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...brain is a very energy-intensive organ, one that requires a lot of calories to keep running. When food intake is cut, the liver steps into the breach, producing glucose and sending it throughout the body - always making sure the brain gets a particularly generous helping. The liver's reserve lasts only about 24 hours, after which, cells begin breaking down the body's fats and proteins - essentially living off the land. As this happens, the composition of the blood - including hormones, neurotransmitters and metabolic by-products - changes. Throw this much loopy chemistry at a sensitive machine like the brain...
...voice snarling coarsely on top of it, Auerbach creates a smoky, back-alley vibe very much like that of a Tom Waits song. The album continues its slow crescendo, building up the intensity through the driving rhythm of “Heartbroken, In Disrepair,” the moodier, organ-driven “Real Desire,” and the raspy, Creedence Clearwater Revival-sounding “Mean Monsoon,” before hitting the album’s drum-dominated peak, “The Prowl.” “The Prowl?...
Hacohen’s research focuses on determining how immune responses are triggered under different conditions, including infections and for autoimmune reactions, such as organ transplant rejection or rheumatoid arthritis...
...Back in November, the New York Post's Page Six, famous for having perhaps the least onerous factual requirements of any media organ outside cyberspace, reported that Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour might be leaving. That set off a domino chain of reports that are still tipping over three months later. The New York Times weighed in at the turn of the year, opining that Vogue had become "stale and predictable" during Wintour's 20-year reign. Overseas, newspapers and magazines from England to Thailand picked up the tale. Somewhere it acquired the too-good-to-fact-check tidbit...
...love song of A. aegypti was a rather complex affair: the Cornell researchers had to chill the mosquitoes into unconsciousness, put them under a microscope, affix a pin about the width of a human hair to the back of the insects and place tiny electrodes on their Johnston's organ (a.k.a. their ear), which is located at the base of their antennae. The electrodes registered any changes in frequency heard by the mosquitoes. "This is the first time anyone has ever recorded from a mosquito's ear," Hoy says...