The Reality Bubble by Ziya Tong review - blind spots and hidden truths | Society books ... - 0 views
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“To us,” she writes, “reality may appear human-sized, but in truth 95% of all animal species are smaller than the human thumb.”
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The matter and life we cannot see are demonstrated with stunning effect. Bacterial cells make up 0.2kg of your body weight; one handful of soil contains more microbes than there are people on Earth; the tiny particles called neutrinos generated by the sun’s nuclear fusion are so small that they can penetrate the Earth, enabling a subterranean observatory to come up with an image of the sun.
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In three sections – on biology, society and civilisation – Tong relentlessly focuses on all the things we either do not know, or decide not to pay attention to, as we carry on with our lives
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