A letter from
the artist
// Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, Brooklyn
Just like the works of Shakespeare, the Old Testament, and the Harry Potter series all emerge from combinations of just 26 letters, so life exists through combinations of elements. The most primary of those being the 14th element, carbon.
subatomic
When things get small, they get weird. At this level, the laws of chemistry and physics operate on an entirely different set of rules.
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molecular
The universe might be made up of atoms, but molecules are where those atoms hang out — nestled in familiar combinations like salt (NaCl) and water (H2O).
cellular
Many competing theories attempt to explain how life on Earth began — the RNA, protein, the cell membrane hypotheses to name a few. All purport to reveal how single-celled, ocean-dwelling organisms first emerged.
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multicellular
Cellular organisms eventually found that they could be stronger and safer when they banded together. Kinda like a bunch of students clustering together at the middle school dance.
organism
Those simple organisms kept getting bigger, with whole sections specializing in some thing: energy production, food consumption, sensory perception. Who knew that billions of years later, they would be used to binge Netflix while eating takeout in bed?
society
Life is fundamentally about discovering and forming constructive relationships with the outside environment. Species that are isolated (like on an island) tend to become brittle and struggle to adapt to new threats.
