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noise dept.
we're not kids anymore.

if i look back, i am lost
Today's Document

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

Andulka
Jules of Nature

pixel skylines
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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Cosmic Funnies

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Happy Birthday Jonathan Joestar! (April 4th)
Spider toxin analogue may help relieve pain
New research suggests that a compound based on a spider toxin may be effective for treating pain.
Experiments conducted in rats revealed that the compound, called PnPP-19, provided pain relief most likely by acting on receptors in the nervous system that also bind opioids and cannabis (or marijuana). Interestingly, PnPP-19 is also being studied as a drug candidate to treat erectile dysfunction.
“Our findings reveal at least part of the mechanism of action underlying the pain relieving effects induced by PnPP-19,” said Dr. Maria de Lima, lead author of the British Journal of Pharmacology study. “They also may contribute to the consideration of PnPP-19 as a potential lead compound for the development of new drug candidates to treat pain.”
Brazilian wandering spider
Many insects and arachnids can walk on water by virtue of their hydrophobicity and small size. With their light weight and skinny legs, these invertebrates curve the air-water interface like a trampoline, with surface tension providing the elasticity that keeps them afloat. What’s truly incredible, though, is that many of these creatures, like water striders, can actually jump off the water surface.
The top animation shows high-speed video footage of a water strider leaping off the water. Notice how it distorts the air-water interface but doesn’t break the surface - it makes no splash. The key is not to push too hard. If the insect exerts a force exceeding the limits of what surface tension can withstand, then its legs will break the water surface and it will lose energy to drag and viscous forces. The insect must generate its jumping force without exceeding a hard limit.
The water strider achieves this feat not by pushing downward but by rotating its middle and hind legs. Rotating its legs allows the insect to maintain contact with the water surface longer and continue deforming the interface as it jumps. This maximizes the momentum it transfers to the water, which, in turn, increases the insect’s take-off velocity. By studying and then emulating this mechanism, scientists were able to successfully create a tiny 68-mg water-jumping robot. (Image credits: J. Koh et al., sources, PDF)
This week FYFD is exploring the physics of walking on water, all leading up to a special webcast March 5th with guests from The Splash Lab.
he looks so happy and proud <3 (x)
Shot with an arrow pouch?
Web designers
you have been visited by Avacyn, Angel of Jumpscares if you don’t reblog this your stained glass windows will be destroyed by an angry angel
Full version of my Toon Link sprite. Made this a while ago for someone. Fairly simple.
Sugar rush shrinks brain cell powerhouse
The spike in blood sugar levels that can come after a meal is controlled by the brain’s neuronal mitochondria, which are considered the “powerhouse of cells,” Yale School of Medicine researchers found in a new study.
Published in the Feb. 25 issue of the journal Cell, the findings could provide a better understanding of how type 2 diabetes develops.
Blood glucose levels are thought to be primarily controlled by the pancreatic hormone insulin, the liver, and the muscles. This new study, however, highlights a crucial role for mitochondria in a small subset of neurons of the brain in systemic glucose control.
“We found that when sugar increases in the body, mitochondria in subsets of brain neurons rapidly change their shape and their function is altered,” said senior author Sabrina Diano, professor in the Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Neuroscience, and Comparative Medicine. Diano said what surprised the research team is not that these changes occur in response to glucose, but that these seemingly subtle adjustments in a “housekeeping” cellular event in a handful of brain cells has such a powerful impact in circulating glucose levels by affecting many peripheral tissue functions.
Chitoku Toda, Jung Dae Kim, Daniela Impellizzeri, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Zhong-Wu Liu, Sabrina Diano. UCP2 Regulates Mitochondrial Fission and Ventromedial Nucleus Control of Glucose Responsiveness. Cell, 2016; 164 (5): 872 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.02.010
Samus Aran, the Bounty Hunter
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Ghost from Halo.
Bat Tumbler with green textures. (more like bat tumblr tho)
This was a fun build, a dragon in a mech suit.
Was inspired from the Skells in Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Wanted to drop by and leave some of the creations I’ve made.