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Sansa Appreciation

Wed, 22 May 2013 02:26:49 -0400

I will write this later, but I do appreciate Sansa’s character even if most of the fans do not because they consider her to be “weak, spineless, pathetic, naive girl”. More on this later.

I might have a job. Wooo

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:13:09 -0400

Good of today:
I went into Lowes because my father is paying me to construct a fence for him, so I went in to ask the employees questions about no-dig fencing. I start talking with one of the employee and mention how I am a college student and that my family is paying me to build the fence cause I don’t have a summer job. Then he asks if I applied to Lowes yet and I say yes, so he goes on to say one of the cashiers is retiring…Needless to say, he offered me the job if I go in on Thursday cause he’ll talk to his manager and talk me up then I’ll get interviewed and more than likely get the job. Thank you, J.

bryantravels: Portland, Oregon (Photos by Bryan Meisel and...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:44:06 -0400

bryantravels:

Portland, Oregon (Photos by Bryan Meisel and Ariel Sultan)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:59:47 -0400

Neuroscience: Premature birth interrupts brain development

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:37:15 -0400

Neuroscience: Premature birth interrupts brain development:

neurosciencestuff:

Imaging technique shows premature birth interrupts vital brain development processes, leading to reduced cognitive abilities in infants

Researchers from King’s College London have for the first time used a novel form of MRI to identify crucial developmental processes in the brain that…

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Tue, 21 May 2013 16:25:01 -0400

amistillpretty: bemusedlybespectacled: ramoorebooks: opinionat...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:28 -0400

amistillpretty:

bemusedlybespectacled:

ramoorebooks:

opinionatedlez:

Here are some awesome and empowering quotes from several very strong female celebrities.

And Kristen Stewart.

No, you know what? Fuck you.

Let me tell you about Kristen Stewart.

Let’s talk about how she’s the centerpiece of one of the most inexplicably popular misogynistic pieces of film shit and somehow gets blamed for it sucking, despite the fact that, hey, the books were actually worse. For those who were lucky enough to escape reading the actual books, her apparent lack of emotion is 100% accurate to Bella’s character, because Bella is in fact not a character but a blank white wall for fourteen-year-old girls to project themselves onto. Robert Pattinson is not the only one in the cast who hates Twilight, thank you.

Let’s talk about how she got crucified in the media for having an affair with a married man, when that man was her director. And let’s remember that she was called all manner of things for “ruining her relationship with RPattz” when she wasn’t even engaged to the dude, let alone married with kids. But oh no, she gets called a slut because she’s Kristen Stewart, she gets her career fucked because she’s Kristen Stewart, and the dude gets off scott free.

Let’s talk about how she is incredibly shy and anxious (rather, incidentally, like Chris Evans) but does film anyway, because she’s just that awesome.

Fuck your noise. She’s not the best actor in the world but she sure as hell doesn’t deserve that kind of shit.

THANK YOU ^

Making cookie dough and eating it

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:46:23 -0400

jrabbit85: lyla-md: 42violethill: Saw this in 11th grade and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 20:05:59 -0400

jrabbit85:

lyla-md:

42violethill:

Saw this in 11th grade and I have been so enticed since…

Coolest shit ever.

I can see that on my own hand every day… except with the skin on. I have skinny, bony/tendony hands… veiny too, they’re very straight to boot. I’m a nursing student’s dream.

I wonder why this person’s skin was excised in such a perfect circle. Burn? Infection? I see some brown/black spots along the edges. So curious.

saranormale: Guess what I’m takin to Rome Pretty lady. <#

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:48:48 -0400

saranormale:

Guess what I’m takin to Rome

Pretty lady. <#

That awkward moment when there's a gay couple in the bible and nobody talks about it.

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:43:59 -0400

thediagonallie:

findadventure:

victoryjobs:

we were taught about how David and Jonathan were ~best bros~

when this was

obviously

not the case

#that time there was a gay couple in the bible and nobody talked about it ever

JOHNDAVE IS CANON I’M FUCKING LAUGHING SO HARD

robocook: Cocoa Powder Brownies Ingredients: 3/4 cup...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:21:46 -0400

robocook:

Cocoa Powder Brownies

Ingredients:

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

5 tablespoons cocoa

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:

Combine all ingredients and mix well.

Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes in an 8x8 or 9x9 pan.

Allow to cool before cutting.

ijustwantmotivation: getreadytosw-eat: ianoshea: me when I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:14:05 -0400

ijustwantmotivation:

getreadytosw-eat:

ianoshea:

me when I work out

everyday

is that Sansa Stark?

