{"id":7710,"date":"2010-02-04T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/leukomotion-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:11:58","slug":"leukomotion-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/leukomotion-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Leukomotion | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has already made the rounds of the blogoverse, but it&rsquo;s so cool: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biochemweb.org\/neutrophil.shtml\">video of a leukocyte chasing down and eating a bacterium<\/a>.<\/p><p>I know it&rsquo;s just biochemicals in action, a billion years of evolution writ small. But it&rsquo;s still creepy and amazing. <\/p><p>And I learned a new word: this type of white blood cell is called a polymorphonuclear leukocyte, or, for short&hellip; a <em><strong>neutrophil<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p><p>That is <em>so<\/em> cool! And it will be my new superhero name.<\/p><blockquote><p> <em> In brightest day, in blackest night,<br> No bacterium shall escape my sight<br> Let those who worship microscopic evil,<br> Beware my power&hellip; NEUTROPHIL!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote><p>Hmm, that needs work. But not now, for there are microorganisms to ingest! Away!<\/p><p><em>Tip o&rsquo; the pseudopod to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/insolence\/2010\/02\/the_immune_system_in_action.php\">Orac<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nlul2lKWdkIGq2mtqM9ATBkEO8U\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/016b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/nlul2lKWdkIGq2mtqM9ATBkEO8U\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/016b3_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/016b3_bsu-zUg5nhA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/016b3_BOLgXeWms6A\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has already made the rounds of the blogoverse, but it&rsquo;s so cool: video of a leukocyte chasing down and eating a bacterium.I know it&rsquo;s just biochemicals in action, a billion years of evolution writ small. But it&rsquo;s still creepy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/leukomotion-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}