
Time-Lapse of Neurons Growing Wins 2018 Nikon Small World in Motion
This 40-second time-lapse video of a sensory nervous system developing and growing neurons has won the 2018 Nikon Small World in Motion contest.
This 40-second time-lapse video of a sensory nervous system developing and growing neurons has won the 2018 Nikon Small World in Motion contest.
It might sound like a provocation, but it's not. Notice the little difference: I am not asking if you have got the brains for street photography, I am asking if you have got the brain for it. The single āsā in brain(s) is the difference. A huge difference.
In the side-by-side images above, the photo on the left shows a city as seen by astronauts on the International Space Station, and then photo on the right shows a photo of a neuron imaged with fluorescence microscopy. One is massive and seen from a grand scale, while the other is microscopic and cannot be seen by the human eye, yet they look strangely similar in their structure.
Infinity Imagined has a gallery of these comparisons of cities and neurons, showing the strange and striking similarities between the two.