[welcome-to-sunnydale]

“Spike is an antihero in the true sense of the word, he is morally ambiguous and ready to fight pretty much anyone, for fun. But underneath it all, he loves deeply and earnestly in a way that remains achingly human. Although, ironically, his personality remains pretty much the same, whether he has a soul or not” x

Vampires are supposed to be utterly demoniac but Spike is not, that’s why he had troubles separating his mother from the demon when he turned her. His humanity is a part of him that he assumes and uses.  He is a skilled analyst who can see through people’s walls , he is insightful and very intelligent. He seeks the slayer out whereas she is everyone’s nightmares, he wants to feel everything. He is unique. That’s what make him one of the most dangerous vampires ever.

how to “get” fahrenheit temps

[bemusedlybespectacled]

think of it as a percentage of heat

40% hot? eh, kind of on the chilly side

75% hot? that’s pretty warm now

20% hot? that’s actually not warm at all

110% hot? we’re dying

[letsmcfreakingloseit]

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

[irrelevenceisfutile]

Fun fact: the Fahrenheit scale is used in temperature according to how it feels to a human. So looking at in percents actually is what you should do

[s3diya]

Now can I get a cheat sheet for Celsius

[runonsentencesaboutemotions]

Ask water how hot it feels.

[prokopetz]

The notion that the Fahrenheit scale is based on how temperature feels to humans is only half true.

It’s true that 100 degrees Fahrenheit (well, 96, for Reasons) was originally defined as human body temperature.

Zero degrees, however, isn’t based on any human reference point.

Rather, it’s set where it is because the guy who came up with the Fahrenheit scale just hated using negative numbers, so he pegged 0 Fahrenheit to the record low temperature in his hometown of Gdańsk, Poland.

So it’s less “100 feels really hot. and 0 feels really cold” and more “100 is roughly human body temperature, and 0 is colder than it ever gets in Gdańsk.”

[humanoidhistory]

“Was it a great experience? Of course it was. You fly in Earth orbit, you fly over a river or lake, a city, a coastline, maybe even you get a glimpse of your own hometown, flying at 18,000 miles, traverse the Earth once every 90 minutes, flies through a magnificently beautiful sunrise and sunset, every revolution, what, 16 of them every 24 hours. But when you go to the Moon you accelerate to 24, 25,000 miles an hour, and you get to look back. That’s when you begin to see the world in a true perspective for the first time.”

—Gene Cernan (1934-2017)

[it8bit]

Arrival

Art by Gustavo Viselner || FB

[ds9shameblog]

hrrmm

[currentsinbiology]

How white blood cells rip holes in your blood vessels—and how your blood vessels recover

White blood cells are constantly tearing holes in your blood vessel walls. But these guardians of the immune system are doing it to protect you: Once they ride through the bloodstream to infected tissues—where they make antibodies and eat foreign invaders—they need a way to get inside. Now, scientists have discovered just how they do it without permanently damaging blood vessels, which they slip into and out of up to 10 times each day. First, researchers added fluorescent tags to their nuclei and to the structural fibers of blood vessel walls, which keep out foreign particles and seal in blood, plasma, and immune cells. The researchers then tracked the process with video-microscopy. They found that blood vessel cells were not the ones making the openings, as previously thought. Instead, immune cells make their own way across. By softening their bulky nuclei and pushing them to the front edge of their cells, white blood cells probe apart scaffolding in the blood vessel walls and squeeze through, researchers report online today in Cell Reports.

This process (seen above) snaps smaller, threadlike fibers that form the flexible scaffolding of blood vessel walls; the cells easily repair that breakage later as part of routine cellular maintenance. The researchers hope to use their discovery to better understand how metastatic cancer cells migrate into the bloodstream and spread cancer throughout the body.

A. Barzilai et. al. Cell Reports 18, 3 (17 January 2017) © 2017 Elsevier Inc.

[humanoidhistory]

February 19, 1966 – Gemini 9 astronaut Gene Cernan has his spacesuit adjusted by suit technician Al Rochford. (NASA)