Regular column in The Microscope (USA)

'Critical Focus'

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Front covers of The Microscope feature a photograph from the fifth
Brian J Ford Critical Focus column on the Leeuwenhoek Specimens
published in June 2011, the 20th published in January 2015, and
the 40th (on the covid-19 pandemic) written in December 2020 for
publication in the spring of 2021.

Critical Focus No 46, Farewell Reality, hello Jellybeans, The Microscope, 70: (1): 34-37, 2023.

Critical Focus No 45, Germ versus Germ, The Microscope, 69: (4): 163-174, 2022.

Critical Focus No 44, Coming Up for Air, The Microscope, 69: (3): 123-134, 2022.

Critical Focus No 43, The Cell Knows Who You Are, The Microscope 69 (2): 70–83, 2022.

Critical Focus No 42, Our Disappearing Dirt, The Microscope 69 (1): 25–36, 2022.

[Publications by James Solliday, Huib J. Zuidervaart and Douglas Anderson on Critical Focus No 39, q.v.,
Leeuwenhoek Microscopes and “Nonscience”, The Microscope 68 (3/4): 180-187, 2020.]

Critical Focus No 41, Forgotten Women Who Lit the Way, The Microscope 68 (3/4): 139-150, 2020.

Critical Focus No 40: Stop Covid beyond the Mask, The Microscope 68 (2): 59-70, 2020.

Critical Focus No 39: Science? What Science? The Microscope 68 (1): 33-45, 2020.

Critical Focus No 38: Ten Years and Counting, The Microscope 67 (4): 171–182, 2019

Critical Focus No 37: Vaccines: Sickness or Salvation?, The Microscope 67 (3): 113-123, 2019.

Critical Focus No 36: When the Microbes Take Command, The Microscope 67 (2): 79-85, 2019.

Critical Focus No 35: Come back Plastic, all is Forgiven, The Microscope 67 (1): 31-42, 2019.

Critical Focus No 34: Feces, from Start to Finish, The Microscope 66 (4): 166-176, 2018.

Critical Focus No 33: The Life Force That Breaks All the Rules, The Microscope 66 (3): 117-127, 2018.

Critical Focus No 32: AI: Artificial, Yes. Intelligent, Not, The Microscope 66 (2): 71-83, 2018.

Critical Focus No 31: Can we Understand Obesity? Fat Chance, The Microscope 66 (1): 35-45, 2018.

Critical Focus No 30: Still Waiting for Cures After All These Years, The Microscope 65 (4): 159-169, 2017.

Critical Focus No 29: Tomorrow’s Germs Threaten Today’s Lifestyles, The Microscope, 65 (2): 85-94, 2017.

Critical Focus No 28: The Latest Tally: 100 lectures and counting, The Microscope, 65 (1): 21-31, 2017.

Critical Focus No 27: Beer and pizza, a slice of ancient life, The Microscope, 64 (4): 163-175, 2016.

Critical Focus No 26: Fantastic Physics, and Worlds we Never See, The Microscope 64 (3): 119-129, 2016.

Critical Focus No 25: Big Beef over Mad Cow Disease, The Microscope 64 (2): 69-78, 2016.

Critical Focus No 24: Cloudy with a Chance of Microbes, The Microscope 64 (1): 29-41, 2016.

Critical Focus No 23: Leeuwenhoek Microscopes, Mystery and Mischief, The Microscope 63 (3): 131-142, 2015.

Critical Focus No 22, Forensic Science, Peering down a Blind Alley The Microscope 63 (2): 77-88, 2015.

Critical Focus No 21, The Incredible, Invisible world of Robert Hooke The Microscope 63 (1): 23-34, 2015.

Critical Focus No 20: The Hidden Secrets of Snowflakes, The Microscope, 62 (4): 171-181, 2014.

Critical Focus No 19: Crisis point: the Rise and Fall of Penicillin, The Microscope 62 (3) 123-135, 2014.

Critical Focus No 18: Breaking the Myths of Microscopy, The Microscope 62 (2): 63-73, 2014.

Critical Focus No 17: There is always Life after Death, The Microscope 62 (1) 15-24, 2014.

Critical Focus No 16: Brainstorm - New Insights on Human Intelligence, The Microscope 61 (4) 169-178, 2013.

Critical Focus No 15: A New theory on Old Leaves, The Microscope 61 (3) 121-129, 2013.

Critical Focus No 14: Shining the Spotlight on Movie Microbes, The Microscope 61 (2) 63-73, 2013.

Critical Focus No 13: Debunking the Myth of Intelligent Design, The Microscope 61 (1) 25-34, 2013.

Critical Focus No 12: The Microscope and the Caveman, The Microscope 60 (4) 157-165, 2012.

Critical Focus No 11: Aquatic Dinosaurs under the Lens, The Microscope 60 (3) 123-131, 2012.

Critical Focus No 10: Solving the Mystery of Spontaneous Human Combustion, The Microscope, 60 (2): 63-72, 2012.

Critical Focus 9: Fifty Years in Microscopy, The Microscope 60 (1): 17-25, 2012.

Critical Focus 8: Strange Paradox of Blood, The Microscope 59 (4): 165-173, 2011.

Critical Focus 7: Darwin, the Microscopist who Didn't Discover Evolution, The Microscope 59 (3): 129-137, 2011.

Critical Focus 6: Cultured Meat, Food for the Future, The Microscope 59 (2): 73-81, 2011.

Critical Focus 5: The Story of the Leeuwenhoek Specimens, The Microscope 59 (1): 11-19, 2011.

Critical Focus 4: The Good Guide to Bad Lectures, The Microscope 58 (4): 167-172, 2010.

Critical Focus 3: Censoring the Cell: How the Microscope is Abused by the Media, The Microscope 58 (3): 121-129, 2010.

Critical Focus 2: Inventing Life - or Reality?, The Microscope 58 (2): 71-79, 2010.

Critical Focus 1: The Royal Society turns 350, The Microscope 58 (1): 35-40, 2010.

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