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Making the Lyrics

Brandon (Audio Lion) created this song the encompass the spirit of the last fight in The Warriors. He wanted it to be a fun fight song so I based all the words off of sparring (I incorrectly pronounced Riposte because I am not perfect).

Lyrics

I feel the force upon my face A source of conflict i eagerly embrace Another mode strongly displaced A constant barrage of which we can trace

As we attempt to turn lead into gold Obtain the heart of the earth We burn

The fight goes on The struggle pushes us to find where we belong

As the battle continues length and breadth Fear neither pain, worry nor the death Enjoy this second, this quickening of breath Glorious sparring will fill your epitaph

As we attempt to live and uphold Obtain the sense of our worth We learn

The fight goes on The thrill within the moment moving us along.

The attack As the advance ensues The riposte A counter movement initially imbues

I detect a feint slight of hand A lunge and parry quickly gains To disengage the thought as it stands As i remise, the feeling still remains

Any second now one of us will fall Our bodies drained from toil and pain The ground will offer up a call To lay upon and rest our weary reigns

(As we attempt to process and control Obtain the drive we've unearth) We yearn

The fight goes on The potential will come to prove ourselve all wrong

The fight goes on The battle exists as long as you respond We move upon

The fight goes on The effect left will change the world when you have gone

#saturnaliamn #audio lion #time warped smile #the warriors #fight #fight song #punk #metal

Super Mario played on a MEGAFLUTETHING (ancient musical instrument or something)

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Project Tango

Google unveils next-generation smartphone device featuring motion and depth sensors. This is really exciting as it offers computational photography to the masses and far more sophisticated Augmented Reality experiences. The prototype device is available now for developers to create something special - video embedded below:

As we walk through our daily lives, we use visual cues to navigate and understand the world around us. We observe the size and shape of objects and rooms, and we learn their position and layout almost effortlessly over time. This awareness of space and motion is fundamental to the way we interact with our environment and each other. We are physical beings that live in a 3D world. Yet, our mobile devices assume that physical world ends at the boundaries of the screen.

The goal of Project Tango is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.

You can find out more at the Project Tango website here

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Atopodentatus Will Blow Your Mind

by Brian Switek

The fossil record is replete with wonders. Humungous fungus, dazzling dinosaurs, intricate ammonites, and perplexing protomammals just scratch the surface of such a wide array of fantastic organisms that sometimes it’s easy to become acclimated to the enigmatic and weird. Yet, even then, there are fossils so strange that they make me jolt upright in my seat and think “Wait, what the hell is that?” The latest prehistoric creature to leave me gobsmacked is Atopodentatus unicus.

The roughly 245 million year old marine reptile is beautifully preserved. Uncovered in southwest China and described by Wuhan Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources paleontologist Long Chen and colleagues, the reptile’s nearly complete, nine-foot-long skeleton is laid out as charcoal-colored bones against gray rock. And while not as wholly adapted to an aquatic lifestyle like the eel-like ichthyosaurs found in the same deposits, the stout limbs, hips, and geological context of Atopodentatus hint that this reptile divided its time between land and sea. Then there’s the skull.

Preserved in profile, the cranium of Atopodentatus looks like a bony version of a Scotch tape dispenser. In front of a rounded orbit, the creature’s snout is a downturned hook that creates an arc of tiny, needle-like teeth that are fused to the sides of the jaw rather than sitting in sockets. Stranger still, most of the teeth in the upper jaw faced each other in a split running between the two halves of the upper jaw. Head-on, Atopodentatus had a zipper smile of little teeth…

(read more: Laelaps blog - National Geo)

illustration by Julius Csotonyi.; photo: Cheng et al.

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Living Tissue Emerges From 3-D Printer

Harvard bioengineers say they have taken a big step toward using 3-D printers to make living tissue. They’ve made a machine with multiple printer heads that each extrudes a different biological building block to make complex tissue and blood vessels.

Their work represents a significant advance toward producing living medical models upon which drugs could be tested for safety and effectiveness.

It also advances the ball in the direction of an even bigger goal. Such a machine and the techniques being refined by researchers offer a glimpse of the early steps in a sci-fi healthcare scenario: One day surgeons might feed detailed CT scans of human body parts into a 3-D printer, manipulate them with design software, and produce healthy replacements for diseased or injured tissues or organs.

Read more below and click the gifs for explanations.

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*Printing flesh

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Biology in 3D.

Ever read a journal article and wonder why the authors included two images of the same molecule? These are not editorial mistakes, these are stereoscopic images.

Structural biologists take advantage of this optical illusion to communicate three-dimensional information in two-dimensional media.

