Jeff Lowenfels is a columnist for Anchorage Daily News. For over 30 years he had put out a gardening column every week, making him the longest published garden columnist in American. For most of those years he had advised many gardeners and was the posted child for Miracle-Gro. He had lead the debate with organic crowd at GWA conventions trying to persuade that water-soluble fertilizers were the best way to go. Until one day he received an email with an image that was taken through a microscope of a fungus attacking a nematode. In an instant everything had changed for Lowernfels. He had felt that he betrayed his readers for over thirty years and was oblivious to the truth. Soon after, Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis co-wrote a gardening book “Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web”. This book covers relatively new soil- science discoveries, a world opened up through powerful electron microscopes. Regular gardeners and other growers have been pouring toxin chemicals on their souls for years without realizing that those chemicals hurt the very things that make soil healthy. Using of these toxic chemicals kills off elements of normal flora and fauna, which creates the perfect habitat for raiders.

As CSI and similar TV programs are becoming a part of the pop culture, interest in forensic science has escalated drastically. Technology such as polarized light microscope, fluoroscopes and other types of microscopes are used by forensic scientist on the shows. Scientific American (July Issue) estimated that about 40 percent of science that is shown on CSI is not real. However, popularity of the show has generated a huge interest in forensic science amongst students and general public. In 2000 Universities across the country offered only 15 forensic science programs, today the number is between 150 and 200. Universities can not believe how fast the classes are filling up and the number of students who are looking to take forensic classes is only growing.