In Medium's wonderful “Micrograph Stories” series, several spectacular photo-set of legal and illegal drugs, as revealed through microscope photographs.
Maurice Mikkers says the experience of photographing these illicit compounds sparked his interest in researching the online drug trade.
Caffeine crystals; formed out of 100% caffeine powder dissolved in demineralised water, made visible by using a cross polarised light microscope with an Berek filter. Photo: Maurice Mikkers/Medium.
According to a new exhibition titled “Your Stonehenge — 150 years of personal photos,” this image of was taken at the Wiltshire, England’s magical megalithic structure in 1875 and depicts the family of Isabel, Maud and Robert Routh. Personally, I wouldn’t be so sure those aren’t Zippies on their way to a rave in 1994. […]
In the 1970s, “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier documented the extraterrestrials who visited him by taking fantastic photographs of their spacecraft zooming over the Swiss countryside. Meier, founder of Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschafter und Ufologiestudien (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies) says the spacecraft are called “beamships” […]
Andrew Hoyle has a terrific tutorial article on Cnet on how to take macro photos on your smartphone using a macro lens. The article includes tips on how to use Photoshop or other image editing software to improve the images. The lens Andrew recommends is pricey ($265), but he has links to cheaper lenses that […]
If you’ve got more than one Apple device, chances are your nightstand is a cluttered mess of charging cables; and if you take them out with you on the daily, your bag probably also has a tangled mass of chargers for your iPhone, AirPods, Apple Watch and so on. It’s time to de-clutter your charging […]
Brush up on those interview skills all you like, but all the charm in the world won’t help you past the primary obstacle for modern job seekers: Applicant tracking systems. These bots comb online applications before a human ever sees them, searching for keywords that would indicate particular titles or skills. That’s where Rezi Résumé […]
Details are the bane of any manager. It’s tough to innovate when you’ve got invoices to approve, gripes to address and countless fires to put out on any number of projects. Here is where technology can actually help you, because businesses run better when they integrate all their procedures, inflow and outflow under one system. […]
