In Boccaccio's tales, the world is like the tiny natures mortes, corners of landscapes, and background-figures of some of our fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century painters.
The excitement with which people have joined the project is palpable and the accessories they began to make are rather mind-blowing, from tiny handmade nature books with original illustrations by Celia Hart to Emma Herian's needlefelted terriers, who have more charisma than Basil Brush.
Ever since he heard about biofuel photobioreactors, Bryan Willson, has seen raw power in tiny algae, nature's fastest-growing organisms.
The courts regarded software as merely a collection of mathematical algorithms, tiny revelations of nature's secrets -- not as an invention, and thus not patentable.
These unlikely surroundings still amaze her, growing up as she did in tiny apartments where nature meant a sooty picnic within view of skyscrapers.
One of the most pleasing discoveries is Fleming Cunningham's nine-unit study of tiny bits of nature, each isolated and presented as wonderful schemes of vines or pods.
It works on so many levels, making the reader stop and think about the rhythms of our lives and the enormous impact of one tiny twist of nature on the world, a community and a family.
But for fans of the original Swedish films, Ms. Rapace (pronounced Ra-PAHSS) will forever embody Lisbeth Salander, Larsson's avenging angel: razor sharp and tough as tungsten, a tiny freak of nature able to bring a man twice her size to his knees.
We flew from San José to Tortuguero on the Caribbean coast on a tiny twin-prop Nature Air plane (returns from $122) and worked our way along bone-shaking roads to the Manuel Antonio national park on the Pacific coast, visiting the Arenal volcano and the Monteverde cloud forest.
