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Shiny, Happy Lichens in the SEM

And now, for something completely geeky: I've been virtually sequestered for the last couple weeks writing a soil science report, but on Friday I let myself out of the house-food source-computer lab matrix to enjoy the campus'scanning electron microscope (SEM) for a couple of hours. I went through the workshops & passed the hands-on test, so they now let me in the room with it completely unattended. Can I get a 'Wahooo!'?

Behold my pictures of a lichen and bask in the sheer nerd chic of it:

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Scanning electron microscope image of a crack on the underside of a fruticose lichen, 500x magnification. Taken at the Evergreen State College, 5-26-2006 by natasha.


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