Good morning with a micro-floral arrangement grown from a solution of a plavix pill--a blood-thinner med donated from a friend with a heart stent--that I crushed, dissolved, filtered and recrystallized onto a slide. A welcome drug side effect, this.
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Good morning with a micro-floral arrangement grown from a solution of a plavix pill--a blood-thinner med donated from a friend with a heart stent--that I crushed, dissolved, filtered and recrystallized onto a slide. A welcome drug side effect, this.
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Are you looking to jumpstart your career in science journalism and #scicomm? Applications for the 2023 Mass Media Fellowship are now open! Join the 800+ alumni of this program and use your science background to write science news across the country!
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This a Kasha Patel innovation. So it's gonna be good and funny. Go go for giving your writers the opportunity to explore new channels of communication.
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I now have a weekly @washingtonpost column called Hidden Planet, which explores wondrous science of Earth. My goal is to make you laugh + learn 
First up: how warmer temps are affecting how animals (& people!) date and mate. Text & video:
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro
I now have a weekly @washingtonpost column called Hidden Planet, which explores wondrous science of Earth. My goal is to make you laugh + learn
First up: how warmer temps are affecting how animals (& people!) date and mate. Text & video:
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro1
This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes
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Plant action potentials!
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Ever touched a sensitive plant (Mimosa pudica) and marveled at its leaves instantaneously folding? In this video you can see the electrical signals that mediate that rapid movement surging down the plant in real time
T. Hagihara et al go.nature.com/3GwUaSQ
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The World Cup is almost here, so for #MidWeekMiddleGrade, we're featuring the STAR STRIKER series by @maryamato, the perfect books for soccer fanatics!
#mglit #WorldCup #soccerbooks
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Good morning a few darkly radiant portraits of molecular ingredients of the allergy pill, Zyrtec. Known as cetirizine, the drug chemical is a 52-atom molecule (C21H25ClN2O3) whose geometric, electronic & other traits all influenced its recrystallization onto a microscope slide.
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These blue microglia, studied by the lab's Eugenie Peze-Heidsieck and Carlos Diaz Salazar, help cells in the brain communicate, fight infection and clear damaged neurons. A winner from Art in Neuroscience (bit.ly/3KoQuCy)
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Keep in mind: Earth is an exoplanet to every other planet outside of our own solar system.
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These animals live around the world, but you've probably never seen them!
Blue button jellies float on the open ocean's surface and only rarely wash up on beaches or close to shore, like this animal here.
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Good morning with a warning to beware of this zombie-eyed raptor, which emerged, golem-like, from recrystallizing vitamin C powder. Apologies: It escaped from my microscope slide into the night. Unless you are careful, it's feet and snout will run you through without remorse.
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Accidental philosophy: “Please pay your parking fee before existing.”
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Happy Halloween weekend with a menacing ghost mammal that showed up on a microscope slide on which I had recrystallized the contents of a long-expired analgesic pill (prescribed in 2014 for a back injury) that combines codeine and acetaminophen. I took the pic and bolted.
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Are you looking to jumpstart your career in science journalism and #scicomm? Applications for the 2023 Mass Media Fellowship are now open! Join the 800+ alumni of this program and use your science background to write science news across the country!
aaas.org/fellowships/ma
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Good evening with a sweet finale--a sampling of cane sugar, or sucrose--recrystallized onto a microscope slide from an ethanol solution and viewed with the facet-highlighting help of polarizing filters like those in your sunglasses.
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It's mentoring time! Serendipity worked it's magic and I was paired up with the awesome , who gave me great career advice and motivated me to keep going 🤓🧪🧬🛰️ #SciWriMentoring #SciWri22
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The Blunt-headed Burrowing Frog (Glyphoglossus molossus), alo known as balloon frog, is found in south east Asia and lives in tropical seasonal forests, moist savanna, intermittent freshwater marshes
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Good morning with a hidden microburst of recrcrystallized creatine, a muscle-amping amino acid, surrounded by crystalline reeds. Polarizing filters, like the ones in your sun glasses, leverage optical physics to coerce color from some of the facets.
