Tuesday, April 14, 2020
What Microscope Would You Use to Examine Unstained Urine Samples For The Future?
What Microscope Would You Use to Examine Unstained Urine Samples For The Future?The essay 'What Microscope Would You Use to Examine Unstained Urine Samples for The Future?' by Kristina Dobson was published in 'Receptuals' in 2020. The essay is an insightful commentary on society's habits and demands of scientific research.Dobson observes that when scientists wanted to gain a larger body of knowledge about a chemical compound, they usually first needed to use a microscope. Dobson uses this example to call attention to the power of microscopes and how it can help a person to gain a better understanding of science. Dobson also calls attention to the difficulties encountered when trying to understand the properties of something that has only been tested using a microscope. She illustrates her point with a story about one of her husband's friends.He had been dating a friend's sister who loved to cook. After a while, the friend's brother became convinced that he could easily find out every thing that the friend was afraid to know about a certain product. In his quest to find out what was in some of the mystery food products, he used a microscope and found out that some of the things in those foods were very dangerous.The story concludes with Dobson writing, 'The answer is never in his microscope, of course. Perhaps, the answer is simply that he never stopped to think that he really didn't want to know.'The essay is also reminiscent of a chapter titled 'An Elicited Conversation' from 'Etymology: An Introduction' by Reuben Palmer. Palmer writes about another writer who had an epiphany when she saw a butterfly in a photographic plate.Here's a hint, if the word 'epiphany' has no ending letter in the word 'episteme', the author is almost certainly a famous poet or playwright. Dobson discusses an experience she had with a clairvoyant while she was playing tennis. 'My eye was on the ball while my intuition was busy peering through the ground in front of me to the people who were playing tennis,' she writes.She explains that she and her friend had practiced several times a day but nothing had ever clicked. She says that when she tried to focus on the ball, she saw the moment when she met her clairvoyant guide in person.We are all exposed to so much unexplained and unverifiable information every day, I suspect we've all experienced some kind of epiphany. Perhaps you will have one soon.
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