Big day for noticing how much infrastructure we've built for a world we no longer live in. gizmodo.com/detroit-s-stre…

I noticed this gorgeous tulip, unlike any of the tulips around it, in my neighbors’ yard. I figured it was a mutation, but instead I learned something rather beautiful about a very timely subject: Viruses! We tend to focus of the viruses that affect us. Reasonable! But they are a tiny, tiny % of them. One estimate is that the world is home to 10000000000000000000000000000000 —“as in over 10 million times more viruses than there are stars in the universe.” nationalgeographic.com/science/phenom…