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Fandoms Meeting.

  • Doctor Who:

    I would like to call this meeting to-

  • Lord of the Rings:

    Why are you in charge? I mean, your show is the oldest, but I was around a decade before you, and Sherlock Holmes has been around since the 1880's. If we're going off fandom age, Doctor, Sherlock should be in charge.

  • Doctor Who:

    You're usually the rational one, but have you gone mad? Because of BBC, Sherlock is, well, not like he used to be.

  • Sherlock:

    *sitting in the corner rocking back and forth* 18 months, 18 months, 18 months, 18 months, 18 months, 18 months-

  • Harry Potter:

    We know Sherlock, we know. It's been almost 2 years for us too, except we've finished, You have somehing left at least. We don't.

  • Doctor Who:

    If you don't mind, we have an issue we need to discuss-

  • Supernatural:

    If you're all quite done being English, the Doctor has something to say!

  • Avengers:

    Calm down SPN, it isn't the end of the World he's announcing. But if it is, I know some great heroes that can help you out.

  • Hetalia:

    America's the hero! He'll save you!

  • Black Butler:

    Promise a demon your soul and you won't need heroes, he'll save you.

  • Supernatural:

    Did somebody say demon?! *salt at the ready*

  • Doctor Who:

    There's something really important I need to tell you!

  • Sherlock:

    18 months, 18 months, 18 months, 18 months, 18 months-

  • Supernatural:

    Is he possessed? I mean, my show had it's season finale recently and I'm not like that!

  • Sherlock:

    *jumps on the table* Your eye is twitching, a sign of nerves, and you looked up into the upper left corner of your eye before saying that, only for a second, but it's enough to prove you're lying. You have been in the state or hysetria that I'm currently in, you're just good at hiding your emotions!

  • Lord of the Rings:

    He's doing it again. Sherlock, that's enough deducting for now. Last time, you found out that Homestuck and Hetalia have a 'mutual respect' thing going on.

  • Homestuck:

    People hate on our fandoms, we stick together. We never made it not obvious.

  • Hetalia:

    We're moirails, where have you guys been? (pases Homestuck some pasta)

  • Doctor Who:

    IF WE ARE ALL QUITE DONE! *cough* Are we just going to ignore him in the seat near the end of the table?

  • *everyone looks to said seat*

  • Hannibal:

    Hello, my name is Hannibal. My show is new. I brought food if anybody would like some? I made it myself.

ucsdhealthsciences: A micrograph by Thomas Deerinck of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at UC San Diego reveals the organization of stained glial cells (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and DNA (yellow) in a section of rat hippocampus. Remembering why we’re so alikeIn 1859, not long before Charles Darwin would publish his seminal On the Origin of Species, the renowned British comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen published a controversial work of his own – an  essay contending that humans should be reclassified as distinct and separate from other primates.Owen was among the scientific greats of his day, a hugely influential figure who was, among other feats, the first to recognize that the fossilized remains being discovered around the world represented a distinct group of prehistoric animals he dubbed “Dinosauria.”In other words, they weren’t just old, dead reptiles.But Owen proved to be wrong-headed about other things, most notably his stubborn opposition to Darwin’s theories about evolution and human origins. In his 1859 paper, Owen argued that modern humans represented a singular species based, in part, upon three ostensibly unique neuroanatomical differences in brain structure with nonhuman primates. In a paper published online this week in PNAS, Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor in the departments of neurosciences, psychiatry and psychology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, and Robert E. Clark, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, recount Owen’s misthinking and go on to explain how memory systems involving the hippocampus are quite similar in form and function in rodents, monkeys and humans.I won’t go into great detail here about Squire’s and Clark’s observations. They tell a great story, including a brief recounting of patient H.M., who suffered from profound amnesia. Their basic point: There are multiple memory systems among animals, but their differences also highlight their similarities. Rodents, monkeys and other non-humans think a lot like us. As for Sir Richard, he met up with Thomas Henry Huxley, one of Darwin’s most ardent advocates, a few years later in a famed debate about evolution in general and his notions of brain structure in particular. This debate is not to be confused with Huxley’s 1860 rhetorical romp with the redoubtable Bishop Wilberforce on the merits of evolutionary theory. But like that debate, Huxley easily rebutted all of Owen’s assertions, noting that his three criteria for human uniqueness (one being the existence of a brain region called the hippocampus minor) were found in all primate species. Indeed, in some species the size of the hippocampus minor was larger than in humans. After Owen’s death in 1892, Huxley reviewed his work, perhaps ungraciously concluding that “hardly any of these speculations and determinations have stood the test of investigation, or, indeed, that any of them were ever widely accepted.”To be fair, Owen did leave a distinguished scientific legacy, not least of which was the founding of the magnificent British Museum of Natural History. It’s just that in terms of brain anatomy and memory, his ruminations are perhaps better forgotten.
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A micrograph by Thomas Deerinck of the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research at UC San Diego reveals the organization of stained glial cells (cyan), neurofilaments (green) and DNA (yellow) in a section of rat hippocampus.

