[Leica] Rare Event

[Aram Langhans]

In my 60 years of being a scientist and my 17 years of being a cookie 
eater, I have never seen this in the wild.  Cookie Mitosis.  Actually 
dividing before my eyes.  I have eaten a lot of bags of cookies and this 
is a first.  I, of course, have seen this in the laboratory of home 
baking, but thought it might just be an artifact due to the controlled 
environment of the laboratory.  But no, not true.  There was an example 
of cookie mitosis in another bag earlier this week but  my wife ate it 
before I could document it.  I did not think I would ever see it again, 
then low and behold, the bag we opened today had the dividing cookies 
there for me to capture it.  I did so before the cookie monster (My 
wife) got hold of this one.

Now, I am still waiting to see an amoeba in the wild.  Been looking for 
60 years.  I am convinced they only exist in the labs of Carolina 
Biological Supply that they sell to classrooms.


Cookie Mitosis-1005968 
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Aram

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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson