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if i look back, i am lost
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Origami Around
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Peter Solarz
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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
shark vs the universe
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almost home
NASA
EXPECTATIONS
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Jules of Nature
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occasionally subtle
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@onequantaaway
Golden Aussie sunbeams through gemmy clear quartz from the Adelaide Hills, fresh from their slumber in the earth. #quartz #crystal #fossicking #rockhound #australia #adelaide #rocks #minerals #nature #mineralporn #quartzporn #crystalporn #clear #australiancrystals #geology #beauty #earth #rockcrystal #gem #geology
Just can't get enough of this glowing, golden quartz crystal, thank you nature! #quartz #crystal #fossicking #rockhound #australia #adelaide #rocks #minerals #nature #mineralporn #quartzporn #crystalporn #thankyounature #thankyoumountain #gem #golden
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Immanuel Kant (via violentwavesofemotion)
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs—something, anything…. Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Emil Cioran (via feellng)
This picture of a simple battery shows how nature is interconnected; Chemical reactions and light bulbs are manifestations of the same things: electricity.
When you listen to music on your phone, you are being part of an Electro-Chemical reactions that results in music being experienced in your brain! I like how that sounds!
You can go another step further and say that even the neurons in our bodies are cellular batteries, storing and releasing energy in order move signals through our nervous system.
The Promise of Psychedelics in Medicine
William Richards, Ph.D., presents on the medical potential of psychedelics at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics Research 2016
I apologize in advance for my crystal spamming! I am in the process of developing my skills as a crystal hunter and would like to spread the word about my finds and the crystals I have available for people to purchase so I will be routing my Instagram posts through to Tumblr. Please feel free to unfollow if it isn’t relevant to your interests, I will not take offense!
If not, I hope you enjoy the crystal posts : )
Hand-picked this parcel for you all today. 3x unique clusters at the top and a 36-piece crystal point set. All clear quartz with some interesting habits and iron intrusions. These crystals were hand dug by me from various locations around South Australia. Sizes range from 8 - 40 mm. Take it all for $25 AUD + $7 - $15 shipping from Australia (domestic - international). Accepting PayPal, Etsy, and #bitcoin transactions. Comment SOLD to claim and I will contact you to confirm! I also have a similar set still up for grabs a few posts back as well as some really cool clusters of all sizes ($2 - $10). DM for enquiries! #quartz #crystals #rocks #minerals #australia #fossicking #rockhounds #nature #crystalsforsale #forsale #natural #stone #jewelry #wirewrapping #adelaide #420 #boho #handdug #rockcrystal
FYI science isn’t unbiased You need to look at who’s funding the study You need to look at the methods You need to look at the type of statistical analysis You need to use logic Just because it’s “science” doesn’t mean it’s good science
Just added several new listings to my store including this beautiful quartz cluster. Here you can see the cluster in-situ as I discovered it in a new pocket only a week ago. I typically hike about 6 km out to this location in order to find these crystals.
Testing out my ultra low budget spinning crystal display. Wax, string, a bottle cap, bluetac, and a small glass cylinder that I had on-hand. The crystal is a unique triple overlapping quartz crystal standing about 1 cm tall. #quartz #crystals #crystal #macro #rockhound #macguiver #lowbudget #diy #mineralporn #minerals #mineralspecimen #boho #fossicking #nature #natural #rocks #gemporn #gemstone #roughstone #australia #adelaide
A Penny for Our Thoughts? Copper Influx Key to Brain Cell Development
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have used a precision sensor in a chicken embryo to find dramatic differences in the use of copper between developing and fully mature neurons.
In a report published online in Nature Communications, the investigators say their findings reveal how brain cells quickly adjust copper allocation from a predominant use in energy production and defense against free radicals to a use in activating enzymes that make neurons neurons.
“Biochemical studies had shown that many proteins involved in neural differentiation require copper, and we also knew there is a big spike in the brain’s copper levels at a certain stage of development,” says Svetlana Lutsenko, Ph.D., professor of physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. “With these new results, we now know a lot more about how developing neurons use copper for their various needs.”
