"no Thoughts, Head Empty."

here, I’ll put this here too since people on twitter seem to like it… no bugs 🤔

Tanghulu is a hawthorn sweet popular in China. There are several compounds responsible for the special taste of hawthorn, including Leaf alcohol of fresh-grass flavor, Ethyl formate of rum and berries smell, and cis-3-Hexenyl Acetate which contributes to the fruity.

Why did I think anyone would like this?

Removing Troublemakers

A few rotten apples shouldn’t ruin the whole bunch. With millions of cells in the body, it’s inevitable that some will make a misstep and need to be quietly removed. Extrusion is one method for such a dismissal, when a rogue cell is squeezed out of a layer of cells with minimal disruption to its neighbours (pictured, centre pink cell being extruded from the green embryo of a microscopic worm). A new study investigated genetic activity linked to extrusion, and revealed that the process is triggered when cells falter in the midst of DNA replication and cell division. Such errors can prompt cancer development, so removing these cells might be an intrinsic cancer-prevention technique. Further experiments in human cells revealed the involvement of a well-known cancer suppressor protein called p53, showing the body aims to cull cancerous cells before they get going.

Written by Anthony Lewis

Image from work by Vivek K. Dwivedi and colleagues

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Image copyright held by the original authors

Research published in Nature, May 2021

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Pokemon Sakura Tea Cup Pins made by Kat Kashima

Also melli my fav in pokemon legends arceus so far (first time drawing)

Some thanzag sketch.

Pokemon really took all the “the games are too easy now” complaints and fueled the single hardest trainer battle in the franchise to date holy shit

Volo is a badass fight but god damn it took me so, SO many tries

to be perfectly honest. i don't care if it is cheesy or cliched or idealistic. i like stories where the core of it is about kindness, the warmth we can offer others and the gentleness we receive in return. maybe the moral of the story IS love triumphs. it better fucking be