Cajal, the Father of Modern Neuroscience - Great Gift Idea For Nerds & Scientists
A short biography of Santiago Ramon y Cajal and also links to buy framed prints and other gift ideas based on his artwork.
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Medical, Business and Educational Stock Images for the Modern Age
Diversity in Health, Work, and Educational Stock Photos
The pandemic has caused a lot of suffering, but it has also brought something positive into the world; it has moved us toward realizing a truly global community.
Worldwide lockdowns pushed forward remote working, learning, and even medical consultations via video telecommunication systems. People who may not have encountered each other because they worked across the globe, the country, or even down the hall are now seeing one another and exchanging ideas.
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In America, discussions in the media and the Black Lives Matter protests further opened minds, not just to inequality in the black community, but to all diverse peoples, including Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, Indigenous Peoples, gay, lesbians, bi-sexuals, trans, women, and even the elderly.
While there are no easy answers, what’s significant is that people are talking about diversity and the world to come, which is the first step toward growth.
Science Source has provided images to you of diversity for decades. Not only do we have modern images of diversity in the workplace, home, family, school, doctors, hospitals, and business, we also have a library of retro and historical diversity stock content.
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As always, we also provide free research and offer custom illustration services to fit your budget. We look forward to working with you and are happy to answer any of your questions, obligation free.
Spark Imagination With Conceptual Images
We've all heard the phrase, " A picture is worth a thousand words." This is especially true when we want to express a concept or idea.
Conceptual illustrations can often communicate a mood, thought, feeling, or process more clearly than a literal depiction of an object, location, or person.
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They allow the viewer to engage their imagination, to become a part of the story, rather than a passive viewer.
Consider a few concepts: creativity, humanity, vision, value, stress, confusion, fun, enlightenment, understanding, joy, compassion, information, fear, or tranquility.
These days the use of creative illustrations may also serve to unify us by representing people without portraying specific race, sex, or color. It allows you to convey ideas about people and humanity more inclusively.
If you look around, you'll notice that this type of imagery is in everyday use, giving a very contemporary and modern look to advertising, book covers, magazine articles, and just about any place you would like an image to appear.
As always, stock illustration can be a more economical means to find what you need and offers a myriad styles all in one place.
Additionally, Science Source provides free research, plus we have a team of in-house illustrators ready to create any image you can image at reasonable fees and fast turnaround times.
Color enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of follicle or eyelash mites (Demodex folliculorum) protruding from a dissected human hair follicle. and the closeup of an eye.
You Are Never Alone When Follicle and Eyelash Mites Live on Your Face
You may not be aware that you have living creatures with you all the time. They’re called tiny mites and they live inside or near the hair follicles of your face.
Most of the mites are Demodex folliculorum and Demodex Brevis and are from the animal group Arachnida, which includes ticks, spiders, scorpions, and harvestmen. Their more familiar names though include eyelash mites, follicle mites, face mites, and skin mites.
Although found all over the human body, they exist mainly on the face. D. brevis live in sebaceous glands of the hair follicles and D. folliculorum is found in the follicles themselves.
The mite have pin-shaped mouthparts for eating skin cells and skin oils. Since they avoid light, they usually crawl to a new location at night. They can be transferred from one person to another through contact with someone's hair, eyebrows, or sebaceous glands.
The eggs they lay inside your hair follicles or sebaceous glands hatch in a few days and become adults within a week.
It is rare for anyone to have an allergic reaction to them or even notice them at all. Scientists are not sure what purpose they serve on our skin, but they know that the older you are, the more mites you will have.
Researchers continue to investigate these tiny animals.
Space Travel: Then and Now
Entrepreneur, billionaire, Richard Branson reached sub-orbit last week in his new SpaceShipTwo. The trip marks his company, Virgin Galactic’s first entry into sub-orbit and showcases a remarkable new engineering feat, using a twin-fuselage booster plane at take off.
