My Nit video and Robert Hooke

First nit video, difficult to keep in focus; one very clear section.

Edited nit video. I liked the nit moving down from the top of the frame and disappearing off the bottom. Can see the blood moving through its internal structure very clearly.

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/idkt-head-lice

Thinking of Robert Hooke's Micrographia published in 1665. He used  microscopes to look into the previously invisible world of microscopic organisms; huge change in concept from looking out into the vast cosmos in search of metaphysical questions of the nature and structure of reality and the origins of the universe. Beginnings of particle physics; the sub-atomic forces that operate in and around us and which power us and give our world its organisation and structure yet of which we remain blissfully ignorant.
 I like the transparency of the headlouse; its internal workings are on show:it lives on us; it drinks our blood ;it accesses our interior life force to sustain itself;

This ability to see within another creature turns our inherited and familiar interior /exterior construct on its head; what is actually within and without?





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