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Sun, 19 May 2013 14:12:57 -0400

neurosciencestuff: Human stem cells successfully cloned for the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:11:59 -0400

neurosciencestuff:

Human stem cells successfully cloned for the first time

A working process for cloning stem cells from existing human cells has finally been discovered by a team at Oregon Health & Science University.

These stem cells were created by reprogramming healthy skin cells, a goal that has eluded researchers around the world for years. It’s the first key step in developing medical procedures for replacing dying or injured cells with new ones to stave off disease and age. That could mean growing a new liver, or kidney or heart, in the lab for an organ transplant, or even repairing the brains of those suffering with diseases like Parkinson’s.

The team was led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov from the reproductive and developmental sciences department of the Oregon National Primate Research Centre. He said: “A thorough examination of the stem cells derived through this technique demonstrated their ability to convert just like normal embryonic stem cells into several different cell types, including nerve cells, liver cells and heart cells. Furthermore, because these reprogrammed cells can be generated with nuclear genetic material from a patient, there is no concern of transplant rejection.”

“While there is much work to be done in developing safe and effective stem cell treatments, we believe this is a significant step forward in developing the cells that could be used in regenerative medicine.”

The technique Mitalipov and his team used is called “somatic cell nuclear transfer” — as you can see in the video, it essentially involves sucking out the DNA from an adult cell and inserting it into the empty nucleus of a donor egg. This creates a clone of the original cell, and is in fact the first step in the cloning method used to create animal clones like Dolly the sheep.

However, in its therapeutic mode, the new cells can be grown as replacements for the original type of cell. That objective hasn’t been reached until now as human eggs are extremely fragile compared to many of the animals which we have cloned. That Mitalipov and team have succeeded is down to research on primates, and adapting primate stem cell research to humans.

As a cell divides after fertilisation, it undergoes several transformations as it prepares to split and multiply. The metaphase is the moment just before a cell splits, as the chromosomes align alongside each other in the very centre of the cell so that, when it splits, one goes one way as another goes the other, each taking the full copy of the genetic code. The researchers managed to stall the metaphase while the cell underwent nuclear transfer, effectively giving the new chromosomes time to get settled before the metaphase finished and cell division proceeded.

An added bonus is that the eggs used have not been fertilised, so there won’t be any debates over the ethics of embryonic stem cells as we have seen in the US in the past. While the researchers placed skin cell nuclei into the receptor egg cells, the method is conceivably similar for any other kind of cell.

And, while it may sounds like the first step towards a practical method for cloning humans, the Mitalipov has made it clear that’s not the aim. “Our research is directed toward generating stem cells for use in future treatments to combat disease. While nuclear transfer breakthroughs often lead to a public discussion about the ethics of human cloning, this is not our focus, nor do we believe our findings might be used by others to advance the possibility of human reproductive cloning.”

The research has been published in the journal Cell.

cleophatrajones: yannickbrouwer: This little company from...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:55:45 -0400

cleophatrajones:

yannickbrouwer:

This little company from Kenya makes toys from slippers that wash up on the beach. Pictures by Ben Curtis

How glorious is this?! Upcycling at its finest…

The wolves will come again: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:52:10 -0400

The wolves will come again: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?:

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You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he…

neurosciencestuff: Temporal Processing in the Olfactory System:...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:49:47 -0400

neurosciencestuff:

Temporal Processing in the Olfactory System: Can We See a Smell?

Sensory processing circuits in the visual and olfactory systems receive input from complex, rapidly changing environments. Although patterns of light and plumes of odor create different distributions of activity in the retina and olfactory bulb, both structures use what appears on the surface similar temporal coding strategies to convey information to higher areas in the brain. We compare temporal coding in the early stages of the olfactory and visual systems, highlighting recent progress in understanding the role of time in olfactory coding during active sensing by behaving animals. We also examine studies that address the divergent circuit mechanisms that generate temporal codes in the two systems, and find that they provide physiological information directly related to functional questions raised by neuroanatomical studies of Ramon y Cajal over a century ago. Consideration of differences in neural activity in sensory systems contributes to generating new approaches to understand signal processing.

so-relatable: Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are...

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:19:08 -0400

so-relatable:

Yahoo is trying to buy tumblr. Reblog if you are against this!

Studies

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:15:02 -0400

Is there any study concerning why people treat other people like animals? Examples would include patting someone’s head, calling them “Good boy or girl.”, or rewarding them with dog treats. Is it ingrained in someone’s childhood because that’s how their parents treated them and then it continues into adulthood? Or is it because children are associated and put in the same group as dogs and other animals?