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Believe it or not

Robert Leroy Ripley

Phraseologism: Believe it or not.

Meaning: About a prelude, an introduction to a story about something incredible.

Origin: From English: "Believe It or Not". The expression became popular as the name of the famous collection (first issue - 1928) of all kinds of curious cases, which was compiled by the American journalist Robert Leroy Ripley (1893-1949). Prior to the publication of this book, R. Ripley led (since 1918) a special department of curiosities in the American newspaper The New York Globe. He also did the illustrations for this section.

Random phraseology:

From here we will threaten the Swede.

Meaning:

Here we will begin decisive action, a fight with someone (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

From the introduction to the poem "The Bronze Horseman" (1833) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837).

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In mice on a fatty diet, the excitability of hippocampal neurons decreased - and the hippocampus, as we know, is one of the main memory centers, in particular, memory is consolidated in it, its transformation from short-term to long-term.

Based on the state of neurons that began to work worse, one would expect mice to have worse cognitive abilities. To test this, rodents were placed in a complex toy box, and after the mice got used to the arrangement of objects, one of the toys was placed in a new place. Those of the animals that ate normally quickly learned the new location of objects, but those that were kept on fatty food had difficulty remembering where the familiar thing was now. In other words, memory - at least that part of it that is responsible for orientation in space - having received an excess of fat, really failed. A year later, the learning ability returned to normal, although changes in neurons persisted (probably, some compensatory mechanisms worked).

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