myfusimotors
Why is a science blog named after a motor neuron?
Fair question. If you landed here expecting car parts or motor repairs, I'm sorry...and also, stay.
You might find something more interesting.
Fusimotor neurons are a type of nerve cell in your body right now, quietly doing one of the most elegant jobs in neuroscience. They don't move your muscles directly. Instead, they adjust the sensitivity of your muscle spindles — the tiny stretch receptors embedded in your muscle fibers. In plain terms: they set the dial on how aware your nervous system is of its own body. They are the hidden calibrators of human movement, and almost nobody knows they exist.
That's exactly why I named this blog after them. The best science isn't always the most famous science. Some of the most fascinating things happening inside the human body — inside your body — are invisible, unnamed, and completely overlooked. This blog exists to change that.
I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules, but not a single one of the cells that compose me knows who I am, or cares...So why should you? Maybe because the story of what we are is more interesting than the story of who we are. That's what this blog is about.
New posts go up every Tuesday and Friday. No newsletters, no algorithms — just good science writing, when you come looking for it. If you're curious about a topic, feel free to reach out. Some of my best posts have started with a reader's question.
Welcome to myfusimotors. The hidden calibrators sent me.
Corina.
Scents of Science 
August 26, 2019 at 6:52 am
Seems like the Universe approves it 😊
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August 26, 2019 at 11:46 am
I am so glad that you’re back on your path. Take care of yourself, Corina. You are making an impact.
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August 26, 2019 at 12:13 pm
That’s great, self is very important. Not sure of your beliefs but believe in God or not, He says to love others as we love ourselves. We can glean from that, we must take care of ourselves if we ever want to be there for others. 🙂
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August 26, 2019 at 7:01 pm
good to know… life is complicated… have been going through a mental turmoil for the last 3+ years… its hard to stay sane.
+ something it might interest you: “It’s beautiful,” Madore said. But, “it contradicts what people have been doing for the last 30 years,” said Madore.
The trouble starts with Edwin Hubble himself. Back in 1929, he noticed that more-distant galaxies were moving away from Earth faster than their closer-in counterparts. He found a linear relationship between the distance an object was from our planet and the speed at which it was receding.
Hubble realized that the universe was expanding, and it seemed to be doing so at a constant rate — hence, the Hubble constant. He measured the value to be about 342,000 miles per hour per million light years (501 km/s/Mpc) — almost 10 times larger than what is currently measured. Over the years, researchers have refined that rate.
Things got weirder in the late 1990s, when two teams of astronomers noticed that distant supernovas were dimmer, and therefore farther away, than expected, said Madore. This indicated that not only was the universe expanding, but it was also accelerating in its expansion. Astronomers named the cause of this mysterious phenomenon dark energy.
https://www.livescience.com/hubble-constant-discrepancy-explained.html
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March 10, 2020 at 5:54 am
Well. Best of luck! And much respect
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