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A Ballad to Bacteria

NPR

Published February 8, 2002 at 9:00 PM PST

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.