But the wrist-deep discovery of earthworms elicited shrieks of disgust, and the bulbous acorn squash drew quizzical looks from some, including Zachary Katz of Jersey City, who recognized squash only in its "plate" shape.
Some of these cultural discoveries will point you toward a deeper discovery of our present moment, and others will lift you blissfully out of it — for a time.
"The fact that there are events that happen with no reason is one of the deepest discoveries of physics in the 20th century," Dr. Zeilinger said.
A new collection of serene video portraits called Deep Discovery involves images of beautiful women overlayed with footage of crashing waves, rising smoke, and running rivers.
Deep Discovery is part of an ongoing series put on by Ighile and El-Moussa called Visual Philosophies, a project that joins "the conversation between the elements," and practices, "being instead of having, because dancing between nature and space, we discover ourselves," according to their website.
Briefly, samples were collected on 0.1-μm filters from the brine seawater interfaces of Atlantis II Deep, Discovery Deep, and Kebrit Deep, Red Sea.
The find might also influence hunts for microscopic aliens perhaps hidden in the solar system's deep netherworlds, the discovery of which would prove that life in the universe is not unique to Earth but an inherent property of matter.
But the deeper discovery was painful.
A16 SCIENCE/HEALTH A Denizen of the Deep Researchers reported the discovery of a bizarre squid reaching 23 slimy feet in length lurking in the oceans' depths all across the globe.
Snowball Earth: The Story of the Great Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It by Gabrielle Walker 269pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99 In the Blink of an Eye: The Cause of the Most Dramatic Event in the History of Life by Andrew Parker 316pp, The Free Press, £18.99 The discovery of deep time, which first gripped the Victorians, still seems a revelation.
The course had a historical dimension, including an introduction on the discovery of deep time and Darwin's Beagle voyage (Lachina et al. 2007).
