Looks like its time for another Ken Burns Special.
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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Badri Roysam
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:10 PM
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Subject: Re: A microscopy documentary
Its hard to compete with a story about Einstein and God's equation, but
there is nevertheless a compelling story on microscopy waiting to be
told for a general audience..
Badri Roysam
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Oreopoulos [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: A microscopy documentary
> The point of a documentary like this would not be to have a "how to"
> guide to microscopy. It's would be more a history and an account of
> the most recent advances. Sure, you can show Kohler illumination and
> why this is useful, but a step by step guide for techniques is not
> needed. That would be useful for another set of videos. I would refer
> people to JOVE (Journal of visualized experiments) for "how to"
> videos (this is peer reviewed and would recommend that if you have a
> unique way of doing something you should submit a video to this
> "journal"):
>
> http://www.jove.com/
>
> I'm still thinking that a proper microscopy documentary would be
> modeled around Carl Sagan's Cosmos series which was sort of a history
> of astronomy for the lay person, explaining our place in the universe
> and the significance of various astronomical discoveries in the past,
> how the implications of these discoveries changed our thinking, etc.
> The same must be true of the world of the very small, the world that
> the microscope reveals to us. Probably the best thing to do would be
> to put together a list of important people in the history of
> microscopy and important discoveries made with microscopes that
> changed the world in some way or had a big impact. This need not be
> limited to optical microscopy; EM, AFM, etc. should all be included as
> well.
>
> John
>
>
> On 10-Mar-09, at 2:09 PM, Carl Boswell wrote:
>
> > That reminds me of a professor I knew who taught Pathology to med
> > students. One day, to wake up the audience and emphasize a point,
> > he fired off a starter's pistol. Needless to say, he got everyone's
> > attention. When it came time for the next exam, the answer many
> > students gave for the question pertaining to that "exciting" portion
> > of the lecture was that a gun was fired. My point is, would anyone
> > remember how to align the condensor, or just hum the tune?
> > C
> >
> > Carl A. Boswell, Ph.D.
> > Molecular and Cellular Biology
> > University of Arizona
> > 520-954-7053
> > FAX 520-621-3709
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Runions
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 1:20 AM
> > Subject: Re: A microscopy documentary
> >
> > We should make a musical. Anybody got any talent? Imagine a big
> > Broadway number that explains Kohler illumination. John.
> >
> > Jeffrey L. Travis wrote:
> >>
> >> The closest thing to a microscopy documentary I can recall is the
> >> Saturday Night Live segment of "Leonard Pinth-Garnell's Bad
> >> Musicals" which featured a musical based on the life of Leewenhoek.
> >> This sketch originally aired on December 10, 1977. A synopsis can
> >> be found here:
> >> http://snlarc.jt.org/detail.php?i=1977121010
> >>
> >> The musical, as I recall, was proclaimed by Pinth-Garnell to be
> >> "simply terrible."
> >
> > --
> > (Sent from my cra%#y non-Blackberry electronic device that still has
> > wires)
> > *********************************
> > John Runions, Ph.D.
> > School of Life Sciences
> > Oxford Brookes University
> > Oxford, UK
> > OX3 0BP
> >
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> > phone: +44 (0) 1865 483 964
> > Runions' lab web site
> >
> > Visit The Illuminated Plant Cell dot com Oxford Brookes Master's in
> > Bioimaging with Molecular Technology
>
>
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