> This comment seems inapposite when made in a forum that went into great detail on the selection of dissection microscopes to better see the innards of small insects

For once I agree with you. In fact, I bought one of those microscopes that was advertised as "recommended by Randy Oliver." At the time one of my lab members (Dr. H)  asked why on earth I would want to buy my own microscope, especially seeing how we had two (2) Zeiss scopes which probably cost $100,000 apiece ten years ago. 

With these babies we imaged chromosomes. Somehow the experience of witnessing grad students and postdocs spending hundreds of hours in a small dark room looking for just the right shot of aberrant chromosomes, left me with no desire to spend time looking through scopes. Dr. H was right. 

Another time, Randy O. visited the lab and after a look around, he asked me if we ever have one of those Eureka moments where everyone is jumping up and down. I thought for a while, and said "Nope." Most of our discoveries wouldn't mean a thing to more than about a dozen and a half people working in the field, but progress was slow in any case.

PLB

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