Because everyone needs a little more cuteness in their day...
Thanks to Caitlin and icanhascheezburger for this...
I kinda wanna snuggle a baby bunny right now.
In other news, I taught my first lab of Summer Session yesterday and I think my class of 8 is going to be great. First lab is Protist diversity and when you get students going "I can see why Stentor is your favorite, it is pretty cool" and "They're so cute!" you know that you've got the right kind of people in your class. Take a look a a video of Stentor here. It is a pretty cool unicellular Ciliate that anchors itself on one end and then extends itself out and uses its cilia to create a vortex that sucks in food items, like Euglena. The other big organisms you see swimming around in that video are other, unanchored, Stentor. And the Protist that one student thought was so cute was Volvox, a colonial green algae. Each of the little green dots that make up the big ball is an unicellular algae that make up the adult Volvox. The little balls inside the big ball are the baby Volvox colonies. Daw.
Now if only these students can keep up this enthusiasm for plants, I will be the happiest Gen Bio TA in the world. :D
I kinda wanna snuggle a baby bunny right now.
In other news, I taught my first lab of Summer Session yesterday and I think my class of 8 is going to be great. First lab is Protist diversity and when you get students going "I can see why Stentor is your favorite, it is pretty cool" and "They're so cute!" you know that you've got the right kind of people in your class. Take a look a a video of Stentor here. It is a pretty cool unicellular Ciliate that anchors itself on one end and then extends itself out and uses its cilia to create a vortex that sucks in food items, like Euglena. The other big organisms you see swimming around in that video are other, unanchored, Stentor. And the Protist that one student thought was so cute was Volvox, a colonial green algae. Each of the little green dots that make up the big ball is an unicellular algae that make up the adult Volvox. The little balls inside the big ball are the baby Volvox colonies. Daw.
Now if only these students can keep up this enthusiasm for plants, I will be the happiest Gen Bio TA in the world. :D