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An Australian woman who totally transformed herself from a ‘innocent’ girl next door to a heavily tattooed adult model has revealed how her extreme ink and body modifications have changed her life. Amber Luke, 27, also known as ‘Dragon Girl’, has spent $250,000 on tattoos, piercings and surgery to achieve the look she wants – but says she faces discrimination in public and at work as a result. He told Brisbane radio show Robin, Terry & Kip last week that having 600 tattoos, which cover 99 percent of his body, sometimes makes his daily life challenging. A woman who transformed herself from a ‘innocent’ girl next door to a heavily tattooed adult model has revealed how her extreme ink and body modifications have changed her life Amber Luke, 27, is pictured here before she spent $250,000 on tattoos, piercings and surgery to become the ‘Dragon Girl’. She said she faced discrimination in public and at work because of her ...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Insectivorous plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants developed the ability to capture and consume live prey remains largely a mystery. Now, Salk scientists, along with collaborators from the University of Washington at St. Louis, has investigated the molecular basis of plant carnivores and found evidence that it evolved from mechanisms that plants use to defend themselves. Research published on July 11, 2022, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ), detailing how calcium molecules move dynamically within cells in the leaves of carnivorous plants in response to touch from live prey. Fluctuations in calcium cause leaf movement to capture prey, possibly through increased production of defense hormones. The findings broaden scientists’ understanding of how plants interact with their environment. “If we can learn more about how plants such as these...

But there’s an equal, if not better, argument for enjoying your breakfast and early dinner. Eat by design Humans were created to be active and eat in the light and rest and fast in the dark. As the sun goes down, our melatonin rises, usually peaking a few hours before bedtime. “This is a signal for our bodies to sleep and every time someone eats when melatonin is high, you tend to see worse metabolic reactions,” explains Sean Cain, an expert on circadian rhythms from Monash University. “This is part of the reason why there is more metabolic disease in shift workers who eat more at night and less during the day… We shouldn’t eat when we have high melatonin levels.” Heilbronn adds that our bodies are better equipped to metabolize food in the morning. “If you eat at 7 in the morning, the pancreas secretes more insulin, the cells are better able to take up glucose, you have a smaller glucose response than eating the exact same food at 7 p.m....

Our visual perception of the world is often considered relatively stable. However, like all of our cognitive functions, visual processing is shaped by our experiences. During development and adulthood, learning can change visual perception. For example, enhanced visual discrimination of the same pattern is a learned skill that is essential for reading. In a new research study published in Current Biology, scientists have now discovered the neural changes that occur during learning to increase discrimination of closely related visual images. This study, led by first author Dr. Joseph Schumacher and senior author Dr. David Fitzpatrick at Florida’s Max Planck Institute of Neuroscience, sets out a transformative approach to studying perceptual learning in the brain. The researchers imaged the activity of a large number of single neurons over days to track changes that occur when the visual discrimination task is studied, performing these experiments in a new animal model, the t...

In Deuxmoi’s latest Instagram Q&A, he made people spill tea about a bunch of abusive celebrities and their intel SPICYYYYY. After his first series of IG Stories, more and more people are coming out of the woods with stories to share. Let’s investigate them, shall we? In the early set of IG Stories, many people claimed the actor John Krasinski is “cock.” Another restaurant worker backed this up, telling Deux: “He’s a total jerk. I worked at Fred Segal’s at Melrose for many years and can count on two hands how many celebrities are abusive. He’s at the top of the list.” They went on to rant about other abusive celebs including (without context) Christina Aguilera , Reese Witherspoon , Emma Roberts and Vince Vaughn . Why doesn’t anything surprise me…? Original Insta Stories starts with great reviews for internet queens Ziwe . A student of Deux asks if Ziwe is “as cool as he looks”, since Deux recently sat down with him fo...