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Post men you find beautiful. Not simply sexy or attractive but those with features that you find beauty in. I'll start.
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Well this is ironic. Account deactivated days later
argh i am so sad tumblr somehow made me unfollow you without me knowing
Do not worry my dear. Nothing can keep us apart!!
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argh i am so sad tumblr somehow made me unfollow you without me knowing
Do not worry my dear. Nothing can keep us apart!!
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Erik Satie Desiccated Embryo n°3. The basics.
what songs should a pianist be able to play
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Hi! Neuroscience person here!
Phagocytosis is not really about getting nutrients for the human body, it's mostly about cleaning up garbage. It's mostly performed by immune cells like macrophages, or, in the brain, microglia. It's about containing and destroying dead cell debris, pathogens, useless synapses, and piles of garbage (like protein aggregates) that accumulate as a result of cellular activity. If you don't get rid of the garbage, your organs will start looking like the streets of Paris when the garbage people are on strike: circulation becomes difficult, it gets all stinky and infected, and eventually if no one does anything the garbage problem makes the city unlivable. The garbage can cause damage or even death to surrounding cells. When it comes to the brain, garbage disposal is extremely important because protein aggregates are the main cause of various forms of dementia.
So I would say a more accurate catchphrase would be that there are cells that eat the garbage in your brain to make it work smoothly :)
Phagocytosis is a method of getting nutrients in unicellular beings (meaning one cell organisms, like the amœba in the illustration in your post) but when it comes to multicellular organisms, they have a whole system designed for obtaining nutrients and they don't rely on phagocytosis for it. Although the recycling that can happen after phagocytosis is always an nice bonus.
Kudos if you read that whole review article because it's long af and very intimidating when you're not used to scientific articles.
Hey, did you guys know..
Your brain is eating itself, like right now.
Well, kinda sorta not really, but that opener sounded a lot cooler than “the cells in your brain are using their plasma membrane to absorb and destroy larger particles”
Basically, the cells in your brain find something that they decide shouldn’t be there for whatever reason, so naturally they engulf and digest it before essentially… burping it out.
Anyway, here’s a diagram:
As you can see, this is how our brains eat (i’m pretty sure, check me on it if i’m wrong), and this is a very necessary process called phagocytosis, and it plays a role in the brain/body getting nutrients (: good job cells!
I am not a neuroscientist, all of my information comes from this link:
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Y'all this is IT
I found my master's internship, with an almost certain opportunity for a PhD lined up right after.
I enjoy life again. Neuroscience is life. Life is beautiful. I can't wait to mess with those fruit flies for a living. I'm gonna be PAID. To do SCIENCE. Not even the kind of science that's likely to develop treatments for useful shit, no, the "we wondered if the BinGBonG protein affects calcium signaling in Kloppenschmitz cells and what the consequences are for tapdancing behavior in D. eeznut juvenile females" kind of science.
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The thing is, often people know there's some extremely sexual meaning behind the english songs on the radio, they just don't care anyway.
When I was a kid, my father passed me down his taste for classic rock and hard rock that he liked since he was a teen. I liked Led Zeppelin and ACDC. My father himself did not really understand the lyrics. When I got better at english and realised how horny it all was, with lyrics like "Shake for me girl, I wanna be your backdoor man! *repeated moaning*", I started asking my dad "do you understand what he's saying right now??" His response is always "no and I don't want to know".
honestly, being fluent in english while living in a non-english-speaking country is quite funny for the peculiar experiences it provides, such as being in a crowded bus where the driver is listening to me so horny at 9 in the morning and nobody is giving a damn
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talk to me about anything and i'll connect it to classical music
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Me when the noses start dancing (I jizz and spunk every time) (this means I have a deeper understaning of music than you pleb)
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The thing with The Greats in classical music is, upon listening to their pieces, you feel why they're The Greats. The music is so high quality it pulls you in more than any composer you've met - and you've met BADASSES. This, this, this, when you hear this, it distinguishes itself as its own class. Almost immediately, you're consumed. On its own, composing music isn't hard. On its own, hearing the works of other colleagues is informative and educational but not intimidating. On its own, personal growth in composing is rewarding and tenable. And you start to think, "Hey, not bad!" But when you sit down and listen to Bach, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Schubert, Sibelius, Dvořák, Rachmaninoff, in 20 seconds, you're humbled beyond belief. I could not do this. You are small. In a minute: This is art. This is art. This is art. And you're five minutes in, and the brilliance and maturity and nuance and intricacy and variety of ideas and flow and flawless execution, and you think, I REALLY could not do this. Eight minutes in, and it's almost unbearably incredible. And you look over the breadth of their repertoire. And he did it over and over and over and over again, at THIS level. You are nothing, you are dust. It is emotionally overwhelming. You are loomed over by a class of giants. It could be I chords and V chords and IV chords like everyone else, and you're basking at the toe of the tallest Monuments in the world. How could we make these instruments? How could we assemble these sounds? How could we evoke soul so perfectly but so perfectly human? It is good to feel humbled. It is good to bask in this art. We are blessed we live at a time where these pieces have been written and can be enjoyed at the ready. We are blessed to live in a time where we access this much classical music at our finger tips and at our ear drums. We are blessed we can freely - freely, without cost - access scores and recordings. This isn't some perverted idea of elitism. This is grateful awe. Guys, we get to listen to music. We have access to music. What a wonderful world we live in, with talented humans, the endless flowing of ideas, and art that's stood the test of time.
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hi classical music tumblr. it has come to my attention that not enough of you are aware of the fact that leonard bernstein wrote poetry. specifically a poem called “life is juicy.” from 1947. and it’s. it’s really one of the poems ever
#bernstein#truly some of the successions of words of all time#the first one looks like leo opened a nature encyclopedia#circled random words#decided to make them fit in a text#in the second one I can literally hear his voice go ladeedadeeda#that seems like a very bernstein thing to do
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random excerpts from wikipedia pages on classical pieces. enjoy
#classical music#music history#i'm dying this is amazing#flabbergasted that there was a time where you could call someone “un cul” and “monsieur” in the same sentence#flabbergasted that Prokofiev got the experience of a restaurant owner getting a negative yelp review before the restaurant opens#flabbergasted that. Scriabin.
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shostakovich had this saying, “beware the stone guest.” this is a nod to the pushkin play “the stone guest,” but when he said it, he meant he did Not like it when guests absolutely refused to leave his house and instead stood there chatting in the doorway. what a relatable icon
#my parents did this at my aunt and uncle's house yesterday at 9 in the evening#i hated it#shostakovich
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New hobby: going through a big city, turning on the wifi and looking at the router names
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If Stockhausen in gen z then millenials are the turn of the century composers, gen x are the romantics, boomers are classical and silent gen is baroque
the main reason i don't view 1980s music as "old" is because when I think of music I think of classical composers and classical composers from time are guys like stockhausen (labelled modernist) and people today are indeed still not ready for Guys Like Stockhausen. to me old music is like. bach. stockhausen is more like a gen z there
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