Comments on: Carcineidolia

By: James

James — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:36:11 +0000

Nice GFP emoticon. Check out my version in phase contrast. Not smiley face, more like a screaming face. Expression changes over time too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzmBR9XoSc

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:49:52 +0000

For my job I scan slides of blood and bone marrow nuclei for leukemia and lymphoma cases. You’d be surprised how often Mickey Mouse appears under my scope! (along with plenty of smiley faces, etc.).

By: Cancer

Cancer — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:31:58 +0000

U Mad?!?

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:40:35 +0000

That is hilarious! Sometimes fate has a sense of humor. Part of me can’t help thinking that the tumor cell is going “neener-neener-neener!” at humanity, even though I know it’s just pareidolia.

By: db26

db26 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:46:47 +0000

This is an OBVIOUS photoshop.

By: Peter Davey

Peter Davey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:04:06 +0000

To quote the Prince of Denmark: “One may smile and smile, and be a villain”.

By: Ash

Ash — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:23:49 +0000

I’m a microscopist in cancer research. You see stuff like this from time to time.

Although you can make stuff like this with a DNA damaging FRAP laser. I’ve written my name across the nucleus of a cell.

By: Donx

Donx — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:53:11 +0000

eh. there are too many people. if we cure everything without sterilizing ourselves the only way left to die will be to kill each other. i guess that’s better…

By: Artor

Artor — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:21:06 +0000

Here’s my favorite bit of smiley-face pareidolia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gAxbxxmYZ8
Bonus: Richard Attenborough!

By: Blob

Blob — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:48:10 +0000

That was actually quite a good definition of “irony”; but can you distinguish parody from satire?

By: Mark Hansen

Mark Hansen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:58:36 +0000

Had my own medical problem with a bit of pareidolia about 15 years ago. Agonising pain in the back, go to hospital, get told it’s almost certainly a kidney stone. Have X-ray done and there on the print is the kidney-shaped kidney stone. It took a bit of time for me to see the funny side of that bit of pareidolia.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:48:23 +0000

hehehe

By: Tony Sidaway

Tony Sidaway — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:59:19 +0000

Looks like Jesus to me.

By: knobody

knobody — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:51:38 +0000

from my days as a microscopist, i saw a few smiley faces, but somehow corn and sorghum just aren’t as ironic.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:51:01 +0000

THANK YOU for this post. The original article I saw seemed so asinine; the title was something like “cancer laughs at researchers.” Ugh. Thanks, Phil. Good post.