Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Jan. 16, 2008

It's a Small World

The apparently fictitious "Institute for the Promotion of the Less than One Millimeter" offers a visual smorgasbord of microbiological images. Wim van Egmond describes his "Micropolitan Museum" as portraits of what he can scoop up with a pipette or tweezers. He's got marine and freshwater collections, a botanical garden, and an insectarium. The latter two aren't truly invisible—although the structural details that van Egmond captures would be missed by the naked eye.

Go to: www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/micropolitan

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