Life or at least a Close Approximation.
(Warning: This blog is NSFW. I try to make sure to tag appropriately, but sometimes I mess up.)
Thorin Oakenshield, King Under the Mountain
ten years later for groupfarts
WHEN I REBLOGGED THIS I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS A GIFFF
holy cow but that’s beautiful
just lookit the way his braids and his hair moves, omg
CUTE LITTLE STUBBY MAJESTY <3
Whole brain cellular-level activity mapping once a second
Neuroscientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have mapped the activity of nearly all the neurons in a vertebrate brain at cellular resolution, with signficant implications for neuroscience research. The researchers used high-speed light sheet microscopy to image the activity of 80% of the neurons in the brain (which is composed of ~100,000 neurons) of a fish larva at 0.8 Hz (an image every 1.3 seconds), with single-cell resolution.
This represents the first technology that achieves whole brain imaging of a vertebrate brain at cellular resolution with speeds that approximate neural activity patterns and behavior, as Nature Methods methagora blog noted. The authors saw correlated activity patterns at the cellular level that spanned large areas of the brain — pointing to the existence of broadly distributed functional circuits.
The next steps will be to determine the causal role that these circuits play in behavior — something that will require improvements in the methods for 3D optogenetics, the blog said. Obtaining the detailed anatomical map of these circuits will also be key to understand the brain’s organization at its deepest level.Sources: kurzweilai.net - nature.com
And in that moment I swear we were ineffable.
The frequency with which I’ve used this phrase over the years is pretty damn funny.
Why So Serious?
Officially My Creepiest Post Ever
JEEZUS! THIS FREAKED ME OUT!
this is the best
Here, have a terrifying gif. Also, I’m open for Rabbit gif/picture requests.
AWESOME