The company sees this as a landmark achievement in space travel with the potential of opening the world to space tourism.
Although Branson’s flight is impressive, it’s not the first time we’ve made it into orbit or sub-orbit. The famous space race started between the USA and the Soviet Union in the 1950’s. In 1961 The Soviet Union sent Yuri Gagarin into orbit and in the same year the US achieved this with Alan Shepard. John Glenn followed soon after, orbiting the Earth three times in 1962.
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The space race came to a definitive conclusion in 1969, when US astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong of Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon.
Since then, NASA has continued exploring space, sending probes to every planet in our solar system, including the dwarf planet, Pluto. It has landed four rovers on Mars, the last of which, Curiosity, is still collecting data from craters today.
Currently, space tourism is prohibitively expensive but as more companies enter the market the price will likely decrease. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is planning a trip in the near future and many others are likely to follow.
One day we might all see space as Gagarin and Shepard did but for now it’s just the dream of billionaires.
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A new strategy of using bacteria infected mosquito eggs show great promise.
Mosquitos and Dengue Fever
Each year about 390 million people are infected by Dengue Fever. Typical symptoms that arrive 3 - 14 days after being bitten by an infected mosquito include fever, headache, muscle & joint pain, and rashes. Severe cases may cause internal bleeding and dangerously low blood pressure.
There is a new means to prevent Dengue, along with a host of other maladies such as Zika, using bacteria.
STOCK IMAGES & VIDEO OF DENGUE FEVER AND MOSQUITOES
Although a vaccine is available, one needs to have been infected with Dengue at least once before it can be administered.
The spread of the disease through the mosquito vector has altered the way it’s researched. Up until recently, there are have been minimal or temporary means to control it. Effective insecticides for it can damage wildlife, add toxins to the soils & water, and become ineffective when mosquitos develop immunity.
Several years ago scientists began testing a new strategy of infecting the mosquitoes themselves with a bacteria, Wolbachia, that prevents mosquitos from contracting Dengue and other viruses.
The bacteria is injected into mosquito eggs which mature and are released into the wild. When these mosquitos mate their offspring carry the bacteria and gain a resistance to the disease.
Initial results have shown great promise. A newer study conducted by the nonprofit World Mosquito Program (WMP) shows great promise in reducing Dengue infections. In 2020, there was a 86% drop in hospitalizations for Dengue Fever in areas that Wolbachia infected mosquitoes had been released.
WHO, the World Health Organization, is currently reviewing these results and will be developing a full report soon.
Mosquito related diseases have shaped the building of the Panama Canal, the colonization of the New World, life in China, Africa, and through most of the tropical and temperate regions of Earth. Today there is at least some optimism that one day we will defeat the worst mosquito-borne disease.
Rotifers (Philodina sp.), Light Micrograph
How to Live Forever: Rotifers, Nematodes and Tardigrades
The bdelloid rotifer, found in freshwater habitats all over the world, is able to withstand extreme cold. According to a recent discovery in northeastern Siberia, these multicellular organisms can be frozen for up to 24,000 years and live to tell the tale!
The average life span of us humans, 78 years, is not much compared to other creatures. Some birds live up to 100 years, eels have been recorded at 106, tortoises 150, and Koi fish over 200. The slow moving Greenland shark has been recorded at 512 years.
Still these are just flashes in the pan compared to rotifers. Scientists recently restored rotifers that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for over 24,000 years, meaning these creatures were alive during the Late Pleistocene Era - when Wooly Mammoths roamed the earth.
Stock Images and Video of Rotifers and Other Long-lived Animals
A rotifer is part of a group of seemingly invincible creatures, such as nematodes and tardigrades. Tardigrades have even been sent to outer space and survived.
Rotifers are a type of microscopic animal that is often found in zooplankton in either freshwater or saltwater. Rev. John Harris, in 1696, was the first to mention these creatures. They are commonly referred to as wheel animals due to the motion of the cilia surrounding their mouths, which looks like a spinning wheel.
