The Flames.

What is acromegaly?
Acromegaly is a hormonal disorder that results from too much growth hormone (GH) in the body. The pituitary, a small gland in the brain, makes GH. In acromegaly, the pituitary produces excessive amounts of GH. Usually the excess GH comes from benign, or noncancerous, tumors on the pituitary. These benign tumors are called adenomas.

Shlizerman and his colleagues recorded neural signals coming from monarch antenna nerves, to keep track of the clock information, as well as information coming from the insect’s eyes, to account for sun position.

Then they used that data to create a circuit model to show the neural control mechanisms – for the “clock” and “sun position” – that help the butterfly point itself southwest.

The scientists’ model even accounts for how the butterflies get back on course if they stray.

Somewhere in my upper thirties I was doing an old problem at Carderock and felt a small tear probably at a tendon.
Not so bad as to cause swelling or lasting weakness but it was obviously not nothing.
My body had deteriorated and were I to pretend otherwise
instead of walking and working comfortably into deep old age, I would be plagued by aches, pains, and strange weaknesses.
A Broadway Joe who can barely walk. . . Stan 8/7/11
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/1574691/Climbing-by-not-climbing-a-meditative-TR

there is so much and some of it wisdom, that from rgld's post
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