Let. Love. Grow.

Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.

[mikaelanichole]

For your antibiotics plates, what were the other antibiotics and what type of agar did you use? Thanks!

We tested penicillin, tetracycline, erythromycin, and novobiocin. And it was just an agarose gel plate and we created a lawn of bacteria by streaking the 3 different bacteria on separate plates.

[vero-in-technicolor]

The only way we should ever shoot an animal is with a camera

[kaliforhnia]

If they miss you, they’ll call. If they want you, they’ll say it. If they care, they’ll show it. If not, they aren’t worth your time.

(via kaliforhnia)

I need to remember this

[mikaelanichole]

I did a little experiment and it turns out lavender essential oil is just as effective, if not more effective than certain antibiotics. The spot with the oil is marked with an ‘x’ and the clear spot around it means it killed the bacteria. On the middle petri dish you can see that lavender was effective against E.coli when even penicillin (p) wasn’t!! I’m geeking out a little bit over here.

[mikaelanichole]

It's beginning to look a lot like winter around here!

[mikaelanichole]

Limnology labs aren't so bad when you get to visit such beautiful places! I also learned that measuring stream velocity is my new calling in life. Also, you can bet that I was rocking some seriously awesome wadders while this was all occurring.

[mikaelanichole]

Excuse me while a be a science nerd real quick. Those blue blobs are my bacterial babies that I have been growing all semester. Aren’t they just the cutest?

[onceuponawildflower]

[mikaelanichole]

Who else would love to live in this house?!

[mikaelanichole]

[theanimaleffect]

I didn’t even try to stop this

[mikaelanichole]

This kills me every time!!

[mikaelanichole]

Never knew how much I had begun to love running until an injury put me out at the end of the season. I am so incredibly sad that I won't be able to run at regionals next weekend with my team :(

[mikaelanichole]

[mikaelanichole]

Vegan cupcakes are my life.

[ethicalsoldiersailorvegan]

Nick Coughlin with Gina Matthews

It’s heartening to see the public outcry over the senseless killing of Cecil the lion. He was a beautiful and regal being loved by many people, and the incident has raised the question among many thousands of people around the world, “Should it be OK to kill a lion for the purposes of ‘sport’ or entertainment?”

Right now there is a cow living in a crowded, dirty feedlot, who, in a matter of days will march in fear down a dark corridor. At the end of the line a man will shoot a captive bolt through his skull and into his brain, then hoist his young body by one back leg with a large chain, and slit his throat. He will dangle there, hopefully bleeding to death before workers begin to tear his body apart.

“Sure, it sounds horrible and sad,” some might say, “but that’s for food, not for entertainment!”

If we can eat tasty, healthy food that gives us all the nutrients we need to survive and doesn’t require killing an animal, but choose instead to kill and eat an animal because we enjoy the way his body tastes…aren’t we also killing in the name of entertainment?

Let Cecil inspire you to broaden your circle of compassion to include the animals hidden away on farms who are dying each and every day simply because we enjoy the flavor of their bodies.

If you’re interested in reducing or eliminating meat from your diet, here’s a free resource: http://goo.gl/cyGH3h

[mikaelanichole]

It's Global Tiger Day everyone!

[mikaelanichole]

Do one thing every day that scares you -Eleanor Roosevelt (at Minnesota Zoo)

[mikaelanichole]

Best sign I've ever seen! Stop eating animals!!