{"id":5437,"date":"2024-05-04T15:08:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T19:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=5437"},"modified":"2024-05-04T15:08:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T19:08:04","slug":"milk-and-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/milk-and-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk and Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"884\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1-1024x884.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5439\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1-1024x884.png 1024w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1-300x259.png 300w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1-768x663.png 768w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1.png 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Found in some old notes of mine. Presented here without references or elaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brain    &#8212;   vs.  &#8212;  half-and-half <\/strong><em>(mix of cream and milk)<\/em><strong><br><\/strong>78% water &#8212; 79% water<br>12% lipids &#8212; 12% lipids<br>1% carbs &#8212; 4% carbs<br>8% proteins &#8212; 3% proteins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-722x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5438\" style=\"width:432px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-722x1024.png 722w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-212x300.png 212w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image.png 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As for brain:<br><\/em>Mean free path: ~100 microns<br>Anisotropy factor: ~0.9 (drops lower at wavelengths > 800 nm)<br>Transport mean free path: ~1 mm<br>I don&#8217;t have notes on how this compares to half-and-half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-1.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found in some old notes of mine. Presented here without references or elaboration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brain    &#8212;   vs.  &#8212;  half-and-half <\/strong><em>(mix of cream and milk)<\/em><strong><br \/><\/strong>78% water &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/milk-and-brain\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5437\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}