microcosms

Marine ecologist Mary O'Connor of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill set up five four-liter "microcosms" of seawater filled with microorganisms from the Bogue Sound estuary on the North Carolina coast.

Scientific American 2009

We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

In the ultimate analysis, social welfare maxes deriving the largest proportyion of its value from local/domestic economic microcosms.

Export-led growth?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The Barnum, San Fernando and the South Bronx projects are microcosms of the broader issues sweeping our country: low-income communities that have historically suffered from a lack of resources, high unemployment, poor housing, and substandard educational institutions.

Gary A. Officer: What We Shouldn't Leave to Debate: Our Nation's Priorities Gary A. Officer 2011

And so we talked about those fables, and about microcosms, macrocosms, Tic Tac box aquariums and The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.

Return of the wild she-wolves 2011

We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

Ages before modern physics revealed that the composition of an atom, with electrons who orbit a nucleus, are microcosms of a solar system, which involves planets who orbit a sun, the Taoists understood that this microscosmic principle exists and applies to all things as early as the 6th century BCE.

Olivia Rosewood: Please Meditate: Try the Tao (VIDEO) Olivia Rosewood 2012

We can be the vapid, self-consumed generation with our tweets and posts about nothing but our own microcosms or we can take advantage of this time and learn from the precedent set by the "greatest generation."

Scott Stenholm: 2001-2011: The Decade of Great Change & Tragedy Scott Stenholm 2011

That's the one that suggests that if universities have a primary purpose it is as forums of open curiosity and rigorous criticism, as microcosms of democracy and free inquiry.

Even in straitened times, we must encourage, not stifle, creativity | Tim Adams 2011