by Christoph — Just let the deep ultramarine blue of the frontispiece sink in at your leisure. Take your time. Surely, You will soon realize that it is not a photograph of the night sky with the milky way and myriads of stars, but a detail from an oil painting...
Pictures Considered #4 by Daniel P. Haeusser — Robert Koch is one of the key figures in early bacteriology, helping develop culture techniques (e.g. solid media), critical reasoning (e.g. Koch's postulates), and disease etiology (e.g.cholera and tuberculosis). He also published the first photomicrographs of bacteria (Figure 1A) in his 1877 paperVerfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conservieren und Photographiren…
by Jan Spitzer — On October 28, 2010, Elio posted this Talmudic Question: "Richard Feynman, the famous physicist, said: It is very easy to answer many of these fundamental biological questions; you just look at the thing! To take him up on it, imagine a microscope that lets you observe single molecules in a…
by Patrick Keeling — I was on leave from teaching for a couple of years. The summer before re-starting my third year Protistology course I began to think about some things I wanted to change. One thing I wanted to do was to add a section on the history of microbiology to put things into perspective and...
