Oct 21, 2010: It's a Small World
 

Nikon runs a yearly photo contest in microscopy.
This is the 2010 winner by Jonas King, Vanderbilt University.
Can you guess what it is?

http://cellar.org/2010/nikon1.jpg


This was one that caught my eye, #10 by Yanping Wang, Beijing Planetarium.
What do you think this is?

http://cellar.org/2010/nikon2.jpg

Highlight below for the answers...
#1, Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100X), #10, Crystallized soy sauce (16X)

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my guess without looking: top --looks like a textile or fiber; bottom--salt

eta: lol! way off on first one; off on second one, but not too far off!

Cloud; I guessed wool... Way off too.

really cool!

I was way off on both - very interesting.

Actually, you were probably right. It might have been that in it. :thumb:

Ummmm, soy sauce soft like pillow.

I thought they were both props from the new Tron movie. Wrong and wrong.

Spend some time clicking through the other entries to the contest. They're impressive.

Mmmmmmmmmmm...Mosquito hearts and soy sauce...Yuuuummm!

This is the new haiku!

The first one looks like Edvard Munch painted a bridge at night.

The second made me think of a table cloth. What?

These. Two. Things. Are. Not. Of. This. Earth. (The first one just plain scares me.)

How about THESE!

SEA MONKEYS!!!

Artemia NYOS. :p:

I think my Sea Monkeys were all inbred and stupid. I never once saw them turn on the television or pick up the mail. I had, like, the carnival freaks of the Sea Monkey continuum.