Sample taken from Mono Lake, California. Viewed with a Swift FM-31 Field Microscope and Nikon Coolpix 885 at 400X. Mono Lake is a soda lake [sometimes called an "alkali lake"] with a high salt content and a high pH. Such water is toxic to humans and most animals, yet a large population of microorganisms lives in Mono Lake. The algal cells are similar to Chlorella and coated the bottom of the shallows. Numbers of these Amoebae were found, busily munching the algal cells.

The Video Micrograph winner of the 2008 EIPBN Conference http://www.eipbn.org This video, by K. Yamazaki and H. Yamaguchi of Basic Research Labs, NTT Corporation, is shot through a scanning electron microscope at a magnification of 20,000X. The subject is a 3D nanostructure we made by using 3D EB lithography technique. You may be able to see something like a painting by Picasso. More micrograph winners are available at http://www.zyvexlabs.com/EIPBNuG/EIPBN2008/2008.html

Grand Prize Winner of the EIPBN Conference (http://www.eipbn.org) Micrograph Contest in 2007. The video, by Daniel Witte of Stanford University, is through an optical microscope at a magnification of 200X and is of a silicon wafer is etched in KOH, with the assistance of a laser. The beam locally heats the silicon, increasing the etch rate greatly. The "fireworks" are small pieces of silicon breaking free and dissolving in the KOH solution. Dark-field illumination brings out the edge features. Other micrograph winners available at: http://www.zyvexlabs.com/EIPBNuG/uGraph.html

http://vsa-watches.blogspot.com/ TAG Heuer's story In 1860, the young Edouard Heuer - just 20 years old - founded a watchmaking shop at Saint Imier in the Swiss Jura under the name of "Edouard Heuer, Watchmaker". The company changed its name several times before finally settling on TAG Heuer in 1985. TAG Heuer has left its mark on the history of Swiss watchmaking, starting with the 1887 oscillating pinion up to the 2007 Link Calibre S. Over 145 years of watchmaking know-how and technical innovation has made it today's ultimate reference in avant-garde sports watches. 1887: Patent for the renowned "oscillating pinion". 1911: TAG Heuer develops its famous "Time of Trip", the first dashboard chronograph designed for cars and aircraft. 1916: Patented in 1916 and used during the Antwerp, Paris and Amsterdam Olympic Games, the Micrograph was the first stopwatch accurate to 1/100th of a second. 1920: Heuer is timekeeper for the Antwerp Olympic Games, followed by Paris in 1924 and Amsterdam in 1928. 1933: launch of Autavia, the first dashboard stopwatch for racing cars and planes, often combined with the Hervue 8-day watch. 1950: launch of the Mareograph, featuring a tide indicator and chronograph functions. 1962: the astronaut John Glenn sets off on the first American manned spaceflight with a Heuer stopwatch on his wrist. 1964: launch of the Carrera series. 1966: TAG Heuer patents the Microtimer, first miniaturised electronic timer accurate to 1/1000th of a second. 1969: presentation of the Chronomatic Calibre 11, one of two first movements for automatic chronographs. Launch of the legendary Monaco in the same year. 1972: launch of the Microsplit 800, first pocket quartz stopwatch in the world to be accurate to 1/100th of a second. 1975 : launch of the first wrist quartz chronograph in the world - the Chronosplit - accurate to 1/100th of a second. 1987: TAG Heuer launches the Sport/Elegance, a unique sports watch as elegant as it is functional. 2003: presentation of the Microtimer, a true wrist timer accurate to 1/1000th of a second. 2004: Presentation of the Monaco V4 chronograph concept at the Basle Fair. The Monaco 69 is awarded the Geneva Watchmaking Grand Prix in the Best Design category. 2005: presentation of the Calibre 360 Concept Chronograph, first mechanical wrist chronograph accurate to 1/100th of a second. Launch of the Professional Golf Watch developed with Tiger Wood. 2006: Basle presentation of the Monaco Calibre 360 LS Concept Chronograph. Launch of the Carrera Calibre 360 pink gold limited edition. 2007: presentation of the Link Calibre S.

