I'm your huckleberry.

A devil meant for better things

[currentsinbiology]

Being hungry shuts off perception of chronic pain 

Finding food is a necessary survival skill, but so is avoiding pain. Research using mice showed that being hungry activates a neural pathway that inhibits the perception of and response to chronic pain. The findings offer up new targets for treating pain.

Amber L. Alhadeff, Zhenwei Su, Elen Hernandez, Michelle L. Klima, Sophie Z. Phillips, Ruby A. Holland, Caiying Guo, Adam W. Hantman, Bart C. De Jonghe, J. Nicholas Betley. A Neural Circuit for the Suppression of Pain by a Competing Need State. Cell, 2018; 173 (1): 140 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.02.057

[multaka3]

Knight of the Rose

[eonsofions]

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[imsoshive]

😂😂😂😂

[eonsofions]

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[embroid-away]

12 Fundamental Graphs  (with three of my favorites for a closer view of the details)

Stitches calculated to the 0.125 for graph accuracy  📈😉👌🏻

[languill]

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

[flavoracle]

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

[advanced-procrastination]

Bingo. Math is all about problem-solving – using the tools at your disposal to solve problems. When you’re little, simple addition is a struggle. But much like adding weight when you get stronger, once you master addition we have to up the ante to keep you improving – if all you’re doing is repeatedly practicing something you’ve mastered, you’re no longer problem-solving. Your ability stagnates if your routine does. So math gets more and more complicated, but as long as you’re sticking with the recommended routine and not taking too many cheat days, it won’t actually get “harder”. And whether you actually remember or use everything in 20 years is irrelevant – all that matters is that you know how to solve problems that arise in your day-to-day life because that part of your brain was worked out so much in your formative years.

[lthmath]

[asapscience]

We must look SO WEIRD to animals sometimes. [@jakelikesonions]

[maxwellsequations]

sauces: https://www.dsprelated.com/freebooks/mdft/Complex_Sinusoids.html https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-possible-pedagogical-functions-examples-to-use-when-intuitively-describing-Laplace-Transforms-to-someone

Muh current math art inspirations

[achasma]

The Dragon Devouring the Companions of Cadmus (detail) by Hendrick Goltzius, 1588.

[arcusxx]

art by sorrowgrips ( my edits )

[nateswinehart]

Being good to each other is so important, guys.

[did-you-know]

[did-you-know]

“But thinking back, I don’t think I should have gone with that name. Someone at Nintendo of America actually came up with the name Mario. If he had been called “Mr. Video,” he might have disappeared off the face of the earth.“

Happy (belated [Sep 13]) Birthday to Mario! 

Source

[lesstalkmoreillustration]

Darryl Cox

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Pau Gasol Valls

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[npr]

Hurricanes Are Sweeping The Atlantic. What's The Role Of Climate Change?

Warmer waters and air are playing a role in this year's monster storms.

[currentsinbiology]

Cannot sleep due to stress? Here is the cure

Everyone empirically knows that stressful events certainly affect sound sleep. Scientists in the Japanese sleep institute found that the active component rich in sugarcane and other natural products may ameliorate stress and help having sound sleep.

The research group led by Mahesh K. Kaushik and Yoshihiro Urade of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, found that octacosanol reduces stress and restores stress-affected sleep back to normal.

Octacosanol is abundantly present in various everyday foods such as sugarcane (thin whitish layer on surface), rice bran, wheat germ oil, bee wax etc. The crude extract is policosanol, where octacosanol is the major constituent. Policosanol and octacosanol have already been used in humans for various other medical conditions.

Mahesh K. Kaushik et al, Octacosanol restores stress-affected sleep in mice by alleviating stress, Scientific Reports (2017). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-08874-2