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That trichinella cyst photo [1] is by Nathan Myhrvold [2], who is a name some here might recognize. He got rich as an early executive at Microsoft, used that to
by munificent 3y ago
That trichinella cyst photo [1] is by Nathan Myhrvold [2], who is a name some here might recognize. He got rich as an early executive at Microsoft, used that to start a patent troll firm, and then got really into cooking.
His six-volume "Modernist Cuisine" is like the "The Art of Computer Programming" for molecular gastronomy.
[1]: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrography-competition/trichinella-cyst-in-pork-muscle https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2023-photomicrogra...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold
- dekhn 3y agoHe also built a nifty scope for photographing snowflakes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/science/snowflakes-photos-nathan-myhrvold.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/10/science/snowflakes-photos... It looks like he embedded it in a pelican case, I see some tubes probably for cooling the plate. IIRC he was a physicist before he worked at Microsoft.
- satvikpendem 3y agoYour Crafting Interpreters is not bad yourself!