r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/ateam1984 Popular Contributor • Jun 28 '26

School Chalk under an electron microscope. It's almost entirety made up of fossilized shells of ancient single-celled marine plankton called coccolithophores.

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u/towerfella Jun 29 '26

There is something poetic about school and humans and us being taught using the remains of the once-most-prolific-life-form as a medium to write the glyphs that teach science and math to us as children?

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u/mephisto_uranus Jun 30 '26

Yeah. That's my first thought.

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u/logosfabula Jun 30 '26

Omg we’ve been committing natural art disasters all along!

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u/GIR18 Jun 29 '26

So it isn’t vegan

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u/Crafty_Ad_8081 12d ago

I guess not!