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The Original Broadway Cast of Disney’s The Lion King
Mufasa :: Sarabi :: Young Nala and Simba :: Simba :: Nala:: Rafiki :: Pumba and Timon :: Zazu :: Scar :: The Hyenas (Ed, Shenzi, and Banzai)
This was one of the most amazingly costumed Broadway shows I’ve ever seen.
Scientists at Newcastle University have shed new light on how the brain tunes in to relevant information.
Publishing in Neuron, the team reveal the interplay of brain chemicals which help us pay attention in work funded by the Wellcome Trust and BBSRC.
By changing the way neurons respond to external stimuli we improve our perceptual abilities. While these changes can affect the strength of a neuronal response, they can also affect the fidelity of that response.
Lead author Alex Thiele, Professor of Visual Neuroscience explains: “When you communicate with others, you can make yourself better heard by speaking louder or by speaking more clearly. Neurons appear to do similar things when we’re paying attention. They send their message more intensely to their partners, which compares to speaking louder. But more importantly, they also increase the fidelity of their message, which compares to speaking more clearly.
“Our earlier work has shown that attention is able to affect the intensity of responses – in effect the loudness - by means of the brain chemical acetylcholine. Now we have shown that the fidelity of the response is altered by a different brain chemical system.”
In the paper, the team reveal that the quality of the response is altered by means of glutamate coupling to NMDA receptors (a molecular device that mediates communication between neurons). Carried out in a primate model, these studies for the first time isolate different attention mechanisms at the receptor level.
The research builds on the team’s previous studies and has potentially significant implications not only for our understanding of how our brains work but also give an insight into conditions such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease and attention deficit disorder, and may aid in the development of treatments for them.
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I just imagine how Julian felt when he read Garak’s letter (A Stitch in Time)
I mean, how he felt when he noticed that it wasn’t an ordinary letter, I imagine how he felt when he realized that Garak was going to tell him his history in details, a thing that Julian spent years and years trying to...
Star Trek: The Fall -- a five-part The Next Generation-Deep Space Nine crossover penned by five popular authors, with covers created by three Star Trek artists -- won’t kick off until, well, the fall. But we here at StarTrek.com are so excited about the upcoming Simon & Schuster project that we’re devoting several days of coverage to it, including interviews and art.
Livestream resulted in this!
Leave me to fiddle, and I make sparkles.
Thanks to all who came, you are lovely~~
maybe he’s born with it, maybe it’s genetic engineering
Damn. Missed the livestream AGAIN.
I know you’re out there Elise
Circling the waters like a gotdamned shark.
These are essentially random drabbles. They started off cute in my head but then I remembered child rearing is not cute. Not really. So..uh yeah. The end was after I somehow constructed a story about why their youngest would be so young and it needed to be tragic because HAHAHA idk. bye
don’t read it.
fun fact in ds9 jadzia dax mentions that one of her past lives, emony, who was an olympic gymnast, had an affair with one leonard mccoy while she was judging a tournament on earth and nO ONE has wriTTEN me fANFICTION ABOUT IT
Good times… good times…
You know those movies that make your heart ache when you’re finished? You’ve wanted to watch it for so long, that when you do, its beauty just leaves you feeling… I don’t know, nostalgic when it’s over. I’m a big fan of Alexander Siddig, ever since I saw him in Kingdom of Heaven, so this movie was on the top of my ‘to watch list’ from the moment I heard of its production. Now I can cross this sad, emotional affair of a movie off my to do list.
1. Everybody watch this must-watch great movie “Cairo time”. It is poetry on screen 2. Please someone tell Sid to stop getting prettier, i can’t, i can’t… 3. Am i the only one who thinks this man has the most beautiful profile ever??
Nope. You are not alone, my friend. Take comfort in that. Sid fans unite and be comforted! Okay, so I had to get that off my chest.
The King of Videobombs.
Cairo Time (2009)
Cairo Time was really good!
I wish I could have grabbed some screenshots for you guys, but Netflix on a college internet connection doesn’t make for pretty ones, so I’m sorry…
Also, I really got too caught up in the movie to pay attention to anything else.
I highly recommend it to anyone who...
