I am a scientist too!
I found this YouTube video on b5’s new Searching Bones blog (about the show Bones). I love the show, despite the fact that the Kathy Reichs’ books are rather different.
But hey, how often can I watch a show and know if the science is wonky or not? Heck I bet I could go head to head with Hodges on pollen identification. Back in the day I had an easy 200-300 types in my head that I could positively ID without checking a reference. Push to 500+ the ones that I was pretty sure of. Of course the price I paid for spending nearly three years staring into a microscope with the light turned up to full blast is rather bad eye sight, bad night vision, and bright lights really get me now. Oh well. It was fun though.
How often do you get to stand on a raft on a lake in the Florida panhandle and watch alligators swim by? Good times, good times.
Tags: Searching Bones, Bones, Kathy Reichs, Temerpance Brennan
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are you for real or are you being sarcastic and overdramatizing the whole microscope issue? Today much is done with PC and CCD cams mounted though in the better labs, i know though as a student it takes a while till you get there, and back in the days (your days) this was prolly a rare scenario (the CCD part).
It’s for real. While I think CCD (I set up a system at Duke Univ. including automatic measuring and counting of charcoal particles) might help in teaching, the contrast in a real optical scope can’t be beat. Now that was almost 15 years ago. Maybe things are different now …
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