Motion of Mars lichen under microscope. Use full screen mode. Source and background info is at: http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/MarsLichen.pdf

This is a sample of prostatic fluid taken from patientX; indications of prostatitis Micrograph is approx. 1600X phase contrast. The object is easily overlooked due to transparency. The unknown organism is displaying excystation qualities similar to spirochete bacteria. There are no spirochetes observed in patient. The object emerged from macrophage.

A marine rotifer feeding under a microscope

my first bug video with new micro camera

Created by Luis Concha and Daniel Torres University of Alberta, Canada. Please note: This work is licensed using Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Please email me if you would like to use this video. Note: Send email to my gmail account (below). lconcha __ at ___ gmail.com http://lconcha.googlepages.com/ The complex circuitry interconnecting different areas in the brain, known collectively as white matter, is composed of millions of axons organized into fascicles and bundles. Upon macroscopic examination of sections of the brain, it is difficult to discern the orientation of the fibers. The same is true for conventional imaging modalities. However, recent advancements in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) make such task possible in a live subject. By sensitizing an otherwise typical MRI sequence to the diffusion of water molecules it is possible to measure their diffusion coefficient in a given direction1. Normally, the axonal membrane and myelin sheaths pose barriers to the movement of water molecules and, thus, they diffuse preferentially along the axon2. Therefore, the direction of white matter bundles can be elucidated by determining the principal diffusivity of water. The three-dimensional representation of the diffusion coefficient can be given by a tensor and its mathematical decomposition provides the direction of the tracts3; this MRI technique is known as diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). By connecting the information acquired with DTI, three-dimensional depictions of white matter fascicles are obtained4. The virtual dissection of white matter bundles is rapidly becoming a valuable tool in clinical research. Our journey begins with a transverse section of tightly packed axons as seen through light microscopy. Although represented as a two-dimensional "slice", we see that these axons in fact resemble tubes. A simulation of water molecules diffusing randomly inside the axons demonstrates how the membranes and myelin hinder their movement across them and shows the preferred diffusion direction --along the axons. The tracts depicted through DTI slowly blend in and we ride along with them. As we zoom out even more, we realize that it is a portion of the corpus callosum connecting the two sides of the brain we were traveling on and the great difference in relative scale of the individual axons becomes evident. The surface of the brain is then shown, as well as the rest of the white matter bundles--a big, apparently chaotic tangle of wires. Finally, the skin covers the brain. With the exception of the simulated water molecules, all the data presented in the animation is obtained through microscopy and MRI. Computer algorithms for the extraction of the cerebral structures and a custom-built graphics engine make our journey through the brain's anatomy possible in a living person. Micrograph courtesy of Dr. Christian Beaulieu, University of Alberta. Music by Mario Mattioli. References: 1. Stejskal, E.O., et al., J. Chem. Phys., 1965. 42: 2. Beaulieu, C., NMR Biomed., 2002. 15:435-55. 3. Basser, P.J., et al., J. Magn. Reson. B, 1994. 103:247-54. 4. Mori, S., et al., NMR Biomed., 2002. 15:468-80.

A bug up close and personal

You may not believe it, but ferns have motile sperm-this video is proof!

Biochemistry III (Prof. Graham Walker) View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/7-014S05 License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu

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National Institutes of Health Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications Basic Medical Pathology: Morphological Expressions of Cell Injury AVA19672VNB1 - 1994 The video tape defines and describes injuries sustained by cells when they are exposed to stress and are unable to adapt. The results of cell injury are shown with photomicrographs, organ photographs, and electron micrographs of normal and injured cells.

Dave Kemp and Kevin Robbie presented Image Matter at the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre. Kemp explains.

