Daily Archives: August 31, 2016

Nucleated red cell collage

Science and art cover illustrations

Anatomy is so awesome. The order is fantastic. Our inability at this juncture to understand the massive amount of detail involved in just the function of one single nucleated red cell is overwhelming. Here is such a red cell, electron micrograph originally, which I have pseudo colored, cut pasted,  filled and framed.  Just look for the mitochondria and vesicles, maybe a little RER in the middle and lower left, and hunt up the nuclear pores and look for the areas condensed and euchromatin, then smile.

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Kroger Vegetables and Noodles: or should it be Noodles mostly.

Rants

One of the things in life that I really find unpleasant is when corporations, people, universities, children and spouses just feel the need to “juice” things up over and above what the “reality” is.  The packages of mixed vegetables and noodles made (distributed) by Kroger galls me every time, but tonight took the cake.  If there are MORE noodles than vegetables in the package (by weight, by volume, by whatever criteria you need to use) then don’t name the frikkin product…VEGETABLES and NOODLES…name it NOODLES and VEGETABLES.

I almost never open a package of this stuff that I don’t feel some disgust for false advertising.  Why do consumers put up with it. Why don’t corporations have a “soul
or “morality”, why is capitalism gone “big” as in Kroger, K-Mart, Walmart, Verizon, Duke energy, Novartis, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKlein, and so on ad nauseum …. take license to cheat  customers.

I don’t need to belabor this, we can change the world, one blog, one phone call, one boycott, one choice at a time.

These pictures are “AS IS”,  just cropped to a same height.– I had just emptied the whole package into the white bowl seen, and thought to myself…. tonight is the night I post this lie for the jillions of people who know what I am trying to say.

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