pinhead

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They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this with a brain that's tinier than a pinhead.

From BBC • Dec. 28, 2024

With a brain the size of a pinhead, insects perform fantastic navigational feats.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2024

I’m a mere critic, not a network pinhead, as David Letterman referred to executives who made these kinds of decisions, but that doesn’t mean I can’t dream up cockamamie ideas.

From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023

To investigate, researchers coated 14 species of coral—10 in the lab and four in the wild—with tiny fluorescent beads, which are each smaller than a pinhead and glow under light-emitting diode light.

From Science Magazine • May 12, 2022

By the time we reach Pluto, we have come so far that the Sun–our dear, warm, skin-tanning, life-giving Sun–has shrunk to the size of a pinhead.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson