Saturday, April 23, 2011
Meghan: writing with left hand
attention and sleep sleep sleep in the cerebellum cerebellum unpure dopamine serotonin fast gets messy mood affective not so much these days depending on what are motivates you sometimes motivation is internal my motivation is that can you recognize these variables motivations is a need or desire nobody wants to kiss when theyre hungry abraham maslew's theory arousal theory your esteem everything everything begins to fit into a pattern there are lots of variations want to write with mmy other had need lotion for my legs. arousal theory do something to reduce drie (hunger/boredom) instinct of salmon to migrate upstream animal behavior is useful and interesting in itself, not useless konrad lorenz was bird mommy grooming swimming. this teacher lis babies too much the longer you live as a species the less instinctual behaviors these kinds of stimuli are based on hunger pairs.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Jasmine: All the smells of the rainbow
Putrefaction and Autolysis, sigh, just those two words send my nose all tingly and a smile across my face. Things that happen to the body after death has been the theme in my forensic anthropology class for some time now and a few days ago my teacher got down to the actual decomposition of the materials. Yay!
Autolysis, not to be confused with autothysis, is the natural breakdown of the cells in our body. When we stop breathing, essentially living, we stop being able to produce lots and lots of ATP (energy) with that oxygen. But our body, though dead, continues to produce the ATP, and by doing so ends up producing lots and lots of lactic acid. Those of you who remember glycolysis and the kreb cycle should know this. If you don’t or never knew it, lactic acid is what causes your muscles to burn when you exercise hard, this is because you are exercising so fast that the oxygen you take in can’t be used for ATP fast enough and so lactic acid is built up.
This build of lactic acid degrades the cell and actually degrades the cell to cell connections. If you were alive you would heal this before it got this far. Organs sort of liquefy, and coagulate into a thick sticky, kinda mushy chunky fluid. The brain actually liquefies to a grey soup. The skin stays intact mostly for a while and we become a bag of smelly fluid. When the cells degrade, sulfur containing amino acids methionine and homocysteine and possibly others, degrade into hydrogen sulfide which reacts with iron from the blood to create black ferrous sulfide. Blood vessels close to the surface are visible as black lines. This gives off a marbling effect. We become a marble smelly bag of fluid!
Secondly Putrefaction, it’s the better known aspect of decomposition, or at least more often mentioned. All over and all inside our bodies are bacteria. The human body actually contains more bacterial cells then human cells a lot of them are even necessary to human survival. These live primarily in our intestines. While our body is alive it keeps all of these bacteria at bay. The moment we stop living and fighting them, they eat us alive. One of the products of the bacteria eating us is methane gas. It accumulates in the body hugely bloating the body including swelling the tongue out of the mouth as the gas tries to find a way to escape. The swelling continues until the maggot mass (another lovely aspect of dying) eats through the abdominal wall releasing the gasses.
I don’t know why I felt the urge to blog this. I know I find it interesting and I will forever and ever, but many of you readers will probably be disgusted. Because this will happen to all of you unless you take precautions. I urge you, find a vampire, make friends, convince them to turn you into one of their kind. That or go the Egyptian route and mummify that body. Or cremation. Okay there are lots of routes. I prefer the vampire one but I’m not going to force my opinion on you.
Autolysis, not to be confused with autothysis, is the natural breakdown of the cells in our body. When we stop breathing, essentially living, we stop being able to produce lots and lots of ATP (energy) with that oxygen. But our body, though dead, continues to produce the ATP, and by doing so ends up producing lots and lots of lactic acid. Those of you who remember glycolysis and the kreb cycle should know this. If you don’t or never knew it, lactic acid is what causes your muscles to burn when you exercise hard, this is because you are exercising so fast that the oxygen you take in can’t be used for ATP fast enough and so lactic acid is built up.
This build of lactic acid degrades the cell and actually degrades the cell to cell connections. If you were alive you would heal this before it got this far. Organs sort of liquefy, and coagulate into a thick sticky, kinda mushy chunky fluid. The brain actually liquefies to a grey soup. The skin stays intact mostly for a while and we become a bag of smelly fluid. When the cells degrade, sulfur containing amino acids methionine and homocysteine and possibly others, degrade into hydrogen sulfide which reacts with iron from the blood to create black ferrous sulfide. Blood vessels close to the surface are visible as black lines. This gives off a marbling effect. We become a marble smelly bag of fluid!
