Tag: microscopic

Scapulomancing Hot Links

Violent Love (live), Oingo Boingo (1983) Ska cover of Willie Dixon’s 1951 classic. From the Utoobage comments:
“Fun fact: In the early 80’s when they performed this song, during the sax solo Danny Elfman would grab a random person from the audience and take them backstage. When they returned Danny would be zipping up his fly and the other person’s hair would be all messed up (and yes he did this with male audience members too).”

Ant baths.

Marli Toys.

GPS Doodles.

–And Yet Again

Map of Sounds.

Be the capybara.

The USS Harder.

Who’s That Lady?

Restored campers.

Create a password.

LBCP walks around.

Norty Blues Episode 69.

A Latvian Solstice serenade.

The Death of Poor Joe (1901).

The Witches Tower of Dayton.

Applaud as if your life depends on it.

Please look at this chicken [via Bunkerville].

Poppin lollies in da hood [via Mme. Jujujive].

Norman Rockwell’s reference photos [via Memo Of The Air].

[Top image: One of photographer Steve Gschmeissner’s microbeasties.]

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Dorkworm of the Deep

Hydrothermal Vent Polychaete Worm Viewed Under An Electron Microscope. Nicholas Gayet 2015

Photograph by Nicolas Gayet of the Paulo Bonifacio lab was a 2015 FEI contest winner.

Polychaetes worms are fascinating. One species are called “Zombie Worms” and includes the Osedax mucofloris, discovered in 2005. Its name translates to “bone-eating snot flower.”

[Image found here.]

Sea Lice

Sea lice are actually jellyfish

The term sea lice was inappropriately coined by residents who suffered strange rashes after swimming in coastal waters in the 1950s, according to the Florida Department of Health. (There is such a thing as actual sea lice, it turns out, but they are tiny parasites that affect fish, not humans.)

The rash that humans tend to get, on the other hand, “is caused by miniature jellyfish larvae trapped under bathing suits when in the water,” states a 2017 brochure available on the Health Department’s website.

“If pressure occurs from exercising, surfboards, lying on the beach, etc., stinging cells are released and cause itching, irritation, and welts,” the brochure continues. The larvae also like to hang out in people’s hair, so the back of the neck—where hair hangs down and touches the skin—is a common place for lesions.

[Image found here, caption here.]

One more thing to keep you awake at night.

This handsome boy is called a Demodex. Its dimensions are approximately 0.3mm, which means you can’t see it living on your face. Especially on your forehead, nose and chin. He’s always there and it will be that way forever. At night, they vigorously mate on your face and then lay its eggs in the pores of your skin. Funniest thing is that the Demodex have no anal orifice to evict. They accumulate and build up to death bursting with… feces. Right on the face. Sweet dreams everyone!

[Image and caption found here.]

Giant Paramecia

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No. 392 – Tardigrade Swim, Indecisive WTF Fish & The Chicken Whisperer

Tardigrade Swimming

WTF Fish

Hug Your Chicken

[Found here, here and here.]

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The Gif. Friday Post No. 362 – Tardigrade, Trampoline Parkour & Drive-Thru

Tardigrade

This little dude is awesome.

parkour trampoline

This little dude is not.

Drive Thru

This little dude is incarcerated.

[Found here, here and here.]

Tiny Beasties

You’ve never seen, felt, tasted or heard a single one of these denizens of our world, but they sense you. Not only that, the dorky dude with the  Simpsons eyes and funny teeth could save your life.

The BearPig-lookin’ animal is an 8-legged tardigrade that kicks ass and beats roaches on survivability in extreme conditions. I bet it eats live roaches too – it’s that badass. Even roaches can’t see it.

Click on the images to admire these cute lil’ buggers in large scale.

[More beasties with descriptions found here.]