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A Ballad to Bacteria

Published February 9, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Turns out humans aren't the most destructive creatures on Earth. Microbes who spend their lives decomposing leaves are. Commentator Bill Harley has a song about soil bacteria gleefully at work creating entropy.

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