Yuta Hatori, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow on Lutsenko’s team, used a protein sensor that changes its fluorescence to signal the so-called redox state of cells, which refers to the ability of molecules to exchange electrons, driving many processes. Cells control their internal redox states by precisely tuning the ratio of two small molecules: glutathione and glutathione disulfide. Working with colleagues in the school of medicine’s Department of Neuroscience and led by Shanthini Sockanathan, D.Phil., a professor in the department, the team infected chicken embryos at different stages of development with a gene encoding a tiny sensor and found that the redox state of neurons that control movement changes as they mature.
Delving deeper, Lutsenko says, they found that one effect of the changed redox state was to expose the copper-binding site on a protein called Atox1, which shuttles the metal around the cell. Differentiating cells also turned out to make more Atox1 and a related protein, ATP7A, another copper transporter that works together with Atox1 to direct copper into a “secretory pathway.” The net effect was increase copper supply to the copper-requiring enzyme responsible for signaling between neurons.
The importance of getting copper to the right place in the cell at the right time may shed light on processes beyond development, Lutsenko says. For example, aging is known to wear on cells’ precision control of their redox states. “Our study suggests that small redox changes may have big effects on proteins in the secretory pathway, which are very important for brain function,” she says.
Armed with a better understanding of how normal neurons use copper, Lutsenko’s team plans to look next at what happens when that process goes wrong, using cells from patients with a copper-processing disorder known as Wilson disease.
Psychedelic Drugs, Art, Music, and Other Drugs: An Interview with Finn McKenna
VICE: An article published in 1993—when you were 15 years old—quoted your father as saying this about you, regarding drugs: “I tell the truth and educate him and let him make his own choices.” What has been your experience with drugs?
Finn McKenna: Psychedelics began to influence me from the moment I was conceived. If one takes the incident at La Chorrera seriously, which might be absurd since no one claims to understand it, then perhaps the DNA of my Y chromosome has been intercalated by an alien intelligence.
When I could speak and ask questions I did so relentlessly and my parents always answered me honestly and openly. I can recall conversations about psychedelics as early as three. Later I was present while my parents led ayahuasca sessions and took mushrooms. I helped my father pound vine when I was old enough to wield the sledge hammer. The sight and smell of his ever-present hash and NorCal bud smoking rituals were the backdrop for all daily household happenings. The smell of burning hashish has always been my favorite scent. My life is utterly smudged by hash.
The idea of hallucinating or having visions fascinated me and I looked forward with anticipation and excitement to someday having my own experiences. I recall a conversation over dinner where I was told that hallucinations were like being in a living cartoon. Still to this day I hope to become a living cartoon character, not such a far-fetched idea if one accepts that reality is a hallucination. (I highly recommend reading The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien.) Virtually unimpeded access to the outlandish imagery and ideas of science fiction, rare books, underground comics, and strange art that were sitting on the shelves of the family library filled my imagination and fueled my interest in alterity.
"We can’t keep ignoring the evidence."
An international group of 31 Alzheimer’s researchers has published an editorial urging the science world to change its focus when it comes to Alzheimer’s disease. The message is clear - after a decade of failed attempts to treat and prevent the disease, it’s time to reassess the evidence that Alzheimer’s could be spread by microbes.
The editorial specifically implicates the herpes virus - the kind that causes cold sores - and two types of bacteria, all of which have already been linked to Alzheimer’s disease.
This isn’t the first time scientists have suspected that viruses or bacteria could play a role in causing Alzheimer’s - previous studies have shown that people with Alzheimer’s tend to be more likely to be infected with certain microbes, including types of fungus, than the rest of the population.
DIOPK10-02 Dioptase with Cerussite Christoph Mine, Kaokoveld, Namibia Charlie Key Small Cabinet, 6.9 x 5.7 x 4.8 cm This is a colorful cluster of nearly massive dioptase, with admixed cerussite as well. From it spike out gem, elongated dioptase crystals to 2.1 cm! This is one of the few matrix specimens of this crystal style recovered from the mine as yet and who can say whether more will come? This habit of elongated crystals, in such gemminess, is really quite new, and beautiful. The massive dioptase knoll on which the main crystal sits has some evident damage and bruises, to be sure, but the piece is priced accordingly; and the important crystal is not damaged, despite its freestanding nature. It is partially coated on the backside by quartz, which helped to protect it. Check it out at http://www.irocks.com/minerals/specimen/8843
mycena chlorophos, a bioluminescent mushroom. in japan, where it grows, the mushroom is known as yakoh take, or the night light mushroom. (video)