The great debate is over.. evil-lie-tion is debunked What would constitute objective proof of God? Well, consider the following self-evident and universally recognized truth: Concept and design necessitate an intelligent designer. The presence of intelligent design proves the existence of an intelligent designer. It's simply cause and effect. In our search for proof of God's existence, we could examine the various claims of supernatural occurrences, determine whether or not these are legitimate experiences, and build a case for the existence of the supernatural, which would be a step towards identifying a supernatural Creator God. Or we can just apply what we already know and search for signs of intelligent design within creation itself. We know that design necessitates a designer. In fact, in accordance with this fundamental axiom, design detection methodology is a prerequisite in many fields of human endeavor, including archaeology, anthropology, forensics, criminal jurisprudence, copyright law, patent law, reverse engineering, crypto analysis, random number generation, and SETI. And how do we recognize intelligent design? In general, we find "specified complexity" to be a reliable indicator of the presence of intelligent design. Chance can explain complexity alone but not specification -- a random sequence of letters is complex but not specified (it's meaningless). A Shakespearean sonnet is both complex and specified (it's meaningful). We can't have a Shakespearean sonnet without Shakespeare. (William A. Dembski, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance through Small Probabilities, 1998.) Proof of God - Nature So where's the proof of God's existence? In accordance with our familiar axiom and in light of the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics and information theory, the proof of God is all around us! Through the microscope, we observe the E. coli bacterial flagellum. The bacterial flagellum is what propels E. coli bacteria through its microscopic world. It consists of about 40 individual protein parts including a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It's a microscopic outboard motor! The individual parts come into focus when magnified 50,000 times (using electron micrographs). And even though these microscopic outboard motors run at an incredible 100,000 rpm, they can stop on a microscopic dime. It takes only a quarter turn for them to stop, shift directions and start spinning 100,000 rpm in the opposite direction! The flagellar motor has two gears (forward and reverse), is water-cooled, and is hardwired into a signal transduction (sensory mechanism) so that it receives feedback from its environment. ("Unlocking the Mystery of Life," video documentary by Illustra Media, 2002.) When we apply the general principles of detecting specified complexity to biologic systems (living creatures), we find it reasonable to infer the presence intelligent design. Take, for example, the bacterial flagellum's stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, and propeller. It is not convenient that we've given these parts these names - that's truly their function. If you were to find a stator, rotor, drive-shaft, U-joint, or propeller in any vehicle, machine, toy or model, you would recognize them as the product of an intelligent source. No one would expect an outboard motor -- much less one as incredible as the flagellar motor -- to be the product of a chance assemblage of parts. Motors are the product of intelligent design. Furthermore, the E. coli bacterial flagellum simply could not have evolved gradually over time. The bacterial flagellum is an "irreducibly complex" system. An irreducibly complex system is one composed of multiple parts, all of which are necessary for the system to function. If you remove any one part, the entire system will fail to function. Every individual part is integral. There is absolutely no naturalistic, gradual, evolutionary explanation for the bacterial flagellum. (Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, 1996.) The bacterial flagellum (not to mention the irreducibly complex molecular machines responsible for the flagellum's assembly) is just one example of the specified complexity that pervades the microscopic biological world. Molecular biologist Michael Denton wrote, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 grams, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machinery built by man and absolutely without parallel in the non-living world." (Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, 1986, p. 250

Seattle Creation Conference August 23-25 2007 http://conference.nwcreation.net/index.html The fourth annual Seattle Creation Conference was a three day event dedicated to glorifying God through the scientific study of His creation, and refuting the false claims of evolutionism. The presentation is a hard-hitting look at the War of Worldviews facing Christians today, and examines the factors that have contributed to the secularization of US schools. In 1 Peter 3:15 we are instructed to "Always be prepared to give an answer," and yet most Christian are unable to defend their faith through logic, reason, and empirical evidence. Using recent surveys and events to demonstrate the effects of evolutionism on society, this message will inspire those who attend toward scholarly pursuits in creation apologetics. Also contained within this presentation are numerous illustrations of beauty and wonder made evident through the electron microscope that offer a testimony to the glory of God, but which hasn't been seen until modern times. With evolutionary indoctrination reaching epidemic proportions, these previously unseen treasures provide valuable tools for creation evangelism. Topics Include: 1. The Creation 2. Electron Micrographs - Evidence of Design 3. Discrimination of Creationists in Public Schools 4. War of the World Views 5. Percentages of Scientists that Believe in God 6. The National Academy of Sciences 7. The Secularization of US Schools and its Impact 8. The Decline of Christian Scholarly Pursuit 9. The Bible and Education

An edited video of a series of optical micrographs showing the damage generated by 5.0 W laser light. The interval of the vertical lines is 17.8 um. The viewing speed of the video is about 50,000 times slower than the propagating speed of the 5.0-W-pumped optical discharge. See http://www.geocities.jp/tokyo_1406/node2.html#link:fibfuse Read my essay at http://www.geocities.jp/tokyo_1406/node2.html#Todoroki07Serendip

Images of snow crystals from a variety of sources who spent too much time in the cold room all set to the music of Jeff Berlin from his Lumpy Jazz CD.

