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This is a 440-pound heart from a blue whale, the largest known animal to ever exist. The heart was so large that technicians had to douse it in 1,000 gallons of formaldehyde. Read more about it here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/painstaking-process-preserving-blue-whales-heart-180964038/
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The Painstaking Process of Preserving a 400-Pound Blue Whale Heart
This massive specimen is now on display in Canada’s Royal Ontario MuseumJennifer Nalewicki (Smithsonian Magazine)
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PhyloPic
PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.Mike Keesey (PhyloPic)
If you are looking for a great resource to teach virus diversity, look at this.
"Virus Explorer" will not disappoint your students.
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⏯️https://media.hhmi.org/biointeractive/click/virus-explorer/
I’m also somewhat known porting a C. elegans nervous system model (connectome) to the Arduino Uno, so it could be used in very low cost or resource constrained platforms.
Yes, this is a robot that thinks it’s a worm, lol
Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2017/10/13/nematoduino-a-roundworm-neural-model-on-an-arduino/
#introductions #stem #eduction #robotics #arduino #maker #biology #science
Nematoduino: A Roundworm Neural Model On An Arduino
When it comes to building a neural network to simulate complex behavior, Arduino isn’t exactly the first platform that springs to mind. But when your goal is to model the behavior of an organ…Hackaday
Teaching Tools in Plant Biology
Teaching Tools in Plant Biology, published by the American Society of Plant Biologists, combines up-to-date peer-reviewed research-based content with flexible pOxford Academic
I’ve been #scicomm ing my #research on #twitch - I'm developing #3dprinting inks from seaweed and other #biomaterials !
I interview scientists weekly, so if you're interested, let me know! I’d love to have you
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"there's endemic Mexican maize that has aerial roots that use bacterial colonies to fix nitrogen from the atmosphere."
https://plantae.org/nitrogen-fixing-corn-slime-a-mexican-maize-landrace-supports-nitrogen-fixing-microbiota-in-aerial-root-mucilage/
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Via the Planthropology podcast on the Birdsite. @Planthropology_
Nitrogen-fixing corn slime? A Mexican maize landrace supports nitrogen-fixing microbiota in aerial root mucilage | Plantae
Plants engage in intimate interactions with symbiotic microbes for the mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients. In a keystone study published in PLoS Biology, Van Deyze et al. (2018) describe the…Plantae
📄 Mammola et (2022) The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32:R871–R873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.07.026
https://youtu.be/hsiFvCYSjHI
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Fred Hoyle's IFS Lecture December 1982
Lecture by Sir Fred Hoyle to the Sri Lanka Institute of Fundamental Studies, December 1982, "From Virus to Cosmology", on the theory of cometary panspermiaYouTube