Hank has a wonderful channel called SciShow. Here is his video on Tardigrades!
Thanks, Hank!
Rgds,
Mike Shaw
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The Tardigrade Song
Great to watch the video and listen to this original song about tardigrades!
CreatureCast – Tardigrades from Casey Dunn on Vimeo.
A big thank you and shout out to:
Katherine Hadley and Jonathan Leibovic, from Casey Dunn’s Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown University, sing a song about tardigrades. They composed the song, performed it with friends, and made the animation.
The hand-drawn animations were photographed at the Brown University Science Center (http://brown.edu/academics/science-center/). This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
From website: http://creaturecast.org/archives/2407-creaturecast-tardigrades
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Article Published – How to Make Rheinberg Filters
Just out in Micscape Magazine: http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artdec11/ms-Rheinberg.html
Salt Crystals with Rheinberg Illumination
More on this topic here on my site (tab above); click here…
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Mike Shaw
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Tardigrade Sweater, when you think you’ve seen it all.
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/14/bear-wednesday-2-adorable-swe.html
Yep – someone knitted a tardigrade themed sweater.
Tardigrade Themed Sweater
See the link above. Read my post at the bottom of that blog, and add your own comments!
Want more tardigrade stuff – see the plush toy here.
DNA preserved through tardigrade research
Good article on the start of something new. How do tardigrades live for so long? Cryptobiosis. Now seems to be made practical, as a way to preserve DNA. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/04/nothing-frozen-in-biomatricas-storage-process/?page=1#article This will be useful for forensics!
Tardigrades in Antarctica
A quick link to the scientific paper: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3226950 You probably know that tardigrades are found just about everywhere. We even sent them up into space! But did you know they’ve been found in Antarctica? Read …Read More
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Tardigrade Plush Toys!
Wow – get a plush toy Tardigrade.
http://astore.amazon.com/lovetolearn-20/detail/B0037Z3246
They are cute and cuddly!
Tardigrade Plush Toy
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What? Another Tardigrade in Space? Sent to Mars by the Russians.
Here’s the link to the original article: http://dvice.com/archives/2011/11/russia-sending.php
Photo of the spacecraft that will carry tardigrade to Mars:
Russian Phobos-Grunt Mission Module will hold tardigrade
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Tardigrades In Space
Here is the youtube video of tardigrades in space. Very cool.
It really gives you a good overview of tardigrades!
And here’s a great article on the Shuttle mission with tardigrades on board from The Planetary Society: http://planetary.org/life/
Have a great day!
How to Find Tardigrades Article again !
Now published here: http://www.microbehunter.com/2011/10/20/microbehunter-magazine-october-2011/ Microbe Hunter Magazine did a great job on the layout and presentation! Thanks for looking! Mike
