Recently, both the Nikon Small World competition and the Astronomer Photographer of the Year competition announced winning visuals showcase the microscopic and macroscopic.
The Nikon Small World video winner shows cells moving in a developing zebrafish embryo. The astronomy competition selected a photo of Comet Leonard. Two very different things, right? But put them next to each other, and they look strikingly similar.
It’s not uncommon for microscopic images to resemble much larger phenomenon. In 2013, Stephen Young and Paul Kelly curated an exhibit of images that were either taken through a microscope, or showed much larger scenes from far away. The Weather Channel website still has many of the images, so you can test your skills at distinguishing big from small.
💡Interesting links
Is a book hidden inside a decades-old piece of concrete? From the University of Chicago
Listen to images from the James Webb space telescope, by Camilo Garzón for Scientific American
The Wizards of Mind Control. How parasites manipulate the behavior of their hosts. By Laith Al-Shawaf for Nautilus
For fellow music/geography nerds: Death Cab For Cutie released a geotagged single that you can only download at one of the many venues where they played over the years. (Reported for Wired by Marah Eakin.)
The Wellcome Collection currently has an exhibit about air, which includes (among other things) work by 19th century botanist Anna Atkins.
🔍 Reminder: Online training: Clever search methods for Google and beyond
A reminder that I’m holding a one-time only training on October 28 about searching online. I’ll be presenting a “Fiver Friday” webinar (lunchtime for the UK/Europe), in which I show you how to find everything online (and how to keep on top of interesting topics without being snowed under).
Great "Mixture". :)