Brooke, 20, From Alaska,
Snapped This Smiley On The Top Of Hatcher’s Pass In Alaska! Enjoy!
Rotten tomato – Canary Islands
A piece of pulpo (octopus) in Lanzarote. The cut leg chunks often have littel faces in them.
1) http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/11/spontaneous_smiles.html – NPR
2) http://www.photolaboratory.com/gallery_page_archive/ruthkaiser.htm Show opens 11/21
3) http://tinyurl.com/y958wun daily Telegraph – LONDON
This flower spider looked like a smiling, bobble-headed nymph as he crept backwards across a flower in my backyard.
I had to stop my friend from rotating the takoyaki we were making so I could snap this smiley. Good times in Osaka!
A squid embryo develops from a single cell to a little squid in a few weeks. When it is about 10 days old, it starts to make the structures that will be part of the adult squid. This embryo has been made fluorescent, and is viewed under the microscope. The “hat” will be the mantle–what you eat as calamari rings. The “eyes” will be the gills. The “smile” will form the siphon, used for jet propulsion, and the out-of-focus “arms” will be the big, beautiful eyes.
I spend much of my time looking through the eyepieces of microscopes, teaching developmental biology to college students. If you squeeze a living marine sponge, it falls apart into thousands of individual cells. Two weeks after this procedure, the cells have reaggregated, forming a new, functioning sponge. In this case, the cells formed quite a wonderful pattern of tissue.
We were having bagels for lunch. Everyone who wanted sliced onion on theirs had taken some.
And there was this one, just sitting on the plate!