Secondly Putrefaction, it’s the better known aspect of decomposition, or at least more often mentioned. All over and all inside our bodies are bacteria. The human body actually contains more bacterial cells then human cells a lot of them are even necessary to human survival. These live primarily in our intestines. While our body is alive it keeps all of these bacteria at bay. The moment we stop living and fighting them, they eat us alive. One of the products of the bacteria eating us is methane gas. It accumulates in the body hugely bloating the body including swelling the tongue out of the mouth as the gas tries to find a way to escape. The swelling continues until the maggot mass (another lovely aspect of dying) eats through the abdominal wall releasing the gasses.
I don’t know why I felt the urge to blog this. I know I find it interesting and I will forever and ever, but many of you readers will probably be disgusted. Because this will happen to all of you unless you take precautions. I urge you, find a vampire, make friends, convince them to turn you into one of their kind. That or go the Egyptian route and mummify that body. Or cremation. Okay there are lots of routes. I prefer the vampire one but I’m not going to force my opinion on you.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Jasmine: Self Destructive Behavior
I haven’t blogged in 57 days, Abe hasn’t blogged in 64 days, Sarah hasn’t blogged in 54 days Doug hasn’t blogged in 42 days, and Meghan is winning with a grand total of 22 days since her last blog
But I don’t blame any of you, I actually can’t without casting heaps of blame onto myself which I am incapable of doing so I will wait until after this has posted and then point and glare from my high ground where the grass is green and the fruits are sweet.
Mostly I don’t blame you because I’ve been incredibly busy, and everyone I talk to also seems to be busy. This week in particular is going to be a kind of hell, but I figured if I had time to watch vlog brothers I have time to write a blog, so I’m trying.
I have an essay due this Thursday, I had to research a topic in deviance and I chose suicide in the elderly. My mind likes to wander and make interesting associations where it will, and this combined with a vlogbrothers video on power moves of the animal kingdom led me to do some random interesting research on some of the destructive behaviors the vlog brothers described as power moves
Autothysis
It’s a process where an animal suicides by exploding some part of itself! When carpenter ants battle and it seems like they’re not going to win, they contract muscles in their abdomens exploding two mandibular glands along the sides of their bodies which sprays a glue like poison in all directions. This both immobilizes their prey and kills them. Several species of termites are also capable of this minus the poison glue. They explode their bodies in tunnels to block entrances and protect a colony from invasion.
Trichobatrachus robustus
Common name the hairy frog, also known as WOLVERINE FROG! There is a bone in its foot that acts like a cat’s claws minus the keratin, and retractability and they have to break their own bones in order to push it through the skin! When threatened they indeed break bones in their back feet and claws extend.
The frog led me to another amphibian
The Spanish ribbed newt when attacked with rotate its ribcage forward and contract is body forcing the sharp spiny ends of the ribs through its skin (there are no ready made holes it cuts its skin) and into its attacker.
I thought these self destructive behaviors were pretty cool and I shared them with you. Credit where credit is due, the vlogbrothers got me started on this with a video and mentioned the carpenter ants and the hairy frog
But I don’t blame any of you, I actually can’t without casting heaps of blame onto myself which I am incapable of doing so I will wait until after this has posted and then point and glare from my high ground where the grass is green and the fruits are sweet.
Mostly I don’t blame you because I’ve been incredibly busy, and everyone I talk to also seems to be busy. This week in particular is going to be a kind of hell, but I figured if I had time to watch vlog brothers I have time to write a blog, so I’m trying.
I have an essay due this Thursday, I had to research a topic in deviance and I chose suicide in the elderly. My mind likes to wander and make interesting associations where it will, and this combined with a vlogbrothers video on power moves of the animal kingdom led me to do some random interesting research on some of the destructive behaviors the vlog brothers described as power moves
Autothysis
It’s a process where an animal suicides by exploding some part of itself! When carpenter ants battle and it seems like they’re not going to win, they contract muscles in their abdomens exploding two mandibular glands along the sides of their bodies which sprays a glue like poison in all directions. This both immobilizes their prey and kills them. Several species of termites are also capable of this minus the poison glue. They explode their bodies in tunnels to block entrances and protect a colony from invasion.
Trichobatrachus robustus
Common name the hairy frog, also known as WOLVERINE FROG! There is a bone in its foot that acts like a cat’s claws minus the keratin, and retractability and they have to break their own bones in order to push it through the skin! When threatened they indeed break bones in their back feet and claws extend.
The frog led me to another amphibian
The Spanish ribbed newt when attacked with rotate its ribcage forward and contract is body forcing the sharp spiny ends of the ribs through its skin (there are no ready made holes it cuts its skin) and into its attacker.
I thought these self destructive behaviors were pretty cool and I shared them with you. Credit where credit is due, the vlogbrothers got me started on this with a video and mentioned the carpenter ants and the hairy frog
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