Scientists are studying what makes it possible for the extremely hard squid beak to be safely attached to a head and body with roughly the consistency of jello. Also in the comments we learn about bee spit.
Water bears can survive under the very very harshest of conditions. Also they are sort of cute and terrifying at the same time. And now they have made and survived (mostly) an unprotected near-earth orbit.
"Even human beings, Hugenholtz said, are subconsciously eavesdropping on chemical conversations between the inhabitants of our guts; this leads us to crave, say, potato chips when our microbes want salt. His eyes fell warily on his coffee. 'Do you think our stomach bacteria have trained us?'"
"What am I? A farmer?" I sort of can't help, despite the deep emotional troubles evinced by the eldest Baldwin, imagining everything he says in this article in 30 Rock mode, which is just sort of by it's nature, hilarious.
