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Diatom arrangements by Klaus Kemp

Over the course of human history, there have been many art forms which have achieved success before dying out due to a change in artistic tastes. Klaus D. Kemp is one of the leading figures in the production of diatoms which found fame in the Victorian age but fell from favor in the 20th and 21st-centuries. Kemp is the last practitioner of diatom production as he is the last known practitioner of this miniature art form. 

The artwork of Klaus Kemp is made all the more interesting and innovative because of the fact very little information was passed on for those following the Victorians in creating diatom arts. These diatoms are generally around five to 20 microns which are less than a single millimeter in size.

In creating his own version of the diatom, Klaus Kemp has been working to develop his own glass shells and glues which he has created to remain pliable for days to allow him to move the algae around. Kemp has continued to work on his artworks since his teenage years and brings to life a lost practice which died out of common use at the end of the Victorian age.

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"Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed finite system. In biology such behaviour of cells is called Cancer." - Hugh Culliton.

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i bet somebody’s made this already

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There Is No Biological Imperative

Finches, Plinko, and Le Guin

The problem with “believing science,” as it goes, is that science does not function the way religion does; science itself is not something to be believed or disbelieved. Science is a process. It is a system of arriving at conclusions through evidence. Thus, when the headlines proclaim, “Science Says [X]!” or “According to Science, [Y],” it’s weird, because science “says” nothing. Science happens.

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Next time you purchase white button mushrooms at the grocery store, just remember, they may be cute and bite-size but they have a relative out west that occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in Oregon's Blue Mountains. Put another way, this humongous fungus would encompass 1,665 football fields, or nearly four square miles (10 square kilometers) of turf. The discovery of this giant Armillaria ostoyae in 1998 heralded a new record holder for the title of the world's largest known organism, believed by most to be the 110-foot- (33.5-meter-) long, 200-ton blue whale. Based on its current growth rate, the fungus is estimated to be 2,400 years old but could be as ancient as 8,650 years, which would earn it a place among the oldest living organisms as well.

Anne Casselman, The Largest Organism on Earth Is a Fungus, Scientific American (October 4, 2007)