Whew, blogger came back. (All day long it was down).

Anyway, now I feel like the thing I was dying to post is kind of silly, but whatever.

Syaffollee posted this on her Twitter stream. And because I love Lego, and I love stop-motion animation, and I love random scientific facts, and because the whole thing just made me laugh with delight, I present:

Great Microbiologists, in Lego.



I LOVE that they used Dutch and French for Leeuwenhoek and Pasteur's speech.


(Two things: first, Pasteur didn't literally cure a kid with rabies - you can't cure rabies - but he did vaccinate a child that was bitten by a mad dog and the child did not develop rabies. And, um, Leeuwenhoek, called the Father of Microbiology - the "No one will believe there are animicules in THAT" is a reference to the fact that he took a sample of his own, um, "reproductive material" and looked at it under the microscope.)

But still, I find the whole thing just wonderful and funny.