Mickey Mouse won an Academy Honorary Award in 1932, becoming the first non-human to win an Oscar. Disney’s Mickey’s Orphans was also nominated that year. Oscars were first presented in 1929 and the statuette is 13.5 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won all 11 […]
90% of cells in the human body are non-human, including fungi, bacteria, and viruses. The human gut alone has over 100 trillion microbial cells, and non-human microorganisms outnumber human cells by a factor of 10. Only 1% of all microbiota on and in the body has been identified. People have unique bacterial signatures, with each […]