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Cell biologists, you now have an excuse to bring donuts to class
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Posted on: January 4, 2010 9:57 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Glen Davidson
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January 4, 2010 10:06 AM
Mmmm, reproducing doughnuts.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Rorschach
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January 4, 2010 10:11 AM
Krispy Kremes are evil mate, don't let them reproduce...:-)
Posted by: sqlrob
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January 4, 2010 10:22 AM
I still think I prefer the petri dish cookies from a while back.
Posted by: iasasai
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January 4, 2010 10:33 AM
Mmmm, chocolatey mitooooossiiss....
But I'm with sqlrob - those petri dish cookies were WAY cooler!
Don't let me fool you into thinking I wouldn't eat both...
(One day, after only the dust of a ruined civilization is left, the ellipsis will peek its head out and begin taking over...)
Posted by: IanKoro
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January 4, 2010 11:22 AM
That guy seems to have a lot of very cool artwork, check out the rest of his stuff:
http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/art.html
http://www.kevinvanaelst.com/editorial.html
Posted by: Mystyk
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January 4, 2010 1:24 PM
I remember seeing this a few months ago through a link from Isis's blog. There's a great one of different types of clouds represented as cream in coffee.
Posted by: eddie
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January 4, 2010 3:49 PM
I remember reading about regular donuts being a visual metaphor for a cyclical cosmology, but now I see they are really about gastrulation.
Posted by: Coran
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January 4, 2010 6:02 PM
Donuts ... Toroids ...
Is this going to set Pivar off again?
Posted by: myao
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January 4, 2010 6:10 PM
I would imagine that there are a lot of delicious hydrocarbons without double bonds in their carbon skeleton in those mitosis-y treats... Yum! :)
Posted by: Marella
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January 4, 2010 6:54 PM
Thanks for the link, those pics are amazing! How the hell did he do the carpet 'milk drop'? Is it all just photo-shopped?
Don't dis the ellipsis ... I loooove the ellipsis ... the full-stop is so ... sudden.
Posted by: Miki Z
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January 5, 2010 9:25 AM
My guess is that the carpet milk drop is an honest photo where the supports for the drops are hidden behind the drops by perspective. A nice example of using perspective to photograph physical impossibilities is shown at http://www.andrewlipson.com/escher/ascending.html where you can see Escher's "Ascending and Descending" done in Legos.