[Nanotourist]
I am a graduate student at a major United States university. As part of my research I get to use powerful electron microscopes on an almost daily basis but the samples I look at for my research are pretty nondescript and boring for most people. I started making micrographs (pictures) of random cool stuff I encountered solely for my own entertainment. These are generally things that are contaminating my samples; bacteria, parts of cells, maybe viruses (not yet but I'm hoping...)... whatever looks interesting. It's tourism, snapping photos at nanometer scale - Nanotourism. So, here are my vacation photos.
The theme of the blog is "look at the pretty pictures" not "sweat the technical details" I'm a pretty inexperienced microscopist, so the audience watching at home will have to learn along the way with me.
About me:
YES: shooting shit with the electron beam, rocking out, using google as spell check, living poor with style, playing in the woods, xkcd, riding bikes, and eating well.
Do-Not-Want: climate-change deniers, inappropriate powerpoint animations, city driving, consumer products with made up scientific sounding names...
Sometimes you have to learn to appreciate the (very) little things...
