Wednesday, September 30, 2009
How To Draw Graffiti Alphabet Gold
Graffiti Bubble Black
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Korea Actress: Na-yeong Lee
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Graffiti Alphabet Hip Hop Full Of Color
Graffiti Alphabet Best Of The Best: New Graffiti Alphabet
Graffiti Alphabet Colorful Bubble
Monday, September 28, 2009
Digital Graffiti Alphabet Orange and White
Digital Graffiti Alphabet A B C Light Blue
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Earth Bubble Graffiti Alphabet
Cool Graffiti Alphabet Design | Graffiti Alphabet Fire
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Japan Actress: Ueno Juri
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Monday, September 21, 2009
The Primetime Emmy Awards
We love TV. From cop dramas to reality shows to half-hour comedies, we can’t get enough of the boob tube. And that’s why Emmys night gets us so excited. The high-profile red-carpet event honors the most talented television actors and celebrates the best of the small screen. Here we highlight a few of our favorite moments from the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards. We laughed, we cried, and we watched in absolute awe. See who won and what happened HERE.
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Salma Hayek Celebrity Hairstyles with Headbands
Salma Hayek is spotted wearing a high updo hairstyle with headband in black dyed hair while attending the 2009 ALMA Awards. These types of short updo’s are becoming more and more popular with not only celebrities but for the average woman as well. Wear this hairstyle as a wedding hairstyle, prom hairstyle, formal hairstyle or in general as a elegant hairstyle for those elegant events or other special occasions.
Salma Hayek Celebrity Hairstyles with Headbands
Salma Hayek Short Hairstyles with Headbands
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Malaysia Singer: Siti Norhaliza
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Thunderstorm shadows
As the sun was almost setting, the shadows of the storm clouds reached a length of several hundred kilometers. The satellite picture taken at 19.15 UTC = 21.15 CEST shows the shadows extending even up to Thuringia and northern Bavaria.
Unfortunately, there are no reports on crepuscular rays from the area southeast of the thunderstorms.
Author: Peter Krämer, Bochum, Germany
Satellite image with kind permission of DWD (German Weather Office)
Ayaka Noda lace deco dress and scarf
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Yui Minami in blue kimono
Taiwan Actress: Joyce Zhao Hong Qiao
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Bizarre Tongue-Eating Parasite Found in the Jersey Coast
The sea-dwelling parasite attacks fish, burrows into it, and then devours its tongue. After eating the tongue, the parasite proceeds to live inside the fish's mouth. There's a horror film waiting to be made about this thing. Surprisingly, the fish doesn't seem to suffer any severe impediment--just the loss of its tongue--and seems to have no trouble surviving with its new, far uglier tongue.
While the isopod, a kind of louse, has been known to exist for a while now, discoveries of live specimens is rare. The BBC reports that "Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish." So no, the tongue-eater wasn't found in that Jersey. The Jersey Shore is still tongue replacing creature-free, if you stateside Northeasterners were worried about the thing ruining your late summer vacationing.
Not that you'd have to be too concerned anyways--the isopod isn't a threat to humans in the slightest, though it's reportedly vicious, and can deliver quite a little bite. One of the fishermen who found the creature described it thus: "Really quite large, really quite hideous - if you turn it over its got dozens of these really sharp, nasty claws underneath and I thought 'that's a bit of a nasty beast'." And while it can't seriously hurt people, it evidently doesn't like them: "It doesn't affect humans other than if you do actually come across a live one and try and pick it up - they are quite vicious, they will deliver a good nip."
20 Percent(%) of Our Energy Used By The Neurons (Brain)
The story begins seventy years ago when a pair of British physiologists, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley, took the first stab at figuring out how neurons transmit electrical signals, known as action potentials. Because most neurons are small–in humans, a cubic millimeter of gray matter can contain 40,000 neurons–the duo turned to squid, which contain a giant axon, the long thin part of a neuron through which action potentials travel. Those early experiments found that transmitting the action potential along the axon was a very inefficient process that used a great deal of energy, and neuroscientists ever since have assumed that mammal brains had the same inefficient wiring.
Researcher Henrik Alle, lead author of the new study published in Science, decided to reexamine the old assumptions. “I saw this old work,” says Alle. “I thought I cannot believe personally that nature would waste such energy.” Alle figured that nature would have made the process more efficient in mammals, whose brains send a huge number of messages [NPR News].
Alle and his colleagues studied rat brains using sophisticated techniques that weren’t available to Hodgkin and Huxley, and found that rat neurons use only about a third as much energy to transmit the action potential. The researchers say we can assume that the results from rats can be applied to human brain cells. “Electrical signals found in mammalian brain cell types are very similar”, says Alle.
The difference between the cephalopod and the mammals can be explained by the movements of the positively and negatively charged ions that flow in and out of the neuron, changing its voltage and beginning the electric pulse of the action potential that moves down the axon. Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to suggest that the squid cells were inefficient because sodium ions entering the cells neutralised the effect of potassium ions leaving. This hampered the creation of a net voltage across the cell membrane. “It’s like having the accelerator and the brake on at the same time,” says Arnd Roth, a study coauthor. In rat cells, however, the process is better coordinated so that almost all the sodium ions enter before potassium ions rush out.
The results don’t change the scientific thesis that although the brain accounts for only 2 percent of our body weight, it consumed 20 percent of our energy–it just means that the energy is being used by the neurons in other ways than to generate action potentials. Researchers suspect that the bulk of energy that goes to the brain is used for keeping the brain cells alive and used in synapses, where signals are transmitted from one neuron to the next.