Amazing detail in dissected kidneys. Along the renal pelvis to a myriad of collecting ducts coming out of the renal medulla.
Science
The End of Everything
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52767659 Excellent book! Very much enjoying her style and humor while she teaches about the Ultimate end of it all. If you had to summarize it: enjoy the journey because the destination is bleak. Somehow Katie Mack makes this destination… Read More ›
Lunar Eclipse on a Cold Winter’s Night
January 20th was already very cold to start with and the night promised to be even colder. Bitter is the word that came to mind. With temperatures hitting minus 25 with a projected wind chill of -35 degrees Celsius, it… Read More ›
Bird Courses
I highly recommend the online Ornithology courses that Cornell University offers through the Bird Academy. The courses are very well laid out and can be taken at your own speed. I am in it the midst of two — a… Read More ›
Research at the Wet Collection
One of the most fascinating exhibits, that also serves as a functioning research room, is the Wet Collection of the Museum fur Naturkinde, in Berlin, Germany. This room is huge housing thousands of bottled specimens of preserved animals from around… Read More ›
Blue bells
Beautiful flowers, blue bells I think, along a ravine trail in Toronto. The first understory flower of the spring!
Oyster Mushroom Reproduction
Some images of sporulating Oyster Mushrooms in my lab, April 2017. Powder astride the bench are the billions of spores released from the yellow oyster mushroom. The blue one is about to sporulate.
Walden Ponderings 