Seattle Creation Conference August 23-25 2007 http://conference.nwcreation.net/index.html The fourth annual Seattle Creation Conference was a three day event dedicated to glorifying God through the scientific study of His creation, and refuting the false claims of evolutionism. The presentation is a hard-hitting look at the War of Worldviews facing Christians today, and examines the factors that have contributed to the secularization of US schools. In 1 Peter 3:15 we are instructed to "Always be prepared to give an answer," and yet most Christian are unable to defend their faith through logic, reason, and empirical evidence. Using recent surveys and events to demonstrate the effects of evolutionism on society, this message will inspire those who attend toward scholarly pursuits in creation apologetics. Also contained within this presentation are numerous illustrations of beauty and wonder made evident through the electron microscope that offer a testimony to the glory of God, but which hasn't been seen until modern times. With evolutionary indoctrination reaching epidemic proportions, these previously unseen treasures provide valuable tools for creation evangelism. Topics Include: 1. The Creation 2. Electron Micrographs - Evidence of Design 3. Discrimination of Creationists in Public Schools 4. War of the World Views 5. Percentages of Scientists that Believe in God 6. The National Academy of Sciences 7. The Secularization of US Schools and its Impact 8. The Decline of Christian Scholarly Pursuit 9. The Bible and Education Recently I [Ken Ham] read an article in Current Comments, by Gerald Hoiton, Professor of Physics and Professor of History of Science at Harvard University. In this article. Professor Holton used the term "anti-science" as an attack on creationists. He lumped creationists in with those who study UFO's, paranormal phenomenology, New Agers, etc. In the rest of the article, creationists and anti-evolutionists feature prominently as an obvious danger to society. Professor Holton offers practical ways to overcome this situation. He is advocating taking children at an early age and totally indoctrinating them in what he calls, "conventional science" (which is nothing more than atheistic evolutionary philosophy), and making sure that those who educate them have passed through the same indoctrination process. This is nothing less than absolute mind control. - http://www.icr.org/article/730

It is the world's only human calvarium fossil, containing the oldest human brain tissue. The brain tissue was so well preserved that the nuclei of its neuroglia cells are seen in micrographs. See the brain tissue and neurons at: http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=13&f=o1588634851.jpg&p=27 http://www.wretch.cc/album/show.php?i=lin440315&b=19&f=o1328514839.jpg&p=33 http://www.wretch.cc/mypage/lin440315

this is real. to all those who work at drug companies that manufacture hiv medications, it is your responsibility to know whether or not hiv medications are appropriate treatment before allowing people to use them. it is your responsibility to base your research on verifiable science determining that hiv is the cause of AIDS. and reproducing that evidence without failure. it has come to my attention that the micrographs of hiv are fraudulent. it is your responsibility to know this. you have failed to provide that information. it has also come to my attention that the leading cause of death among those diagnosed with AIDS is organ failure due to toxic hiv medications and yet the drugs are still manufactured and prescribed. please tell me how i can forgive you all for continuing without regard for human life in light of all this information. how is it possible that you can continue to cause so much pain and suffering to so many? may God have mercy on your souls. gregory

Flower shots through a digital microscope, with a little outside jazz. Made with QlipBoard, free at www.qlipmedia.com

17th international phage biology meeting - Olympia WA, USA August 2007 Meeting featured in 'The Health Value Of Bacteriophages' - a Winston Churchill Fellow's Report. Slide show preview of video, compiled by Grace Filby. Mount Rainier; Olympic National Park; Capitol Building at Olympia; George Washington; Puget Sound; Evergreen State College campus; Arrowsmith; phage talks; phage poster presentations: genomics, ecology, molecular structure and mechanisms, phage technology, phage therapy; traditional native American salmon bake; a look at electron micrographs of bacteriophages; phage therapy artwork; farmers market; phage labs; city of Seattle. Photos: Bill V. Way; Grace Filby Music: Vivaldi - 4 Seasons - Autumn - www.mfiles.org.uk Churchill Report: The Health Value Of Bacteriophages - www.wcmt.org.uk (Science and Technology)