One display case, called "The Price of a Life, " brings the whole business down to a microeconomic scale, and features perhaps the most disturbing artifacts.

WSJ: Human Transactions | Spirits of the Passage | Frazier History Museum | By Mark Yost

Argo makes visible large-scale ocean and climate features and processes that were once hidden to scientists.

UNESCO: Building the Wealth of Nations

This project makes use for the first time of high resolution simulations from a state-of-the-art regional atmospheric chemistry model to capture both urban and regional scale air pollution features.

UNESCO: 2015 For Women In Science Fellows

The Maestro 4220 and 4200 each sport the same size screen and slim 0.7-inch design but scale back on some of the features like live traffic info and voice control.

ENGADGET: Magellan rolls out 4200, 3200 series Maestro GPS units

By the 1960s, scientists had developed a theory called plate tectonics explaining the locations of volcanoes and other large-scale geologic features.

BBC: The Pacific 'Ring of Fire'

Small-scale manufacturing activity features the processing of peanuts, fish, and hides.

FORBES: Gambia

"There are more features people want in the game, and there's no way we could scale enough people fast enough, " OMGPOP CEO Dan Porter told Mashable shortly after the acquisition.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

But, as National Geographic described last month, arenga does have some remarkable features that could provide an important, if small-scale, piece of the sustainable energy and development puzzle.

FORBES: An Energy Crisis Solution That Proves Small Can Be Beautiful