Posts about Biodynamics

Quadrillion

There’s 100 billion neurons in the brain. Each neuron has 10,000 connections to other neurons which therefore makes 1,000,000,000,000,000 connections for the whole brain or 1 quadrillion for short which is more than the number of particles in the Milky Way. So...

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Self Identification

Author: Angela Wheeler, New Zealand Teacher When you identify yourself to others, where do you point? Most would say the center of their chest. Why here? What’s the significance of this place? Some would say the heart resides here; but then why don’t...

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Sleep and Astrocytes

I read an interesting article recently in new scientist saying that astrocytes are responsible for sleep. Astrocytes are one of the neuroglial cells of the central nervous system. Neuroglial cells area like a connective tissue cellular network and support structure for the...

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Slime Mould

 click here for the article: 'Let slime moulds do the thinking!'  'Every part rhythmically expands and contracts, pushing around the fluid inside.'  Great article on slime mould. It is nice to see something more recent. The amazing slime mould video, that is...

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Slimemold

Here's a wonderful series of slimemold videos. (thanks to Tim).  http://youtu.be/9zAGp_7Xhss - waves  http://youtu.be/bkVhLJLG7ug - guy who's researched for 70 yrs  http://youtu.be/OX5Yiz38fgY - crazy spirals in this one  http://youtu.be/eTWNF-Rc3kk - protoplasmic streaming

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Social Rank linked to Immunity

Exciting article below showing once again the link between behaviour and the neuroendocrineimmune system. A study of 10 social groups of macaque females showed that the activity level of an individual's immune genes was an accurate predictor of her social rank."A study...

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