Fungia feeding. Fungia are large individual corals that
don't form colonies or reefs. Their large and very expandable
mouths allow them to eat large pieces of food compared to
most corals. The movie was captured with epifluorescence, using
the Fungia's own natural auto-fluorescence stimulated by UV,
blue and green excitation light. James Nicholson, Coral Culture &
Collaborative Research Facility, NOAA NOS NCCOS Center for
Coastal Environmental Health & Biomolecular Research, Fort
Johnson Marine Lab, Charleston, SC, USA. Honorable Mention,
2009 Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition®.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
BioScapes Winner!!!!!!!!!!
Now in its sixth year, the Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition® is the world’s premier platform for honoring images and movies of human, plant and animal subjects as captured through light microscopes. Any life science subject is eligible, and entries are judged based on the science they depict, their aesthetics (beauty and impact of the image), and their technical merit. Top prize is $5,000 worth of Olympus equipment. This year, the competition received nearly 2000 entries that came from 62 countries. All images and the names of the Top Ten winners and Honorable Mentions may be viewed online at www.olympusbioscapes.com.
Many of this year’s winning images reflect the latest advances in neuroscience, cell biology, botany, zoology, and other sciences. Others reflect a never-ending fascination with the influence of science in everyday life, including surprising views of fossils, jellyfish, spiders, flowers, mosquitoes, and dinosaur bones.
Twenty-two of the 2009 winning and Honorable Mention images will be displayed in a winners’ tour that will travel to venues in San Diego, California, New York City; suburban Washington DC; Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities. Additional exhibits of BioScapes images will simultaneously be touring cities across the U.S. and Canada throughout 2009-10.
Olympus selects outstanding authorities in microscope imaging as judges for the competition, which is open to users of any brand of light microscope equipment. To maintain the competition’s integrity, the judges are not given information on what equipment was used to capture any of the images until after the judging. This year’s BioScapes panel of judges included four individuals renowned for their knowledge of microscope-based imaging. They are Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego; Kenneth N. Fish, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Douglas Murphy, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia; and Julie Theriot, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
Many of this year’s winning images reflect the latest advances in neuroscience, cell biology, botany, zoology, and other sciences. Others reflect a never-ending fascination with the influence of science in everyday life, including surprising views of fossils, jellyfish, spiders, flowers, mosquitoes, and dinosaur bones.
Twenty-two of the 2009 winning and Honorable Mention images will be displayed in a winners’ tour that will travel to venues in San Diego, California, New York City; suburban Washington DC; Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other cities. Additional exhibits of BioScapes images will simultaneously be touring cities across the U.S. and Canada throughout 2009-10.
Olympus selects outstanding authorities in microscope imaging as judges for the competition, which is open to users of any brand of light microscope equipment. To maintain the competition’s integrity, the judges are not given information on what equipment was used to capture any of the images until after the judging. This year’s BioScapes panel of judges included four individuals renowned for their knowledge of microscope-based imaging. They are Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego; Kenneth N. Fish, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Douglas Murphy, Ph.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Virginia; and Julie Theriot, Ph.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, California.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Cells Talk
SHE IS GREAT! .... NOW I UNDERSTAND ....molecular mechanisms that bacteria use for intercellular communication .... cells talking to each other...
IDEA ABOUT IDEAS
Techniques for teaching kids by using computers to illustrate experience in ways -– mathematically and scientifically -- that only computers can.
See how you feel!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demonstrates a new way to use fMRI to show brain activity -- thoughts, emotions, pain -- while it is happening. In other words, you can actually see how you feel.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Virtual Maps For The Blind
The blind and visually impaired often rely on others to provide cues and information on navigating through their environments. The problem with this method is that it doesn't give them the tools to venture out on their own, says Dr. Orly Lahav of Tel Aviv University's School of Education and Porter School for Environmental Studies.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910114152.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090910114152.htm
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
What is Science?
The vanguard of science has always been populated with young visionaries, those individuals who are motivated by impossibility and undaunted by failure, who operate and lead in a world in which cross-pollination and the synthesis of ideas are the norm.
Blue Dot!
In 2007, an HD camera aboard Japan's Kaguya satellite videotaped earth 'rising' and 'setting।' Set to music by Peter Rundquist, the images bring home the lonely, extraordinary nature of this "pale blue dot.
Steve Spangler discovers the microwave oven is not just for warming leftovers। Grab a bar of fresh Ivory soap and gather your friends around the microwave oven. Sure, you could do it at your home, but save this great trick for the break room or the staff cafeteria. In under two minutes, you'll have the best soap soufflé you've ever seen.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
B M Social Media Fortune 100
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B M Social Media Fortune 100
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Monday, July 27, 2009
Cool Image SItes, I think....
Russell Kightley Media creates and licences science graphics .... very cool stuff (http://www.rkm.com.au/)
In 1962 Wilfrid Sellars wrote an interesting doc .... check it out at: http://www.ditext.com/sellars/psim.html .... I like the name-PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF MAN
Since 1957 Photo Researchers has been a major provider of stock imagery specializing in healthcare, biomedical images and the natural and physical sciences. Check them out at: http://www.sciencesource.com/main.html
In 1962 Wilfrid Sellars wrote an interesting doc .... check it out at: http://www.ditext.com/sellars/psim.html .... I like the name-PHILOSOPHY AND THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGE OF MAN
Since 1957 Photo Researchers has been a major provider of stock imagery specializing in healthcare, biomedical images and the natural and physical sciences. Check them out at: http://www.sciencesource.com/main.html
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