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A Microbe's-Eye View of Beer

fjordboy writes "After a hard days work and a couple of beers, don't we all really wonder what our draft would look like under thousands of times magnification? Maybe not, but after nine years of work and five million dollars, Michael Davidson of Florida State University has created a website of microscopic proportions that will satiate anyone's curiosity. His site, MolecularExpressions.com has galleries full of images of ordinary materials under extraordinary magnification. The list of materials includes beers from around the world, popular cocktails, snoopy and many more. The site has a wealth of images that are well worth a look. CNN has a brief description of the site and the work that went into it, but feel free to skip that and just gaze at an Irish favorite." Some pretty new galleries since the last time we mentioned it.

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  1. #Teens4Christ presents: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Beers, steers, and queers.

  2. pah. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my beer does not look like that. that is a close up of a parrot.

  3. CNN needs to learn what a hyperlink is by Jjeff1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I read this piece earlier today there and they went on and on about the site, but never mentioned the URL.

  4. Makes me wonder... by inode_buddha · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    possible uses of nano-tech to track the chemistry of various things throughout digestion. And also identify what brand/year of truck radiator was used to distill the cheap stuff. If you drink anything that had sugar in the mash, yer *not* on my friends list, FWIW. Think Jack Daniel's or a fine scotch, straight no ice. And no fake ID required.

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    C|N>K
  5. Just make sure... by centralizati0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just make sure that some specific slashdot trolls NEVER EVER come into communication with him.

  6. So it's a dupe... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but because you put this "Some pretty new galleries since the last time we mentioned it." that makes it all okay, and we can't gripe about it? Okay, I won't gripe :-)

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