking at tiny things with a microscope. It occurred to me that a lot of the wonder is still present when you find weird stuff like this. These days I can reference the internet to figure out what some common things are, but there are still heaps of weird things I find that I really have no idea what they are and deep searches yield nothing or a vague “it might be part of this enormous genus, but maybe not”. It would have been something else at the dawn of microscopy, but it’s still such an incredible way to see the world. Every time I look I’m amazed by the sheer scale and diversity of life happening all around me (and on me). Worlds within worlds.