Rotifers are filter feeders that eat dead bacteria and other decaying organic matter. When they move around, they compress their bodies into round shapes and extend out into a long thin shape. In terms of size they can range from 50 micrometers to over 2 millimeters.
Discover more about rotifers in the gallery above and check out one in action below!
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Gifts for Lovers of Classical Music
Classical music continues to inspire and delight listeners today and for good reason! Many people believe western music reached its height then and the roots of modern jazz and rock and roll can all be traced back to it.
When Jazz pianist, Bill Evan played on Miles Davis’s Kind of Blues his main influence was the classical composer Maurice Ravel.
Schubert was the first to write a series of short three-minute songs – a structure that continues today in popular rock music.
Whether you’re already a fan or new to the genre, it’s always fun to get gifts related to your interests. We’ve taken a small selection of our classical music images and made them available to you at our Red Bubble storefront.
Red Bubble Composers Gallery
You’ll find something for everyone. Stickers, t-shorts, framed print, mugs, computer cases, aprons and of course our popular “Bach Socks”!
If you’re interested in licensing stock images of classical composers, take a look at our curated collection below, which is a small part of our ever growing history collection!
Link to Stock Picture Gallery of Classical Music Composers
The Real Pocahontas
Pocahontas has been a legend of American folk culture for hundreds of years – the subject of romantic novels, documentaries and even Disney films. As with many legends as time goes on the myth tends to eclipse the reality. Today we’ll try to unearth the real Pocahontas.
First of all, her name was not Pocahontas. Born in 1596, her real name was Amonute and sometimes Matoaka. Pocahontas was a nickname, which in Algonquin means “playful one” or “misbehaving child.”
Legend claims Pocahontas fell in love with John Smith, an English settler at Jonestown who was captured by chief Powhatan her father. The two shared a secret love affair that they had to keep hidden from the Algonquins. In actuality, there was probably little romance between the two. Pocahontas was twelve when she met John Smith and their only recorded interaction was a time when she helped Smith learn portions of the Algonquin language during his captivity.
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After his imprisonment, John Smith was sentenced to death. As the tribesmen placed his head on a stone for execution, Pocahontas intervened, pleading with her father to let her lover go. In all likelihood, John Smith did not face execution that day. Algonquins often placed people’s heads on stones for religious rituals. It is not unlikely that John Smith was being anointed before his planned release later that day..
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Powhatan dispatched of John Smith and Pocahontas saw mournfully to her lovers’ departure – a bitter sweet romance that gave her a new appreciation of how two peoples can live in harmony.
Records show that Pocahontas’ true love was actually John Rolfe, a man she married in 1614 after her own captivity among European colonists following the First Anglo-Powhatan War. Pocahontas converted to Christianity and was baptized with the name “Rebecca.” She lived among Europeans until her death on a ship bound for Virginia in 1617.
Science Source is a great source of Historic images that illuminate both the facts and legends of the past. Explore more of our images in the links above and for great history prints, mugs, and t-shirts check out our storefront below.
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American Pirate Charles Gibbs Leads Mutiny, 1830
Blackbeard and Other Swashbuckling Pirates
Piracy is criminal activity, such as robbery, violence, or kidnapping, on the high seas. Yet, we love pirates.
We dress-up like them, make kid's movies about them, and enjoy cartoons about them.
The history of piracy goes back to 1500 BC from the Phoenicians to the present time.
Early Pirates also include the Vikings who raided many coastal towns and cities.
When most people are talking about pirates, they refer to the golden age of swashbuckling pirates.
In the Caribbean, in the early 17th century, the English took over Tortuga. They invited pirates to attack their enemies, and they did.
Stock Pictures of Pirates
Well known pirates, also known as privateers, include Edward Teach aka Blackbeard, Barth Roberts, Captain Kidd, Calico Jack Rackham, Captain Samuel Bellamy, Hanry Morgan, and Anne Bonnie.
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