April 8, 2005

"The idea of having a big celebration of something that's so tiny — we're playing with the obvious absurdity of it."

It's really tiny and it's really old. 4.4 billion years old. Here, on display, in Madison: a bit of zircon!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 2:38 PM

1 comment:

Kevin said...

But Ann, what if someone sneezes around that thing?

heh

4/8/05, 8:44 PM

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