31st May 2012
Reblogged From leivos
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Rare Russian Vintage Advertising Posters
In honor of Russia Day, we scoured the world wide web for interesting eye candy. We stumbled upon this unique gallery of posters from Tzarist and Soviet Russia. Check it out.
“The Spear” by South African Artist Brett Murray
- Camera: Nikon D300
- Aperture: f/18
- Exposure: 1/80th
- Focal Length: 35mm
- Camera: Nikon D700
- Aperture: f/2.8
- Exposure: 1/40th
- Focal Length: 40mm
by Camil Tulcan
I’ve been staring at this for like 5 minutes…. O_O
This is fucking with my eyes.
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!
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Human Brain Loses Billions of Neurons in New Analysis
by Jennifer Welsh
The whole human race just got a little dumber: A new analysis of the number of neurons, those brain cells that transmit thoughts, in the human brain has come back with a staggeringly lower number than thought — 14 billion brain cells fewer, about the size of the babboon brain.
The highly quoted number of human brian cells, 100 billion, doesn’t stand up to actual experimental inquiry, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, an assistant professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, told the Nature neuroscience podcast NeuroPod.
The work was performed on four human brains, ages 50, 51, 54 and 71, from men who donated their brains to science…
(read more: Live Science) (image: idesign | Shutterstock)
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