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salute the solitude sun

#video

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ph my god

#video #hot people

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#why did the best song ever just show up on my dash? #metal

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#holy shit YEAH #music

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painted transilvanian hunger on my jacket

#metal

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Early Emperor era

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Reflections (film photography, Kodak Ektar 100)

instagram

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Many people imagine that during metamorphosis, as the larval cells begin to die or rearrange themselves, the body of the insect inside its cocoon or exoskeletal casing turns into something like a soup, with all the remaining cells fluidly sliding around together. But that’s not quite right, Truman explained. “Everything has a position … but it’s really delicate, and if you open the animal up, everything just bursts,” he said. To map the brain changes in that gelatinous mass, Truman and his colleagues scrutinized genetically engineered fruit fly larvae that had specific neurons that shone a fluorescent green under the microscope. They found that this fluorescence often faded during metamorphosis, so they used a genetic technique they had developed in 2015 to turn on a red fluorescence in the same neurons by giving the insects a particular drug. It’s a “pretty cool method,” said Andreas Thum, a neuroscientist at Leipzig University and co-author of the commentary with Gerber. It allows you to look at not just one, two or three neurons but an entire network of cells. The researchers zoned in on the mushroom body, a region of the brain critical for learning and memory in fruit fly larvae and adults. The region consists of a bunch of neurons with long axonal tails that lie in parallel lines like the strings of a guitar. These neurons communicate with the rest of the brain through input and output neurons that weave in and out of the strings, creating a network of connections that allow the insect to associate odors with good or bad experiences. These networks are arranged in distinct computational compartments, like the spaces between the frets on the guitar. Each compartment has a task, such as guiding a fly toward or away from something. Truman and his team found that when the larvae undergo metamorphosis, only seven of their 10 neural compartments are incorporated into the adult mushroom body. Within those seven, some neurons die, and some are remodeled to perform new adult functions. All the connections between the neurons in the mushroom body and their input and output neurons are dissolved. At this transformation stage, “it’s kind of this ultimate Buddhistic situation where you have no inputs, you have no outputs,” Gerber said. “It’s just me, myself and I.” The input and output neurons in the three larval compartments that don’t get incorporated into the adult mushroom body completely shed their old identities. They leave the mushroom body and integrate into new brain circuits elsewhere in the adult brain. “You wouldn’t know that they were the same neurons, except that we’ve been able to both genetically and anatomically follow them through,” Truman said. The researchers suggest that these relocating neurons are only temporary guests in the larval mushroom body, taking on necessary larval functions for a while but then returning to their ancestral tasks in the adult brain. That’s in keeping with the idea that the adult brain is the older, ancestral form within the lineage and the simpler larval brain is a derived form that came much later. In addition to the remodeled larval neurons, many new neurons are born as the larva grows. These neurons are not used by the larva, but at metamorphosis they mature to become input and output neurons for nine new computational compartments that are adult specific. The mushroom body in the larva looks very similar to the adult version, Thum said, but “the rewiring is really intense.” It’s as if the inputs and outputs of a computational machine all got disrupted but still somehow maintained their wireless functionality, Gerber said. “It’s almost as if you would deliberately unplug and replug” the machine.

#animals

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Marigold likes to climb around and pretend to be arboreal when She is Not which drives me crazy but it gave me an opportunity to see some interesting grooming behavior

#video #animals

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Kinky superpower poll #6

which is the best of the best?

This poll has all the top three winners from all of the polls i've done so far, if you thought picking was hard before, this one should be a whole lot worse!

the winners so far:

imagination! why let such pesky things as reality get in your way?

tentacles! hardly surprising favourite of the monsterfuckers!

frozen time! never run out of time to have fun again!

transformation! was very popular with the trans population of tumblr for some reason (this is sarcasm: i am a trans woman i know full well why this one was popular!)

get your power then reblog and tell everyone in the tags! be sure to reblog if you vote so everyone can have fun with the poll too!

Note: Powers only work with enthusiastic consent!

have fun!

#i think i should be allowed to do all of this at once!

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AND WHOEVER DECIDED TO GET RID OF THE HEADPHONE JACK SO THAT I EVEN NEEDED WIRELESS ONES IM THE FIRST PLACE IS GOING STRAIGHT TO THE LOWEST CIRCLE OF HELL AND BURING FOR ALL ETERNITY UNDER SATANS WRATH!!!!!!!!!! GOD WILL LOOK YOU IN THE EYES AT THE PEARLY GATES AND SAY NAH NOT YOU AND A TRAP DOOR WILL OPEN AND YOU'LL FALL INTO THE FIREY PIT! I HATE YOU PERSON THAT GOT RID OF THE HEADPHONE JACK I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I!! HATE!!! YOU!!!!!!

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Pelle the ball of light!

#metal

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ppl rly hate girls with eating disorders tbh. did anyone else notice this

#pol

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#metal

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and gender is one of those things where it's so deeply culturally ingrained that these categories must have overwhelming significance that most people are deeply reluctant to confront just how arbitrary most of our signifiers of them are. like there's no reason women should have short hair and men should have long hair, or that different sexes should wear different clothing or whatever, but there are still subcultures within our society today that would treat the idea of long hair on a man or a woman wearing pants as a transgressive sexual perversion. a lot of the really deranged behavior from the cis types, like confronting women with short hair when they try to use the women's bathroom, or the transvestigation conspiracy stuff on twitter, is, i really believe, a desperate emotional defense against the creeping awareness that without these arbitrary markers of difference, it would be really hard to tell men and women apart! if men and women generally wore similar hairstyles and clothing styles and had similar patterns of speech and posture and mannerisms, you might guess wrong twenty, thirty, even forty percent of the time! very awkward for you if your cisness and/or straightness is a load-bearing part of your identity. but your neuroses are kind of exhausting for the rest of us.

#pol

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sorry. i zoned out while you were talking because i saw the tips of your fangs and got hit with a wave of fondness & lust so strong it almost made me nauseous. What were you saying

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#metal