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There are 12 black dots at intersections in this image. Your brain won’t let you see them all at once. Here's why [read more: bit.ly/2qxnuj5]
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Good morning with an homage to glutamine, one of the 20 amino acids that link into biochemical threads that, in turn, self-fold into the natural nanoscopic structures and machines on which everything you and I can do depends. Each microscape here would cover a sesame seed.
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The hallway illusion: cover the middle and you go faster, cover the sides to slow down
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Good morning with a few tour stops on microscope slides on which I recrystallized creatine (aka C4H9N3O2), an amino acid that revs up your muscles. Some athletes turn to it as supplement to enhance performance. Polarized light helps gives these crystals a bit of their wow.
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Good morning with a couple of hard-won microcrystalline views of creatine (aka C4H9N3O2), which your body makes to rev your muscles. That's why some athletes ingest extra creatine via a powder supplement. The area of each image is about the size of a lentil.
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Good morning with an overhead view of an innerspace coastline by a black sea in a minuscule landscape of vitamin C and the sweetener stevia recrystallized on a microscope slide. This cove would accommodate a lentil.
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Artist Kohei Ohmori spends more than 200 hours on each project with a striking attention to details. Ohmori's hyperrealistic designs are drawn with ultra-thin lines and remarkably steady hand
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Discovering how the brain works is one of the most fascinating mandates of our time. On 10/25, join Nobel laureate Richard Axel in a discussion with three Principal Investigators that showcase how is taking on this challenge:
zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/memory-senses-
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The Sun has horizontal stripes, like the belts Jupiter -- you just have to be extremely patient to see them. Soumyadeep Mukherjee spent a full year photographing the Sun & combined the result into an award-winning snapshot of Solar Cycle 25.
rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astro
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Good morning with a leafy crystallization performance by a multi-ingredient, no-rinse cleaner used in homebrewing. Beer and autumn for you in an area about the size of this O.
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Tonight at
Come for the laughs 😂
Stay for the feelings ❤️
storycollider.org/shows/2022/10/
#stories #truestory #storytelling #nyc #newyork #funny #feelings
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Each day, I am thankful for the opportunity to film nature’s beauty and share my images with a worldwide audience, all with the hope that people are seduced by the beauty of this planet, fall in love with it, and are willing to protect it. gratituderevealed.com
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Good morning with some tour stops on a microscope slide on which I repurposed the blood-thinner medicine, Plavix,which is part of a friend's health regimen. I suspect that several soluble components of the pill conspired into the overall composition and diversity o forms.
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People and , come tomorrow in person and join us as I interview my colleague, neighbor, and mentor Investigator Charles Zuker.
I will try to unpack the discoveries and the person behind the science. Should be fun.
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Good morning with a view on a microscope slide about the size of this O. Here, I repurposed a friend's heart med pill, , by recrystallizing its contents and viewing with optical filters that helped accentuate the facets and details of the film of crystals that formed.
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We’re hosting three writing workshops for academics in 2023 with the ’ James Ryerson, and ! All will pay $2k to 12 attendees, who leave with a workshopped piece + years of support. Apply for our March workshop by Dec 1!
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Autumn 2022: now live. Yet another fantastic collection of cutting-edge poetry from forward-thinking poets. Pairs well with a glass of cider. Link: bit.ly/3fvbRqi.
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Good morning with three tour stops on microscope slides on which I recrystallized the soluble contents of a Plavix pill (including its active ingredient, clopidogrel, aka C16H16ClNO2S) donated to me from a longtime friend who takes the blood thinner as part of his health regimen.
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It was a joy to learn about the brilliant neural wiring it takes for the olfactory system to discern thousands of different odors. I invite you to read my latest post on research at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. tinyurl.com/mpbdjvzr
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