Oct 21, 2010: It's a Small World

xoxoxoBruce • Oct 21, 2010 12:20 am

Nikon runs a yearly photo contest in microscopy.

Celebrating 36 years of excellence in photography through the microscope, The Nikon International
Small World Competition is dedicated to furthering creativity and excellence in photomicrography

This is the 2010 winner by Jonas King, Vanderbilt University.
Can you guess what it is?

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

Highlight below for the answers...
[COLOR="White"]#1, Anopheles gambiae (mosquito) heart (100X), #10, Crystallized soy sauce (16X)[/COLOR]

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Cloud • Oct 21, 2010 12:22 am

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!

SPUCK • Oct 21, 2010 5:01 am

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

Trilby • Oct 21, 2010 6:43 am

really cool!

I was way off on both - very interesting.

xoxoxoBruce • Oct 21, 2010 7:20 am

Cloud;689348 wrote:
...on second one, but not too far off!

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

Shawnee123 • Oct 21, 2010 8:24 am

Ummmm, soy sauce soft like pillow.

newtimer • Oct 21, 2010 9:23 am

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.

Sheldonrs • Oct 21, 2010 9:37 am

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

Shawnee123 • Oct 21, 2010 9:38 am

Sheldonrs;689387 wrote:
Mmmmmmmmmmm...Mosquito hearts and soy sauce...Yuuuummm!

This is the new haiku!

Gravdigr • Oct 24, 2010 6:13 am

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

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

Gravdigr • Oct 24, 2010 6:36 am

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

spudcon • Oct 24, 2010 2:50 pm

Gravdigr;690099 wrote:
These. Two. Things. Are. Not. Of. This. Earth. (The first one just plain scares me.)

How about THESE!

SPUCK • Oct 25, 2010 6:25 am

SEA MONKEYS!!!

xoxoxoBruce • Oct 25, 2010 8:49 am

Artemia NYOS. :p:

Shawnee123 • Oct 25, 2010 8:56 am

spudcon;690156 wrote:
How about THESE!

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.

Undertoad • Oct 25, 2010 9:26 am

I never realized it before but those sea monkeys are... nekkid!!!

xoxoxoBruce • Oct 25, 2010 9:31 am

What? That's the first thing I noticed as a yout. :lol: