Comments on: Underappreciated Star-Shaped Brain Cells May Help Us Breathe http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Albert Bakker http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20685 Albert Bakker Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:43:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20685 #5 - No sir/ ma'am, I would not agree. And even though it is completely irrelevant to the subject here, which is about new scientific discoveries (not philosophies) about glia I think your proclamations about dark matter are even more funny than over-reaching. #5 – No sir/ ma’am, I would not agree. And even though it is completely irrelevant to the subject here, which is about new scientific discoveries (not philosophies) about glia I think your proclamations about dark matter are even more funny than over-reaching.

]]> By: MT-LA http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20684 MT-LA Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:19:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20684 Junk DNA turns out not to be junk...and now the brain's "scaffolding" turns out to be integral to the neural network. Next you're going to tell me that physicists could drop the idea of dark matter if they stopped rounding off their calculations. (Really? you're explanation for why you're measurements don't add up is because there is some invisible matter than you can't prove exists? That's more plausible than "you're wrong"?) There is nothing "insignificant" in this world. Everything has a place, and everything has a purpose. And I would call this philosophy an eastern-type philosophy, Mr. Bakker. Western philosophies (including scientific schools of thought) tend to be a little more over-reaching in their assumptions, wouldn't you agree? Junk DNA turns out not to be junk…and now the brain’s “scaffolding” turns out to be integral to the neural network. Next you’re going to tell me that physicists could drop the idea of dark matter if they stopped rounding off their calculations. (Really? you’re explanation for why you’re measurements don’t add up is because there is some invisible matter than you can’t prove exists? That’s more plausible than “you’re wrong”?)

There is nothing “insignificant” in this world. Everything has a place, and everything has a purpose.

And I would call this philosophy an eastern-type philosophy, Mr. Bakker. Western philosophies (including scientific schools of thought) tend to be a little more over-reaching in their assumptions, wouldn’t you agree?

]]> By: Albert Bakker http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20683 Albert Bakker Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:30:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20683 #3 - Yes they do. And fruit flies have them too. I would suspect - repeat s u s p e c t - they work basically the same way in fish, because blood acidity as a function of CO2 would have the same effect on calcium concentrations in fish astrocytes and release ATP, but then of course the excited neurons in fish would starting from that level and above effect completely different physiological mechanisms to "normalize" blood acidity. And also #2 western science doesn't exist. There is only one kind of science, which is science. #3 – Yes they do. And fruit flies have them too.

I would suspect – repeat s u s p e c t – they work basically the same way in fish, because blood acidity as a function of CO2 would have the same effect on calcium concentrations in fish astrocytes and release ATP, but then of course the excited neurons in fish would starting from that level and above effect completely different physiological mechanisms to “normalize” blood acidity.

And also #2 western science doesn’t exist. There is only one kind of science, which is science.

]]> By: YouRang http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20682 YouRang Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:28:11 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20682 Hmm, do fish have astrocytes? After all they don't exactly breathe in the sense that our lungs are not related to fish's gills. Hmm, do fish have astrocytes? After all they don’t exactly breathe in the sense that our lungs are not related to fish’s gills.

]]> By: gregorylent http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20681 gregorylent Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:24:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20681 nothing wasted anywhere in this body, or this universe ... wish western science had a bit less hubris nothing wasted anywhere in this body, or this universe … wish western science had a bit less hubris

]]> By: nick http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/07/20/underappreciated-star-shaped-brain-cells-may-help-us-breathe/#comment-20680 nick Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:07:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=17731#comment-20680 I doubt there is much in the brain that does little. There are many secrets waiting to be unlocked within our wetware. I doubt there is much in the brain that does little. There are many secrets waiting to be unlocked within our wetware.

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