TINY Things

All night, every time you breathe out, carbon atoms take off into the night air. Each carbon atom weighs a tiny fraction of a gram. But every breath expels roughly ten billion trillion atoms, so you wake up a pound lighter.

The Big Bang theory says our universe was created when a tiny (billions X smaller than a proton), super-dense, super-hot mass exploded and began expanding very rapidly, eventually cooling into the stars and galaxies of today.

The Lewis Chessmen, diminutive sculptures each with a comic expression, are probably most famous for their appearance in a scene from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival.

Every wedding has something, like less than desirable weather. I've had girls dancing in the rain and loving it and girls that make a mountain out of a molehill. It's all attitude: the more positive, the better the day goes.

Artist Stephen Glassman sees billboards as a potential tool for confronting pollution challenges as cities grow. Imagine dozens of billboards repurposed as mini-gardens, each creating a tiny, cool microclimate.

Anopheles mosquitoes carry the malaria parasite. The blood-seeking females inject these microscopic invaders, each bite acting like an infected hypodermic needle.

This Japanese art form uses miniaturized trees grown in containers. Its purpose is primarily contemplation, and the pleasant effort and ingenuity needed to tend to it.

Eighty-three percent of radiologists, well-trained in searching for minute cancer nodules, did not notice a gorilla the size of a matchbook in plain sight, glaring at them from inside the slide they were examining.

The Big Bang theory says our universe was created when a tiny (billions X smaller than a proton), super-dense, super-hot mass exploded and began expanding very rapidly, eventually cooling into the stars and galaxies of today.