{"id":313965,"date":"2010-02-12T22:26:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2010-02-12T22:26:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T03:26:12","slug":"cross-cultural-e-coli-aesthetics-the-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/313965","title":{"rendered":"Cross-Cultural E. coli Aesthetics | The Loom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple foreign editions of <em><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrocosm-coli-New-Science-Life%2Fdp%2F037542430X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1190687076%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">Microcosm<\/a><\/em> have arrived. They got me thinking about book design across the globe. The Chinese edition takes my world-within-a-microbe metaphor to cosmic extremes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2338 aligncenter\" title=\"Chinese Microcosm cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/02\/Chinese-Microcosm-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese Microcosm cover\" width=\"440\" height=\"627\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All of my Japanese editions have covers that are both cute and relevant. <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/&#x005927;&#x008178;&#x0083cc;-&#x00301c;&#x009032;&#x005316;&#x00306e;&#x0030ab;&#x0030ae;&#x003092;&#x0063e1;&#x00308b;&#x0030df;&#x0030af;&#x0030ed;&#x00306a;&#x00751f;&#x00547d;&#x004f53;-&#x0030ab;&#x0030fc;&#x0030eb;-&#x0030b8;&#x0030f3;&#x0030de;&#x0030fc;\/dp\/4140814039\/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1266031392&amp;sr=8-10\">Their edition<\/a> of <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMicrocosm-coli-New-Science-Life%2Fdp%2F037542430X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1190687076%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=carlzimmercom&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\"><em>Microcosm<\/em><\/a> is no exception. Who thought <em>E. coli<\/em> could have <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/7\/7e\/Cranes_Watanabe_Shuseki_Hanging_scroll_color_on_silk.jpg\">the delicacy of a crane<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The Front:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2342\" title=\"Microcosm japanese front cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/02\/Microcosm-japanese-front-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Microcosm japanese front cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"706\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And one more for the back:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2343\" title=\"Microcosm japanese back cover\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/files\/2010\/02\/Microcosm-japanese-back-cover.jpg\" alt=\"Microcosm japanese back cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"734\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/2wdCv1HMJ0agDWLQQNegioeRFSM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Loom\/~4\/TfU3NBvnLLM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/_ysccyjpzLY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple foreign editions of Microcosm have arrived. They got me thinking about book design across the globe. The Chinese edition takes my world-within-a-microbe metaphor to cosmic extremes. All of my Japanese editions have covers that are both cute and relevant. Their edition of Microcosm is no exception. Who thought E. coli could have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}