Remembering why we’re so alike

In 1859, not long before Charles Darwin would publish his seminal On the Origin of Species, the renowned British comparative anatomist and paleontologist Sir Richard Owen published a controversial work of his own – an  essay contending that humans should be reclassified as distinct and separate from other primates.

Owen was among the scientific greats of his day, a hugely influential figure who was, among other feats, the first to recognize that the fossilized remains being discovered around the world represented a distinct group of prehistoric animals he dubbed “Dinosauria.”

In other words, they weren’t just old, dead reptiles.

But Owen proved to be wrong-headed about other things, most notably his stubborn opposition to Darwin’s theories about evolution and human origins. In his 1859 paper, Owen argued that modern humans represented a singular species based, in part, upon three ostensibly unique neuroanatomical differences in brain structure with nonhuman primates.

In a paper published online this week in PNAS, Larry R. Squire, PhD, professor in the departments of neurosciences, psychiatry and psychology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Veteran Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, and Robert E. Clark, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry, recount Owen’s misthinking and go on to explain how memory systems involving the hippocampus are quite similar in form and function in rodents, monkeys and humans.

I won’t go into great detail here about Squire’s and Clark’s observations. They tell a great story, including a brief recounting of patient H.M., who suffered from profound amnesia. Their basic point: There are multiple memory systems among animals, but their differences also highlight their similarities. Rodents, monkeys and other non-humans think a lot like us.

As for Sir Richard, he met up with Thomas Henry Huxley, one of Darwin’s most ardent advocates, a few years later in a famed debate about evolution in general and his notions of brain structure in particular. This debate is not to be confused with Huxley’s 1860 rhetorical romp with the redoubtable Bishop Wilberforce on the merits of evolutionary theory. But like that debate, Huxley easily rebutted all of Owen’s assertions, noting that his three criteria for human uniqueness (one being the existence of a brain region called the hippocampus minor) were found in all primate species. Indeed, in some species the size of the hippocampus minor was larger than in humans.

After Owen’s death in 1892, Huxley reviewed his work, perhaps ungraciously concluding that “hardly any of these speculations and determinations have stood the test of investigation, or, indeed, that any of them were ever widely accepted.”

To be fair, Owen did leave a distinguished scientific legacy, not least of which was the founding of the magnificent British Museum of Natural History. It’s just that in terms of brain anatomy and memory, his ruminations are perhaps better forgotten.

hiddlestonsitslikeahohoho:

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samandriel:

if you don’t think history is amusing then you’re wrong because one time 3 different guys declared themselves pope all at once and they all excommunicated each other and it was basically the funniest thing ever

what about that time the Lichtenstein army sent 80 men to Italy to fight and came back with 81  

what about that one mexican president who lasted 45 minutes in office

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