by Scott Chim­i­leski — Have you ever vis­ited a nat­ural his­tory mu­seum and looked for mi­crobe ex­hibits? If you have, I'd bet you didn't find any. In my own searches, I usu­ally see mi­crobes rep­re­sented only by some species names writ­ten on a tree of life, or by a mi­nor sec­tion of an­other ex­hibit. When I first re­al­ized that mi­cro­bial life is a small frac­tion of con­tent on dis­play, I was shocked...