[baltimore]

Here is what I want to see when I click that link: a picture. Of a bacterium. Next to a ruler. Thank you.

UPDATE: My bad, there are plenty of pictures in the supplemental materials downloadable further down the page

[xnx]

Dime for scale: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/science/giant-bacterium.h...

[O__________O]

Here’s a GIF of the NYT video:

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d2a49c29f981d0a8...

Image description: Filaments of a bacteria named Thiomargarita magnifica, placed next to a dime for scale. It is the largest bacteria ever observed, and each filament seen here is a single cell.

[kwhitefoot]

Despite having visited the US many times, I have not the slightest idea of how big a dime is (or what it is worth), so it isn't a useful indicator of scale to me and, I suspect, much of the rest of the world.

[O__________O]

Dime’s diameter is 17.91 mm (0.705 in) per Wikipedia; bacterium is one centimeter (cm) or 10 millimeters (mm).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dime_(United_States_coin)

[shagie]

Unlocked link for any who hit a paywall - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/science/giant-bacterium.h...

[euroderf]

Would it kill them to put a 0.10€ coin in the picture too ?

[turing_complete]

And a banana, please.

[dzhiurgis]

And a football field and a boeing 747

[euroderf]

So I guess it's true, the only real money is Murrcan money

[ravenstine]

[removed]

[samatman]

It clearly states that each filament is one cell: a bacterium, not bacteria.

[heavyset_go]

Here's a preprint from biorxiv, not sure if it's the same study, but there are plenty of pictures: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.16.480423v1....

[mensetmanusman]

Build the software to make this possible:

The trouble is that when writers are discussing scientific research, they could be sued if they use the images in the article without permission.

There needs to be an easy way to revenue share with publishers when these copyrighted images are used. It would definitely be a win-win scenario.

[Mirioron]

I see this being downvoted, but images are copyrighted. Using an image for illustrative purposes is not fair use, is it? Therefore the articles can't just share the same images.

[thaumasiotes]

> Using an image for illustrative purposes is not fair use, is it?

Often it is; the paradigm would be commentary. If you're going to talk about the image, to some extent it's necessary to let people see what you're talking about. Reproducing the Mohammed cartoons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_carto... ) in a discussion of them would obviously be fair use.

As with most aspects of the legal system, there is no standard for what is or isn't fair use.

[anigbrowl]

Of course it's fair use, it meets the educational criterion.

Might you have to defend it? Maybe. Would you win? Assuredly.

[cykros]

Would it be worth the legal costs? Probably not.

Our courts don't operate based on who is on the right side of the law. They operate based on who has more cash to burn.

[taneq]

Is this not precisely what fair use is about?

[lxe]

Still annoying... have to download them and such.

[AnimalMuppet]

Hmm. I could swear that, when I first clicked on it, there was a picture of several of them, next to a dime. (Also, left-right reversed - you could tell by the writing on the dime.)

[threads2]

Did they leave in MS Word tracked changes at the end of that supplemental materials pdf? Lots of weird highlighting.

[tonnydourado]

I am curious, but really not sure whether I wanna actually click on any of the links in this thread.