Today's little bit of joy is brought to you by this absolutely perfect filamentous cyanobacteria specimen. This beauty sits perfectly in a single plane, the whole thing in focus, and has both a heteorcysts AND an akinete.
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Today's little bit of joy is brought to you by this absolutely perfect filamentous cyanobacteria specimen. This beauty sits perfectly in a single plane, the whole thing in focus, and has both a heteorcysts AND an akinete.
“But, very basically, phase contrast and DIC are two ways to take advantage of a strange reality. Light actually travels further through some materials than others. Kinda.”
Journey to the Microcosmos- We Upgraded Our Microscope!
Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs
Euglena 630x, Oscillatoria & Euglena 200x, Amoeba 630x, Anabaena 630x, Ciliate 630x, Colpoda 630x
Another day of studying in our school’s Pharmacy building. It’s absolutely beautiful and very eco-friendly. I have an exam in my ‘Biology of Algae’ class this week as well as one in Microbiology so it’s going to be rough. Today I am focusing on my chlorophyta. I love the lab for this class. Here’s a pretty cool pic of some anabaena that I took at last week’s lab. I’m still having trouble making my own cross-sections of algae blades though.
Journey to the Microcosmos: How Cyanobacteria Took Over The World
Images Originally Captured by Jam’s Germs
Oscillatoria 200x, Coleps eating cyanobacteria 600x, Merismopedia 400x, Cyanobacteria 400x, Anabaena 400x, and Cyanobacteria 400x
Happy Friday. Have some algae!
There are 5 different species in frame.
Anabaena
On Living A Meaningful Life
On Living A Meaningful Life
The inimitable Hunter S. Thompson was just 20 years of ageand still in the U.S. Air Force when, in April of 1958, he wrote this profoundly wise letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice. It would be another ten years until Thompson’s own career gathered pace, due in no small part to a brave exposé of the Hell’s Angels that he wrote after a year in their company.…
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Coiled filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. (600x)