amoeba

“The European Parliament is a bit like The Blob,” she said, referring to the 1958 film about a massive amoeba that threatens to destroy the world.

There are several great record stores still in Southern California, from Amoeba in Hollywood to Fingerprints in Long Beach, though it’s a small fraction of what once existed.

It was decades after decades of trying to contain something as organic as music, like forcing an amoeba to hold a shape.

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

Mr Siddiqui, who is a dairy farmer, said he was reading about the effects of the Nipah virus - a boy recently died of it in Kerala - on social media when he chanced upon information about the deadly brain-eating amoeba.