Alvvays - Atop A Cake

Gene That Helps Regulate Sleep Identified

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia. Expression of the gene, neuromedin U (Nmu), also seems to serve as nature’s stimulant–fish lacking the gene take longer to wake up in the morning and are less active during the day.

The research is in Neuron. (full access paywall)

"wir spielen beide dieses Spiel, du mein und ich dein." arghhh.

Küss mich, so absichtsvoll ergeben, wir spielen beide dieses Spiel, du mein und ich dein.

So sind wir für einen Tag und eine Nacht einander: Dämmerung und Schlaf und süßes Sterben.

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the 32-page book connects all of iamamiwhoami’s official lyrics from 2009-2015, telling the audiovisual project’s story chronologically. limited edition signed by Jonna Lee of iamamiwhoami now available from the TWIMC SHOP.

PREORDER here

same.

What use is moonlight? I reach into it, fingers open, and my hand is silvered and blessed, and comes back to me holding nothing.

Margaret Atwood, from “Sumacs,” in Interlunar (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)