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THE BEST NEUROSCIENCE STUDY GUIDE EVER
(BECAUSE IT HAS CATS)














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Title: Sparkling letters that read "THE BEST NEUROSCIENCE STUDY GUIDE EVER
(BECAUSE IT HAS CATS)"

Image: A small orange kitten peering up on a white background.
Text: You're pretty amazing, if you think about it. See, everything that happens in your body is controlled by these tiny things called neurons.

Image: A huge tabby cat being held by a girl. And I do mean huge! It's almost the size of a bob cat!
Text: No, tinier.

Image: A photoshopped image of a kitten sitting in the palm of someone's hand. It's probably about four inches long.
Text: Even tinier.

Image: Another photoshop of a REALLY tiny kitten, barely bigger than a thumbnail, sitting between the fingers of someone's hand.
Text: Close enough!

Image: A grey tabby kitten staring at a glass of milk.
Text: These super useful chemicals called neurotransmitters are made in your neurons.

Image: A kitten looking very confused, with the text "WHUT" written on it.
Text: They pop into existence, made by these things called enzymes. (Don't worry, you're not gonna get tested.)

Image: A mother Siamese cat sitting in a basket with a litter of kittens.
Text: You can sorta think of enzymes like the neurotransmitters' moms, if you want! XD

Image: An orange tabby kitten chewing on the rim of a basket.
Text: After they're made, they're packed into these little things called vesicles.

Image: An orange tabby curled up in a tiny white box.
Text: Almost.

Image: A cat face peering out of a narrow bag. It looks like a kitten spring roll!
Text: Not quite.

Image: Two kittens, one grey and one brown, nestled in tea cups.
Text: That'll do.

Image: A big furry ragdoll cat sitting on a keyboard in outer space
Text: So these little neurotransmitter vesicles sort of float around in their neurons until...

Image: A calico cat springing into the air. There are yellow stars all over the next three images.
Text: GURGLE!

Image: An orange kitten leaping in the air.
Text: WHOOSH!

Image: A jumping cat with lightning coming out of its paws.
Text: ZAP!

Image: A kitten bounding happily through a bright green field.
Text: A tiny little shock called an action potential pushes the neurotransmitters out of their vesicles and...they're free!

Image: A person grabbing a grey tabby kitten by the scruff of its next. The kitty looks annoyed!
Text: ...Almost.

Image: A white kitten sitting in a person's lap. It's sitting human-style and looking very pleased with itself.
Text: Lots of the time, they hook onto other neurons at cozy little places called post-synaptic receptors.

Image: A white kitting laying on its back across a computer keyboard keyboard.
Text: Sometimes, they hang around in their home neuron on things called auto-receptors and stop others from getting out of the neuron.

Image: A furry cat but and tail walking through a cat door.
Text: Eventually, most neurotransmitters go back to their home neuron.

Image: A mother tabby cat wth a grey kitten in her mouth.
Text: And sometimes enzymes come back around and scoop them up.

Image: A fuzzy little kitten sitting at the bottom of a stairway, looking around the corner very curiously.
Text: But not before that little spark, that action potential, has done something.

Image: A black and white tuxedo cat sitting a a cat-sized computer, using a cat-sized mouse.
Text: Maybe it helped you do some math!

Image: A calico cat looking very silly as he's about to sneeze.
Text: Or sneeze!

Image: A calico cat looking very happy as he chomps on a cob of corn.
Text: Or taste a corn!

Image: A tiny orange kitten sitting in a cat bed, with a kitty smile on his face.
Text: Or smile.

Image: A mother cat laying with a kitten. They look like they're hugging!
Text: We actually really hope you smiled.

Image: A bunch of orange firework flares forming the face of a cat on a sidewalk at night.
Text: And in each moment you're alive, there are like kajillion of these things sparking through your body, firing away with ideas and memories and emotions, like some crazy beautiful fireworks in a summer sky.

Image: A grey kitten snuggling with a yellow lab dog.
Text: You're pretty amazing, if you think about it.



This week, I've worked with one Mr. [livejournal.com profile] alephz who has written a stirring and basically awesome ode to SCIENCE! right here!

Aaaand many many special thanks go out to [livejournal.com profile] zia_narratora, without whom this entry wouldn't have even been possible! ♥

[identity profile] ohstarling.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, that was the most adorable educational thing I've ever seen! Reminds me of this, but way more incorporated! :D

[identity profile] azelmaroark.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
ROFL I WANT TO SHOW THIS TO MY ELECTROPHYS PROFS SO BAD IT WOULD MAKE THEIR LIVES AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Epic. Win.

[identity profile] beautyofgrey.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
SQUEE! I agree that it is the most adorable educational thing that I have ever seen!!!

[identity profile] liret.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
OMG. You need to publish a book explaining complicated scientific concepts with kittens.

[identity profile] cacophonesque.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
I love you Cat! This is awesome and inspirational and science is so frakking cool!

[identity profile] rowena742.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
Dude. Can you do kitty economics next?

[identity profile] dharmavati.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
OMG THIS WAS THE CUTEST. I want to snuggle with this post.

[identity profile] kandigurl.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
SO ADORABLE. I still have no idea what's going on, because I'm bad at science, but ZOMG KITTIES.
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[personal profile] wendelah1 2010-02-09 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
This is so wonderful!

[identity profile] drippedonpaper.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I LOVE IT! And science is usually hard for me to understand.

SOOO creative!:)

I love the ones in the teacups best:)

[identity profile] pixie117.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
That was adorable!!! I loved it! I simply adore cats, so you won me over with the pictures alone, but your commentary was awesome!

[identity profile] krysti-ryou.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
OH MY GOODNESS, CAT. THIS IS GORGEOUS. You outdid yourself, with both the idea/concept and the way you pulled off the words with the appropriate images. This is one of my favorites, because of the way you tied it all together in the end with such a beautiful message.

I absolutely love how you used the words with the pictures. The final touch is the last picture, but my favorite part has to be where you use a picture without kittens.

with ideas and memories and emotions,
like some crazy beautiful fireworks in a summer sky


That is so wonderful, and I think this post is not only cute and adorable, but that it also will remind everyone who sees it that each one of us is pretty amazing, if you and I and everyone else just takes the time to really think about it. ♥

[identity profile] malruniel11.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
totally amazing and cutes! Squeegasm!

[identity profile] kutiechick.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 06:41 am (UTC)(link)
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMG ---------- cutest thing ever! I'm so glad you were able to get this post in on time. Super duper cute, Cat!!!!! <3333

[identity profile] comedychick.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
So cute! Whoever knew science could be so cute? XD

[identity profile] joeymichaels.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
Haha! I would like to link this to a few outside of LJI places if that is ok with you! Awesomeness!

[identity profile] tamaraland.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
I don't even like cats and I'm voting for this!

[identity profile] rattsu.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
.... HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO MAKE YOUR ENTRIES EVEN MORE ADORABLE?

This I will never know. I squeed. Loudly.

[identity profile] baxaphobia.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll come back to see if there is a description.

[identity profile] oberonia.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 12:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! *laugh*

[identity profile] myscribbles.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely wonderful, this entry, in fact you whole journal gave me a smile today

[identity profile] chocolatrouge.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
This is by far the CUTEST, most ADORABLE study guide I have ever encountered. :) ♥ ♥ ♥ Thanks to Zia Narratora!

[identity profile] mstrobel.livejournal.com 2010-02-09 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the best ever! And I actually learned something I think XD

The vesicle kitties are the CUTEST. The second one reminds me of my cat. Complete with box XD

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