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I seem to recall there being one of these threads back in the day, but I can't find it. So, let's talk microscopes! I teach biology at a public school, so the microscopes we I have are kind of limited. HOWEVER, we did just get the funding to order a few of these bad boys. Looking forward to seeing what I can find once they get in!  And, naturally, the most fun thing about microscopes is finding all the cool little critters, so here's couple videos of some things I found while tardigrade hunting (with bonus conversation between me and my students in the background) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tUBa93NTNo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsVuLWP7ao Anyway, show me your stuff/finds!
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I'm a chemist and a single-crystal X-ray crystallographer, so I spend a lot of time looking at things under a microscope. I don't find my samples under rocks. Instead they're small organic or organometallic molecules that we've crystallized. Some of them have some pretty cool colors though. Here's an example. These are taken with a 40X stereo microscope, so we're talking crystals on the order of 1 mm in length.
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Victorian artists used to make incredible art out of diatoms, and at least one person still practices the art. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/secretive-victorian-artists-made-these-intricate-patterns-out-of-algae-180952720/ http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/09/diatomist/  Amazing images: https://www.google.com/search?q=vic...QEISjAA#imgrc=_
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