Me: WebMD, Why Does My Finger Hurt?

Continuing in the vein of snow leopards being the most extra cats ever, here’s mom Kira being “surprised” by one of her cubs. Sisters Naphisa and Pandora were born at the Stone Zoo on May 6th. Since those videos of big cats “over-reacting” to being pounced by their cubs are so popular, I asked where this behavior comes from - are they really hamming it up, or is it genuine surprise? One of Kira’s zookeepers noted it looks a lot like her normal play behaviors, so there’s a good chance it’s one of her ways of playing with her cubs. Since most play behaviors are crucial to teaching baby animals the skills they’ll need to survive as adults, it makes sense that snow leopard play would include stalking and pouncing! 

Video courtesy of Katie, an educator at Stone Zoo in Stoneham, MA. 

High diabetic: I want to burn the world down genoside run bath in my enemies blood  I am an unholy rage 

Also high diabetic: *falls asleep in laundry basket* uuuugh someone wanna cuddle *is constaly peeing and drinking water* fear me *falls asleep again*

𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕙 🇪🇸

is one of the most commonly spoken languages

it is considered a beautiful language of love 🥰

more opportunities would be open to you

it can help improve your other languages

can help your travel skills in Latin countries 🌍

strengthens your brain 🧠

boosts your memory

keeps your brain healthy

opens you up to a new variety of music, movies, television shows, etc.

lets you conversate with more people 👋

lets you discover new cultures

spanish food is A M A Z I N G 🤤

can help you earn more $$$ in a job

can help you get a job

lets you travel aboard easier for jobs and for school

bc it’s spanish !! 🇲🇽

Finish Your Antibiotics

I’m sorry, this isn’t Jojo at all but I think I’ve had it for today. As a pharmacy tech, I’m tired of hearing “Well, I started to feel better so I didn’t finish them.” I always knew this but now as a Molecular and Cellular Biology major, I not only know why but how. If you’re willing to heed my advice from the title, good; be on your way. If you need to know more, keep reading.

It’s widely known–to some extent–that not completing a regiment of antibiotics can result in resistant bacteria, or even super bacteria.

But in an infection, you already have resistant bacteria lurking. Not taking antibiotics doesn’t literally create resistant bacteria. So how, then, do the antibiotics take care of the resistant ones?

A lot of antibiotics aren’t bacterialcidal: They don’t actually kill them. Many inhibit growth by some mechanism depending if the bacterium is gram negative or gram positive. For example, penicillin inhibits growth by disrupting the formation of a peptidoglycan layer on gram positive bacteria. Others target the LPS layer on gram negative ones. This keeps the non resistant bacteria at bay. So what kills the resistant ones? Your immune system. Antibiotics buy time and energy for your immune system to recognize and destroy the resistant strains. Your immune system is intelligent in that sense and can form antibodies for new illnesses. It’s important to give your immune system this time because bacteria grow, mutate, and transfer genetic material at astonishing rates. If you wanted to look at a microcosm of the mechanics that go into evolution, you’ve got it with bacteria. 

There are three methods aside from binary fission in which they transfer genes (I won’t get into the minutia of the form of informational material): Transformation, transduction and conjugation.

In transformation, a bacterium can pickup lost genes from a ruptured and dead cell.

Transduction is a way to transfer information via a viral vector.

In conjugation, genes are transferred through something called a pilus: It’s a bridge between two cells that pipes a copy of the information from one cell to another receptive cell and is the only method that doesn’t involve killing either cells. Resistant bacteria like to give around that resistance information like they’re burning a CD for their friends.

So please finish your antibiotics if you’ve been given them. It doesn’t matter if you’ve started to feel better or even great. Finish them.

(Hey science people, If I’ve missed anything or even got something wrong, help me out. There’s obviously lengthy stuff I’ve left out but I think I got the basics).

FNS Uta no Haru Matsuri 2016.07.18 - Hey! Say! JUMP  + Kis-My-Ft2

This is kind of blowing my mind

Credit: @moderndaymanifestations

Just Chillin’

I’m still not very clear on how Evie manages to climb up and turn herself around in such a small space. Cat mysteries.

Owner: “How much will this cost?”

Me: “I will get a treatment plan made so you can see everything and what the total cost will be.”

Owner: “Just tell me. Afraid I won’t pay? I want to do what’s best and I don’t want to waste time.”

Me: “A signed treatment plan is our permission slip to proceed, we have everyone sign them. It takes less than 5 minutes.”

Owner: “Jesus. Fine. But can I just have a guess as to the cost?”

Me: “Without the plan I can’t say for sure. I believe about $800 for everything.”

Owner: “Just do it!”

Me: “Here is the plan, please sign in all the highlighted areas. The total is actually going to be $740.”

Owner: “Yes, yes. Please go help my dog. Here it is all signed.”

Owner at the front desk: “OUTRAGEOUS! I had no clue this would be so much! $740 for basically nothing! I won’t pay. Take me to court of you must!”