Good science education tools are useful, as they help get scientific concepts across to the public without breaking brain cells in the process. This one is particularly neat – it’s a clever bit of Flash that lets you scale down from a coffee bean and a grain of rice (the millimeter scale) to a single carbon atom (the Angstrom scale – a ten-billionth of a meter), passing amoebas, gametes, cellular organelles and viruses in the process.
Very, very cool. I’d like to congratulate the people who made this – well done, the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah!
(h/t to Four Dollars, Almost Five and the person on Twitter who notified me of this earlier, whose link and tweet I lost)
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