My doctor's appointment on Tuesday morning launched me into my waning years, I'm afraid. Now I admit this isn't the official way to define the "golden stage" of life, but to me once you have to take a drug everyday you're old....
Topics: aging, doctor, medicine

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The phrase is more commonly "getting your ducks in a row" but I never really understood the meaning of that and besides, there's a lot more bugs around here than ducks. So here's a perspective study with several moths lined up, more or..
Topics: art, bugs

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This is using a tri-chrome stain. The red is muscle and vascular tissue. The blue is adipose tissue and a special material we're using in our assay. The final color is black which stains the nuclei, but this magnification isn't high enough to see.
Topics: research, staining

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The lack of rain here is making even sweet and innocent petals droop. It's all very sad, y'know?

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Not much going on so I thought I'd share two pictures from the past week. This first one looks like a drowning bird. It's actually an "after shot" from the chicken I roasted last Thursday. The wings and a stub of the tail had roasted...
Topics: pictures

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