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Biological voyeurism
By Justin Paul
May 14, 2008
Scientists communicate with pictures (graphs, images, flowcharts, etc) because it’s often impossible to convey experimental results with just words. So a picture is truly worth a thousand words, right?
I checked this out by dividing the total words by the number of figure panels in a few recent Reports to Science and Letters to Nature. It seems a picture is worth more like 606 +/- 381 and 296 +/- 97 words, respectively.
Doesn’t matter anyways, because scientists are all watching movies these days. Watch the neutrophil (white blood cell) below chasing the little bacteria.
If you do not see the video please install the latest flash player.
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Comments
Comment from Joseph
Date: May 14, 2008, 1:33 pm
That is too cool! I wonder how they take videos like that?
Comment from Amy
Date: May 14, 2008, 3:09 pm
It’s like PacMan…only inside your body… Way awesome.
Comment from BriceWolfgang
Date: May 15, 2008, 8:24 pm
How hard would it be to make an organism that could survive on mars? Could it do anything useful there?
- Wolfgang
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