If you think children spending time on the computer instead of reading books signals the end of civilization, you might be shocked to hear what Socrates thought about the written word.
Here is a moment of extravagant beauty: I drink it liquid from the shells of my hands and almost all of it runs sparkling through my fingers but beauty is like that, it is a fraction of a second, quickness of a flash and then immediately it escapes.
— Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life
If you happen to be a planarian then the answer is both yes… and no.
Using super-resolution video, scientists have for the first time captured the swarming madness inside a single living cell. Yet something about the elegantly crazed motion strikes me as familiar.