I’ve posted before about the Nikon Small World’s microscopy/photography competition. Today, however, focuses on another Maker of Excellent Photographic Equipment - Olympus. For the last 10 years (says the website), Olympus has been sponsoring an international microscopy (i.e.photographing things with a microscope) competition - The Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition - and this year’s winners have […]
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Nikon’s Small World photo competition winners 2012 now out!
Some things help one to mark time. For my little science blog, Nikon’s small worlds competition is one of these. As previously mentioned, each year the competition takes in entries of the best microscopy on the web, and then hurls awards at the ones it likes the most. And so, without further ado, this year’s […]
Selfies with Photosynth
A few months ago, I downloaded Microsoft’s Photosynth app for my iPhone. Now, before you all start shouting ‘Booooo!’, I’d like to point out that Photosynth has been around for a while, and is a pretty cool and clever piece of tech. Also, the app is a joy to use. Another reason I’ve been playing […]
OMG! Earth photography pr0n
Thank you, NASA, for once again providing really beautiful imagery. Fresh off the boat off the orbiting device*, a gorgeous ‘blue marble’ photograph of the little planet upon the surface of which we sail through our ever-expanding universe**. As NASA says: This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on […]
Science snippets
As my ‘Read Later’ list in Diigo acquires not only its own gravity well, but, at this point, its own set of physics laws, a post pointing to a couple of fun snippet-based science thingummies. The first is, of course, that this week’s TOSP is out. It covers everything from nanotech to transhumanism, space skiing […]
Brilliant photos of small things
Being a large fan of all things small, particularly when one is able to take photos of them, I bring you this: Yes, the results for this year’s Nikon Small World competition are in. Each year, the competition takes in entries of the best microscopy on the web, and then hurls awards at the ones […]
Why science denial is so very dangerous
I heart TED - something to which I’m sure I’ve confessed in past. This morning, I got a fantastic email with some of the latest talks to be posted on TED. While they’re all (of course) brilliant, I’ll make special mention of a talk, entitled ‘The danger of science denial‘, by New Yorker writer Michael […]
Would you like something scanned with an electron microscope?
Of course you would! Who wouldn’t? And have it you can. As I came into the work this morning, blearily clearing emails as I attempted to mainline some caffeine, I came upon an email most arresting. From an American company, ASPEX, it said that the company in question had a bit of an offer going […]
Stunning science imagery Pt I
Presents for your visual systems today… And we’ll be presenting two different people who’re merging science and visuals in new, and quite effective, ways. I know I have a previous post somewhere (probably on my old blog) about engineering photos as well, but I thought I’d start afresh. So, first up (because I saw it […]
Absolutely stunning: 100 days in Glacier National Park
I came across this stunning set of photos while trawling teh intertubes earlier today.(Click on picture to go to website)Western Tanager (Day 50)Credit: Chris Peterson 2009It’s a series of photos taken over 100 consecutive days in Glacier National Park…