[Leica] Rare Event

[Ric Carter]

Not ALL of the news in the world is bad!
Ric



> On Feb 4, 2026, at 4:05 PM, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cookie Mitosis-1005968 <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Cookie+Mitosis-1005968.jpg.html>
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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
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