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Action Potentials for September (opens the original)
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1: There is a particular type of fish in Africa that uses a unique organ in its tail to create an Electric Organ Discharge (EOD). This is a small electrical pulse that allows it to communicate and navigate. However, these discharges interfere with a different passive system that the fish uses for sensing weak electrical fields on prey organisms1. So, it needs a way to integrate these two signals: <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!
Who invented antibiotics? (opens the original)
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In December 1935, Gerhard Domagk faced every parent’s nightmare. His six-year-old daughter Hildegard had been carrying Christmas crafts on the stairs of their home when she stumbled and fell. A needle she was holding went deep into her hand, all the way down to the wrist bone. Her doctors took X-rays and removed the needle, but a severe infection with the bacteria Streptococcus soon developed in her arm.In 1935, severe forms of this infection were nearly tantamount to a death sentence. Streptoco
Action Potentials for August (opens the original)
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1: Animal nervous systems have been evolving over hundreds of millions of years. How have they changed? That’s a big question. A new paper addresses a small part of it, which might generalize to other parts too, as it tends to go in biology. Specifically, they study the ring attractor, which acts as an internal compass (previous
They laughed at the Wright brothers, they laughed at Fulton, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown (opens the original)
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The term “quack” seems to come from “quacksalver”, a term used in the 1500s and 1600s. Perhaps medical charlatans were so aplenty that there ended up being no need to qualify them with a specific term. <source type="image/we
The wrong Gustav Mann (opens the original)
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Gustav Mann (1836-1916) was a German botanist who traveled around the world, including to West Africa and India, before becoming a gardener at Kew Gardens in London. Wikipedia tells us of all this. It also provides this picture: <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" heig
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