The interior of a single cell in the brain, freeze fractured to reveal its organelles and imaged with a scanning electron microscope. The nucleus is purple, DNA is pink, endoplasmic reticulum is green, ribosomes are blue, golgi apparatus is olive, vesicles are yellow, and mitochondria are red. This image is part of a 600 megapixel mosaic, which can be seen in full resolution on gigapan. The sample was prepared with the osmium maceration technique by Dr. Patrick Nahirney, and imaged, stitched and colorized by James Tyrwhitt Drake.
Just a friendly reminder that our cells are crowded, beautiful, and intricate bags of all kinds of whoknows and whatsit.
Previously: Follow this up with a look at the marvelous molecular melee that exists at the synapse between two nerves. It’s gorgeous.
And definitely, definitely take a look at the hi-res gigapan of that cell up there. Oh my Golgi.
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Countries with lesser population than Shakira’s likes on Facebook
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all aboard the BONE TRAIN
This is the best picture I’ve seen in a long time
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obsessionthenarglesmademedoit:
But why the last one though
what am I not gettingI can’t breath…I have not laughed this hard in years
Okay, quick story about the last one- I go to this school too, and the creative writing teacher is rad as hell (like the kind to give out free coffee on fridays)
After all of the kids have submitted their short stories, he reads them all for the first time to his two kids, who help him grade them, in a way.
One time, a girl wrote a story about a sheep, named Trixie, making her dream come true by moving to the big city to become an actress, a singer, or whatever (he was pretty vague on the description)
She took a bus and a few trains and finally ended up in the ‘Big City’, where she tries to make her dream come true.
Now I dont remember the exact sequence of events that came next, but Trixie the sheep eventually ended up becoming a prostitute mid-sentence.
Our teacher didnt really realize this at the time, since it was his first time reading it, and to his kids he was caught completely off guard. And lets just say he had to explain a few new concepts to his kids that night..
And that’s why we can’t write any more stories about Trixie going to the Big City.
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i’ve been on tumblr all morning bc i didn’t have any work and i was waiting for my boss to get out of her meeting and then she did and she gave me a bunch of work to do and I’m still on tumblr
FUCKING DOIN WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT
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Anonymous asked: I was wondering if we could get some POC Applejack up in here? Cause there's not enough POC Applejack.
Sure thing!
for some reason, AJ and her fam are always defaulted to white and we SERIOUSLY need more ajs of colour.
~mod J
how convenient
this just so happens to be my headcanon for human applejack
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H O L Y CA N N O L I !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Launching of a London Rat Cafe! - London Dungeon creates quirky cafe where customers can drink with rats in a bid to remodel their image.
London Dungeon – an enclave of spooky corridors and shock-tactic exhibits which looks at the darker side of the history of the capital city – is celebrating the opening of its Rat Café, and with it, the chance for guests to enjoy a nice mug of ‘Ratuccino’ or a slice of ‘Black Forest Rateux’.
Health and safety officials will be relieved to hear that neither food nor drink at the Rat Café includes rats as genuine ingredients – but willing guests can, if they so choose, enjoy both while the little creatures dash about the room, or even sit on their shoulders.
Although this unusual form of catering is largely for fun, there is also a mildly serious point to it – an attempt to rehabilitate the image of a much-maligned creature.
‘Rats have been tarnished with an undeserved reputation throughout history – from the Black Death of the Middle Ages to the great stink of Victorian times,’ says Hywel Mathias of London Dungeon. ‘We wanted to challenge those perceptions and show they are actually characterful and full of fun.’
‘Our café lets people get even closer, handle them, stroke them and really get to know them.’
Although the Rat Café was a one-off for a group of rat-loving guests, London Dungeon is considering making the idea a regular event.
‘Judging by first reactions, this pop-up rat café could become a regular date on the eccentric things to do calendar,’ Mr Hywel says.
I am going to go there!
Where we should have lunch on a Vulture trip to London.
they need to do this while I’m there
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I’m watching tattoo nightmares and this guy has a tattoo of a little dick holding a knife covered in blood over a banner that says ‘murder boner’ and apparently his wife hates it
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