In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Superlative Shots
By Janet Evans
Friday, Sep 26 2008, 11:49 AM
The Best Science Images of 2008 have been announced by the National Science Foundation and the journal Science. The awards are given for “images that employ modern technology to visualize complex scientific topics."
Below is an Honorable Mention photo in all its glory…
Honorable Mention, Photography: "Squid Suckers: The Little Monsters That Feed the Beast"
Little Shop of Horrors fans may see a resemblance to the bloodthirsty plant from the 1986 movie in the above electron micrograph image.
Drexel University doctoral student Jessica Schiffman won an honorable mention in photography in the 2008 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge for capturing what's actually an array of suckers found on the tentacles of a long-finned squid.
Each sucker--about 400 micrometers wide, or a little smaller than the width of a human hair--is surrounded with "fangs" of chitin, a hard organic material.
Squid use their powerful suckers to secure unwitting prey and feed their robust appetites--much like the horror-movie plant that inspired the image's color scheme. —Image courtesy Jessica D. Schiffman and Caroline L. Schauer; Drexel University/Science
You can view more images from 2008, along with winners from past years at National Geographic
HERE
