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    Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year

    Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases

    Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory

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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/18/09

    In reply to Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
    Algae sex takes 2 hours? I think I'm jealous.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/18/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo:

    If it makes you feel any better its about the same percentage of time (comparing lifetime vs time having sex) for humans and Crustose Coralline Red Algae.

    On the other hand if it's the red algae from an algal bloom ("red tide") then they are still having sex about 1hr 59 mins 56 secs after they have died.
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/19/09

    @Jassen: I have anew goal in life.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/19/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Too become a large hazardous mass capable of destroying massive amounts of marine life ?
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    11/19/09

    @Jassen: No, to be having sex 2 hours after I'm dead.
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/19/09

    @Dr Emilio Lizardo: Think big, do both.
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/18/09

    In reply to Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
    15 reminded me of that Star Wars' singing lady with large lips...

    1, 6, and 9 are just awesome.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/18/09

    In reply to Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
    Eheheh, #3 looks like a bunch of crayon scribbles.
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    Image of Daveinva Daveinva
    11/18/09

    In reply to Algae Sex and Amoeba Smackdown - Best Microscopy Videos of the Year
    Amoeba! Amoeba!

    Two microscopic entities enter, one microscopic entity leaves!
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    Image of AthronofEryndor AthronofEryndor
    11/18/09

    @Daveinva: I would watch a show based on the premise of two microscopic organisms battling it out each episode. educational and awesome
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/18/09

    @AthronofEryndor: Until one of them has absorbed 20 or 30 of the others and then escapes and the show is suddenly "canceled", a spate of news reports of "unknown deaths" start happening around where the show was being filmed, roads are blocked, phone calls are jammed and the military presence starts getting scary and you know what happens next .....
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    11/18/09

    @Jassen: Heart click. For the comedy AND the use of 'spate'.
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    Image of icelight icelight
    07/22/09

    In reply to Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases
    By the time there are bacteria or parasites in your blood, you're going to be sick enough to need to be in a hospital already. Septicemia is not a fun thing at all. And if a hospital can afford a new-fangled cellphone attachment and the fluorescent tags, I think they could already afford a basic microscope.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/22/09

    @icelight: That's not necessarily true. First of all, you may be sick but without access to any diagnostic equipment. That's where this CellScope comes in. Second, as these researchers explained, this device is a lot cheaper than comparable microscopes, and it is portable. So researchers in the field could diagnose people and administer medicine without having to bring people possibly hundreds of miles to a hospital.
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    07/22/09

    @Annalee Newitz: Not to mention some of the places this is intended for doesn't even have hospitals to begin with.
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    Image of North Star North Star
    07/22/09

    In reply to Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases
    A portable microscope.

    This is a brilliant idea.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    07/22/09

    In reply to Use Your Cell Phone To Diagnose Blood Diseases
    Finally.

    I keep having these light-headed spells, and I really need a way to check for blood parasites.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    07/22/09

    @braak: Just think - you could be checking for them ALL THE TIME. On the bus, in the movie theater, at restaurants - all the places where you like to use your cell phone!
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/22/09

    @braak: in additional to blood parasites, frequent light-headed spells are indicative of being a pansy.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    07/22/09

    @Annalee Newitz: I think my problem would be resisting the urge to check the blood of people I interact with.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    07/23/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: it's less akward then telling them you belive them but you still need to see a clean STD exam before you go bareback. trust me.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    03/23/09

    In reply to Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory
    Ive seen bigger beer bongs before.
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    03/23/09

    In reply to Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory
    If you notice, there is no area to stand in or a control panel. The control room is above ground in a lead lined room.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/23/09

    @reddingofish: Oh yeah? How'd they get that picture taken, huh?? I knew it! You're ALL part of it!!
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/23/09

    In reply to Most Awesome Chemistry Machine at the Photon Factory
    The STM must be covered in tinfoil at all times to keep it out of the influence alien effector control.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/23/09

    @Grey_Area: Hahahah, don't you know? This IS alien technology! They got to you, too!
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/23/09

    @crashedpc: Yeah, but different aliens. We are but prawns in a vast game of clashing stellar empires.

    Didn't you get the memo?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/23/09

    @Grey_Area: *rummages through inbox* OH SHIT... it got stuck beneath the memo saying that I was the Galactic überLord. No wonder I didn't give a shit.
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    Image of RenRen RenRen
    03/05/09

    In reply to The Haunting Beauty At The Heart Of A Cell's Wounded Monolayer
    Believe me, once you look through a microscope, you'll never see the (known) Universe the same way ever again.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    03/05/09

    @RenRen: Yeah sorry about that super glue. We were expecting some one else to look through it first. You may want to avoid the restrooms on the second floor for a while.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    03/05/09

    @LittleDragon: AAAAARGH! Good thing I get wifi in the bathroom, cause now I know why I'm stuck here.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/29/08

    In reply to The Awesome Beauty Of Insect Brains And Single Cells
    Where did I see number three again? Oh yeah, the Deneva mission. Hurt like hell.


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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    12/29/08

    @NotChoinski:

    Looks more like a brain slug to me.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/29/08

    @ManchuCandidate:


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