Snapshots of the Microcosmos!
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Hello Foldscope community,
Microcosmos continually amazes me. In fact, it amazes me in at least three ways:
the biology (and other science) that users discover and capture is beautiful and fascinating the technological innovations and hacks that users invent are ingenious the variety of global locations from which posts are made is inspiring and eye-opening To celebrate these three facets of Microcosmos, I have compiled a list of some of my favorite posts within each of these categories. Whether you are new to the Foldscope community or have been here from the beginning, take a look and discover/reminisce over old posts. This is not a “best of” list, simply just a collection of things I have found helpful and inspiring. Add your own suggestions in the comments!
Incredible Biology
A complete Drosophila (fruit fly) life cycle: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10036 The color of butterfly wing scales: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8965 Beautiful diatoms: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16640 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=3414 Individual bacteria under the Foldscope: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18454 Exploding amoebas: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17130 Polychaete worms: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16408 Beating Daphnia heart: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=12198 Mealworms eating plastic: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=15161 Diversity of life in a drop of water: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16717 Sperm fertilizing a sand dollar egg: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16483 and sperm fertilizing a stickleback fish egg: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7841 A brine shrimp’s first swim: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=9618 Stentor, the king of ciliates: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14231 Spider development: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7792 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11113 Mosquito larvae breathing underwater: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10074 Technique
Focus-Locking and Using a Table Lamp for Darkfield and Pseudo-Phase-Contrast Illumination: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16093 Foldscope projection in camera lucida mode: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17097 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16684 Building micro-aquariums: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16915 Tips for wet mounts: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11304 Culturing ciliates: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=12672 Finding tardigrades: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17901 Another darkfield technique: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7042 How to build a plankton net: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17431 Using a flower petal to image itself (diffuser use): https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=9289 DSLR camera hack: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13564 Global Reach
Project SHINE in Tanzania: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8210 Detailed Account of Workshop in the Yucatan: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8219 Foldscope with the Argentina Minister of Education: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18547 August 2016 India workshops by super-user Laks Iyer: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18427 Foldscope at universities in Peru: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17649 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17152 First Foldscope club in the Philippines: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17528 Workshop in South Africa township: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16830 Looking for mosquito larvae to fight Zika in Honduras: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=15416 Foldscopes at schools in Nicaragua: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14738 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14704 Foldscope community in Afghanistan: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14671 Projection Foldscope to study sand in Brazil: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14262 Foldscopes with high-school and university students in Madagascar: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13416 Foldscopes in Kangemi slums in Nairobi: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13156 Foldscope distribution in Uganda: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13086 Flower petals in the Dominican Republic: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11444 Chilean Foldscope Project: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10398 Workshop in South Korea: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8337 Explorations in Indonesia: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8259
Microcosmos continually amazes me. In fact, it amazes me in at least three ways:
the biology (and other science) that users discover and capture is beautiful and fascinating the technological innovations and hacks that users invent are ingenious the variety of global locations from which posts are made is inspiring and eye-opening To celebrate these three facets of Microcosmos, I have compiled a list of some of my favorite posts within each of these categories. Whether you are new to the Foldscope community or have been here from the beginning, take a look and discover/reminisce over old posts. This is not a “best of” list, simply just a collection of things I have found helpful and inspiring. Add your own suggestions in the comments!
Incredible Biology
A complete Drosophila (fruit fly) life cycle: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10036 The color of butterfly wing scales: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8965 Beautiful diatoms: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16640 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=3414 Individual bacteria under the Foldscope: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18454 Exploding amoebas: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17130 Polychaete worms: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16408 Beating Daphnia heart: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=12198 Mealworms eating plastic: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=15161 Diversity of life in a drop of water: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16717 Sperm fertilizing a sand dollar egg: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16483 and sperm fertilizing a stickleback fish egg: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7841 A brine shrimp’s first swim: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=9618 Stentor, the king of ciliates: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14231 Spider development: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7792 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11113 Mosquito larvae breathing underwater: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10074 Technique
Focus-Locking and Using a Table Lamp for Darkfield and Pseudo-Phase-Contrast Illumination: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16093 Foldscope projection in camera lucida mode: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17097 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16684 Building micro-aquariums: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16915 Tips for wet mounts: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11304 Culturing ciliates: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=12672 Finding tardigrades: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17901 Another darkfield technique: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=7042 How to build a plankton net: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17431 Using a flower petal to image itself (diffuser use): https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=9289 DSLR camera hack: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13564 Global Reach
Project SHINE in Tanzania: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8210 Detailed Account of Workshop in the Yucatan: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8219 Foldscope with the Argentina Minister of Education: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18547 August 2016 India workshops by super-user Laks Iyer: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=18427 Foldscope at universities in Peru: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17649 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17152 First Foldscope club in the Philippines: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=17528 Workshop in South Africa township: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=16830 Looking for mosquito larvae to fight Zika in Honduras: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=15416 Foldscopes at schools in Nicaragua: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14738 and https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14704 Foldscope community in Afghanistan: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14671 Projection Foldscope to study sand in Brazil: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=14262 Foldscopes with high-school and university students in Madagascar: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13416 Foldscopes in Kangemi slums in Nairobi: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13156 Foldscope distribution in Uganda: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13086 Flower petals in the Dominican Republic: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=11444 Chilean Foldscope Project: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=10398 Workshop in South Korea: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8337 Explorations in Indonesia: https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=8259
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