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currentsinbiology
currentsinbiology

What Scallops’ Many Eyes Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Vision 

The word “scallop” usually evokes a juicy, round adductor muscle—a seafood delicacy. So it isn’t widely known that scallops have up to 200 tiny eyes along the edge of the mantle lining their shells. The complexities of these mollusk eyes are still being unveiled. A new study published in Current Biology reveals that scallop eyes have pupils that dilate and contract in response to light, making them far more dynamic than previously believed.

Source: smithsonianmag.com
thecraftychemist
lethargicactionhero: “ erykahisnotokay: “ runawayhurricane: “ totalharmonycycle: “ southernrepublicangirl: “Ah the free market at work. (Similar to when I went to CVS to pickup a 90$ prescription and they had their own generic version for...
southernrepublicangirl

Ah the free market at work.
(Similar to when I went to CVS to pickup a 90$ prescription and they had their own generic version for 7.99).

totalharmonycycle

This is important!
Tell your Friends.

runawayhurricane

I can’t believe some insurances quit covering them 😐

erykahisnotokay

From Slate:

The generic Adrenaclick will cost $109.99 for two doses, compared with $649.99 for the same amount of drug in an EpiPen. That’s good news, both for financial and safety reasons: STAT reported last year that some parents and institutions had begun filling up syringes with epinephrine as a cost-cutting measure, a DIY solution that could pose great risk to the children who may have eventually needed injections. A more affordable alternative will help ensure safer epinephrine injections.

That’s assuming, though, that the people who need these devices know exactly what to ask for when they’re sitting in their doctors’ offices. Otherwise, they’ll still be stuck with the overpriced product. Here’s why: The mechanism by which Adrenaclick injects the drug is slightly different from EpiPen’s mechanism, so the Food and Drug Administration has ruled that the two are not therapeutically equivalent. That distinction is important because it means a prescription for an EpiPen cannot be filled with Adrenaclick. If you want the cheaper option, you have to have an Adrenaclick prescription.

You must ask your doctor for an Adrenaclick prescription! 

I also found a coupon from Impax on 0.15mg and 0.3mg epinephrine injection, USP auto-injectors, which appear to be the generic version of Adrenaclick; these coupons cover up to $100 per pack for 3 packs of these injectors (6 total injectors).

Some customers may be automatically eligible for $100 off the retail price thus only paying $10 for a pack, but this may be good backup for those who for whatever reason do not meet those requirements.

lethargicactionhero

Pass this information on, potentially save a life.

strange-aeons
overanalyticalqueer

so hey fun fact for anyone who wants queer history trivia: the first disco in Seattle was opened in 1973 and was a gay bar called “shelly’s leg” and it was named after a dancer named shelly who lost her leg in a confetti cannon accident and used the insurance/lawsuit settlement money to open a gay disco.

konahart

a) This is such a fantastic story that I wouldn’t care if it were made up, except that

b) upon further research, it does appear to be true. 

happy-packrat

Queerstory is a riot

botanyshitposts
botanyshitposts

ive just received news from the front lines of lichen studies that there is a possible fourth symbiont afoot……..im still reading the paper but i will report back

forest--studies

What paper?! (Sorry for the ! But I’m super excited so I’m not really sorry)

botanyshitposts

if anybody wants to go right to the source it’s called “Two Basidiomycete Fungi in the Cortex of Wolf Lichens” by Tuovinen et al! idk if the paper itself is behind a paywall (i have the luxury of having access through my uni) but here’s the (public) science daily article reporting on it!

botanyshitposts

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update: i have read the paper and also come to my own conclusions

happy-packrat

Lichens have me shook honestly

currentsinbiology
currentsinbiology

Intense winds cause Quebec forest to “breathe”

Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 1:48 PM - A video taken in Sacre-Coeur, Quebec Tuesday, has captured Weather Network viewer’s attention. In it, strong winds push and pull at the forest floor, making it look like it’s ‘breathing’.“During a rain and windstorm event the ground becomes saturated, 'loosening’ the soil’s cohesion with the roots as the wind is blowing on a tree’s crown,” he said.

“The wind is trying to 'push’ the trees over, and as the force is transferred to the roots, the ground begins to 'heave’. If the winds were strong enough and lasted long enough more roots would start to break and eventually some of the trees would topple.”

Source: youtube.com