Here is how it works. If you’ve ever tried Magic Eye [x] then you’ll be familiar with this principle. Your eyes and brain are making sense of information and actively construct a 3D perspective. All one has to do is place the 2D images in a way that tricks your brain into thinking it is 3D. One image is rotated slightly right and the other slightly left. To ‘see’ the 3D object:

Bring your face close to the image,

Cross your eyes,

Slowly move away from the screen,

Cross your eyes so there are three images (the middle overlapping image will be the 3D object),

The object will come into focus within an arm’s width.

If you don’t get it right away, keep trying. Understanding how the illusion works will help you guide your eyes. Once you know how to do this, pick up some science journals and brag to your friends that you have molecular vision.

The best news is that you don’t even need 3D glasses to see it.

More cells and molecules at molecularlifesciences.tumblr.com

Citations

Title image

First stereographic image

Zhou, Y., Larson, J. D., Bottoms, C. A., Arturo, E. C., Henzl, M. T., Jenkins, J. L., … & Tanner, J. J. (2008). Structural basis of the transcriptional regulation of the proline utilization regulon by multifunctional PutA. Journal of molecular biology, 381(1), 174-188.

Second stereographic image

Srivastava, D., Singh, R. K., Moxley, M. A., Henzl, M. T., Becker, D. F., & Tanner, J. J. (2012). The Three-Dimensional Structural Basis of Type II Hyperprolinemia. Journal of Molecular Biology.

Third stereographic image

Peng, L., Oganesyan, V., Damschroder, M. M., Wu, H., & Dall’Acqua, W. F. (2011). Structural and functional characterization of an agonistic anti-human EphA2 monoclonal antibody. Journal of Molecular Biology, 413(2), 390-405

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Robot read news

Great comic mini-series from Scott Adams blog on Dilbert.com.

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Splanchnology - The study or discourse of the viscera (guts) - Greek: Splanchn(o), “viscera”.

Stomach (organ) - From Latin stomachus, “throat, gullet, stomach” [also “pride, indignation”, since those emotions were believed to arise from the stomach]. Derived from Greek stomachos, “throat, stomach”, literally an extension of stoma, "mouth, opening" Pertaining to the stomach - Gastr(o)-, Ventr(o)- Abdomen - “Belly fat”, from Latin abdomen, meaning, well, what it does today. Ultimate origin of the word is unknown. Pertaining to the abdomen - Laparo-, Abdomin(o)-, Ventr(o)-

Digestion - From Latin dis-, “apart”, gerere, “to carry”, “to assimilate food in the bowels” Pertaining to digestion - -pepsia

Lungs - From Old English lungen, from Proto-Germanic *lungw-, literally “the light organ”, legwh-, “not heavy, having little weight”. Probably from the fact that lungs float when put in water (and other organs do not). Pertaining to the lungs - Pulmo-, Pneumo-

Liver - From Proto-Indo-European (PIE) *liep-, “to stick, adhere, fat” Pertaining to the liver - Hepat(o)-, Hepatic, Jecor- (uncommon)

Pancreas - From Greek pankreas, "sweetbread", from pan-, “all”, and -kreas, “flesh”, presumably from the fleshy, uniform nature of the pancreas. Pertaining to the pancreas - Pancrea-

Kidney - From Middle English kidenere, origin unknown. Possibly from cwið , “womb”, and ey, “egg”, for its shape. Pertaining to the kidney - Nephro-, Ren(o)-

Intestines - From the Latin intestina, “inward, intestine”, from intus, “within, on the inside”. [Old English for the organ was hropp, “rope”] Pertaining to the intestines - [Small intestine] Enter(o)-, Duoden-, Jejeun(o)- [Large intestine/Colon] Col(o)-, Sigmoid-

Spleen - From Greek splen, "the milt, spleen". From PIE *splegh-, “milt” [Note: “Milt” - fish sperm - got its name from the Proto-Germanic name for spleen, but the word once meant “guts” in general] Pertaining to the spleen - Splen(o)-

Gall bladder - Gall from Old English galla, “gall, bile”, from PIE root *ghel- "yellowish green, gold". Bladder origin the same as urinary bladder. Pertaining to the gall bladder - Cholecysto-, [Bile] Chol(e)-

Bladder - From Old English bledre, “urinary bladder, cystic pimple”, from PIE root *bhle-, "to blow" [same root as "blast"!] Pertaining to the bladder - Vesic(o)-, Cyst(o)-

Learn more about medical and biological etymology on Biomedical Ephemera! [Images from Historical Anatomies on the Web] [Etymologies from Online Etymology Dictionary, who you should love and give money to]