billy dalto
I think this is a fine-looking dinoflagellate. I’d make it a mixtape if we were ever properly introduced.
(Source: Flickr / fei_company)
“We are embarked upon solving problems about physical reality. If it turns out that all this time we have merely been studying the programming of a cosmic planetarium, then that would merely mean that we have been studying a smaller portion of reality than we thought. So what? Such things have happened many times in the history of science, as our horizons have expanded beyond the earth to include the solar system, our galaxy, other galaxies, clusters of galaxies and so on, and, of course, parallel universes.
David Deutsch (1997)
(Source: superfluidity)
This is a typically short chain of diatoms of the species Achnanthes longipes. Though not pictured here, they often anchors themselves to a surface with a mucilaginous stalk.
I found this diatom for you, BB.
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Photograph by Frank Fox.
(Source: nikonsmallworld.com)
This is literally a golfer.
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The marine diatom Mediopyxis helysia, photographed by Wolfgang Bettighofer.
(Source: nikonsmallworld.com)
Gorgeous. This is the diatom Rhizosolenia setigera just after binary fission.
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Photo by Mr. Wolfgang Bettighofer
(Source: olympusbioscapes.com)
It never seems like there are enough Brainbow images around. This is a relatively new one from this year’s Olympus Bioscapes competition in which the cerebral cortex of a mouse has been Brainbow-labelled. This mouse was likely thinking about Christmas lights.
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Photo by Mr. Pierre Mahou, Dr. Emmanuel Beaurepaire, and Dr. Karine Loulier
Depending on the prevailing opinion of pennate diatoms in your workplace, this might be an image you should view after office hours.
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Lyrella hennedyi, from Nikon Small World.
I hope it goes without saying that anything which clearly has a belly full of diatoms is not welcome at any of my delightful garden parties.
I don’t have a cloaca and barring some fantastic turn of events never will. I do, however, have this image of the centric diatom Actinocyclus allinearius. This sample was collected off of the Islas Marías, Mexico.
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From the California Academy of Science on Flickr.
