There is a difference between a frog and a toad but as I’m lying on my back on a rug on the grass and the thermometer is nudging thirty I really cannot muster the enthusiasm to go and find out what it is. Up above me the swifts are drawing patterns in the sky with … Continue reading Now there’s not one toad but two
Seventy percent
The vast majority of the cells in my body don't belong to me. They belong to other forms of life, as much as seventy percent I'm lead to believe. Some of them are parasites but most live happily with the real me, the one you see, in a symbiotic relationship. The first group, the nematode … Continue reading Seventy percent