When I was younger, I spent a lot of time collecting things around the house and using a microscope to examine them. While I had a lot of fun examining things, the one thing that was lacking was the ...

Would it be possible to make a simple microscope on the island? Despite the fact that there were no clean, unscratched lenses on the island, there is a very simple microscope you can make using a tiny ...

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