![]() I believe that my brain goes sideways whenever talk turns to science. As you may know, if you are a regular reader of this blog, I do not consider myself scientific in any way. We need to know about them so that we can be thankful for all that they do for us. OK.that's encouraging, right? They may be small, but they have a huge impact in our world. "(Don't worry! Although some microbes make you sick, the ones that live in you and on you all the time help to keep you well.)" "Right now there are more microbes living on your skin than there are people on Earth, and there are ten or even a hundred times as many as that in your stomach." Her size comparisons even helped me to put it all in perspective. In a book meant to help young children understand just how tiny a microbe is, and what it is, Nicola Davies uses all of her incredible talent to bring that world to her readers. They live in places where nothing else does, like in volcanoes, or inside rocks, or at the back of your fridge." Microbes live everywhere - in the sea, on land, in the soil, and in the air. That's about the same as the number of people in the whole of India. ![]() "And a teaspoon of soil can have as many as a billion microbes. ![]()
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