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Eat. Surf. Love.
It's the sand in your shoes, the wind in your hair, the rush of the waves, the music in your pulse; the things that keep us alive.
These are some of the musings of a mind that never ceases.
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September252012
The Wall Street Journal. A look at why science benefits from scrutiny of peers and rival scientists. Read essay.
June112012
Get your brain fix without resorting to cannibalism. Win win.
(via fyeahanatomy)
June52012
A Fruit Fly Embryo Montage
These brilliant photos, taken by the lab of Dr. Stephen W. Paddock from the University of Wisconsin, are various stages of embryonic development in Drosophila (fruit flies). Fruit flies are extremely useful (and popular) model organisms for studying developmental biology, basic biological processes, population genetics and other basic genetic processes (like mutation and disease).
Captions From the Stephen Paddock Digital Image Gallery
1 and 2- Triple-labeled Drosophila embryo at the cellular blastoderm stage. The specimen was immunofluorescently tagged with antibodies to the hairy protein in red, Kruppel repressor in green and the giant protein in blue.
3- The central nervous system of a Drosophila (fruit fly) embryo captured in a serial optical section by confocal laser scanning microscopy. This double-labeled fluorescent specimen reveals peripheral neurons in green and glial cells in red.
4- Presented below is a color mapped image of a Drosophila embryo, featuring stripes of the engrailed gene, which circle the embryo. The engrailed gene helps to direct fruit fly wing development, and mutations in this gene can affect how the wings appear in adult flies.
5- A tripled labeled fruit fly imaginal disc (developmental tissues from which many adult structures, such as eyes, wings, and halteres, are formed)
6- Triple-labeled Drosophila eye imaginal disc recovered from the third instar larval developmental stage.
These images are some of my favorites. Visit the gallery to see more amazing microscopy from this lab!
June42012
brit:
Want to grow your own veggies but don’t have a sunny backyard? Check out the incredible Kitchen Nano Garden concept by Hyundai. Definitely a gardening gadget straight from The Jetsons.
Gardening for the 1%
June32012
Different pages; same story. by DaedaLusT http://flic.kr/p/c2Sary
(Source: joelhamill)
May222012
A three day-old human embryo on the tip of a pin.
(Source: biologylair, via ohyeahdevelopmentalbiology)
May202012
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut, has one-upped us all.
He shot a series of 30 second exposures and stacked them make this amazing photo.
Star trails from space are so much cooler than star trails from Earth, in part because the city lights on Earth make trails, too!
May92012
(Source: doingitsouthernstyle, via pleatedjeans)
April242012
Tea Chemistry Set by Art Lebedev
Adorned with a traditional Gzhel pattern, this ceramic chemistry set has been repurposed as a Russian tea set. The best kind of science is the type you can drink.
(via: yankodesign)
(via freshphotons)
April182012
Would you carry around a foldable dry-erase board in your pocket? That’s what The Noteboard is pitching, and it’s pretty cool-looking. And for $10 bucks, not a bad deal — though making one yourself for a little more money is totally an option. Would you buy this? (ht TechCrunch)
Why yes, I would.
April172012
Images produced with Diffusion spectrum magnetic resonance imaging (DSI) a new tool developed by Van J Wedeen. Here’s an interview, and here’s a slide show.
(via freshphotons)
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