{"id":688,"date":"2014-05-18T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2014-05-18T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T14:53:02","slug":"insane-in-the-chromatophores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/18\/insane-in-the-chromatophores\/","title":{"rendered":"Insane in the Chromatophores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>aka, &#8220;This is What Happens When a Squid Listens to Cypress Hill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I predict that when we attach your body to these stimuli, your smile muscles will fire.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/48183535\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Insane in the Chromatophores\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode to stimulate the fin nerve. Chromatophores are pigmeted cells that come in 3 colors: Brown, Red, and Yellow. Each chromatophore is lined with up to 16 muscles that contract to reveal their color.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.backyardbrains.com\/2012\/08\/insane-in-the-chromatophores\/\">Here\u2019s more info<\/a>\u00a0on the project. Now excuse me while I try to explain the concept of membranes (and Cypress Hill) to the beguiled Micronaxx.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/48183535\">Vimeo<\/a>] [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2012\/08\/this-is-what-happens-when-a-squid-listens-to-cypress-hill\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>aka, &#8220;This is What Happens When a Squid Listens to Cypress Hill.\u201d I predict that when we attach your body to these stimuli, your smile muscles will fire. The video is a view through an 8x microscope zoomed in on the dorsal side of the caudal fin of the squid. We used a suction electrode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}