Monthly Archives: December 2011

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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

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

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