seeking intelligence

I'm 20. I'm a guy. Biology is cool. Ignorance is not.

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The hills are alive with the sound of punk rock

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How to science

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via I fucking love science

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THE CALVIN CYCLE

From Jay Hosler’s science comics introduction to Photosynthesis, Gimme Some Sugar

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Republicans

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mouse skeletal muscle

yeah, he worked out

colored SEM

credit: Martin Oeggerli

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When chemistry and physics come together, it looks awesome. Image by http://rainbowkitteh.tumblr.com/

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Waning Gibbous, 94% of the Rising Moon is Illuminated taken on June 14, 2014 with a Canon SX50 HS IMG_1585

Source: Ted_Roger_Karson

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and uh yeah

every student at the end of their presentation (via kimcuntdashian)

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Illustration of the heart and the blood vessels by  Leonardo da Vinci, 15th century

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Toxodon

1.5 million years ago, the Toxodon, a rhinoceros sized beast, roamed South America, where, according to fossil records, was one of the most abundant large mammals on the continent. Though not related to the rhinoceros, there’s evidence that the Toxodon may have also had a horn.

Interesting Charles Darwin, during his Voyage of the Beagle, was one of several Western scientists to take an interest in the beast from which he would ponder why and how these giant animals were different than those in Europe.

Written by @kironcmukherjee. Last update: March 28th, 2014.

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Scanning electron micrograph of MRSA (green) being engulfed by white blood cell. This process is known as phagocytosis, and is a form of endocytosis. Receptors on the white blood cell bind to ligands on MRSA in a zip like fashion until they completely surround the target. The foreign body can then be internalised and degraded.

(Image source: Flikr)

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First Cell; First Friends Posted MARCH 05, 2014 on her blog by Beatrice the Biologist   _____________________________________

The loneliness of the single-cell [Spoiler: this is not an entirely accurate presentation of the advent of cell division. But … we know little about what it feels like to be a cell.]

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Illustration of the heart, lungs, trachea and major blood vessels. From Gray’s Anatomy (1918)

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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life’s quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result — eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly — in you.

Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything (via thedragoninmygarage)

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232 - The central region contains older stars of a reddish color, while the spiral arms are populated by young, blue stars and star-forming regions.

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turns out your brain is lined by gumballs…er…ependymal cells

ependyma is one of the four types of neuroglia in the central nervous system, constituting an epithelium-like layer that lines the ventricles and central canal of the spinal cord

it also produces cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)

note that in the fetus (here), ependymal cells are not ciliated

colored SEM, 1000x

credit: Steve Schmeissner