Desktop background images are important parts of people’s everyday lives in terms of unintended staring time. Usually they are picked up for the eyes (sg spectacular & cool and/or sexy) and hearts (family members), but why not use them for information uptake and learning? So I’d like to ask: What’s your current science related desktop image, if there’s any and how can you utilize it? Here is my current desktop image with the source;
Bonnet et al.:
A Mitochondria-K+ Channel Axis Is Suppressed in Cancer and Its Normalization Promotes Apoptosis and Inhibits Cancer Growth Cancer Cell Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages 37-51
Figure 1. A Reversible Metabolic-Electrical Remodeling in Cancer Contributes to Resistance to Apoptosis and Reveals Several Potential Therapeutic Targets
I have a photo of Saturn taken from behind it, that is to say, from the night side, with the sun poking out the lower limb. It illuminates the rings in a different way, and also shows a tenuous wispy ring way, way out from the planet. The best, though, is the little blue dot off to the right, just visible through the rings. That’s us.
I know it’s not a peptide chain, or whatever, but it’s pretty cool.
I never see my desktop, I have so many windows/programs open.