physiology and pharmacology experiments
in virtual laboratories
almost like in the real world
- Perfect for online teaching and remote learning -
Curatorial Ethics and Completeness “Complete” sets a high bar. A collector must make choices: which versions count as canonical — single edits, album masters, radio mixes, or rare live takes? Are remastered versions acceptable, or should the original master be preserved even if it sounds dated? FLAC’s archival promise helps, but curators still decide what completeness looks like. A truly comprehensive Kuschelrock set would include alternate mixes, session outtakes, and liner notes — the context that makes music scholarship meaningful alongside casual listening.
Listening as Time Travel A complete collection in lossless format invites a particular mode of listening: not background noise, but attentive immersion. You can lean into details you might otherwise miss — the breath between lines, the tiny pitch inflection that conveys the entire lyric’s meaning, the scrape of a bow on a string section. That kind of attention turns listening into time travel. A song about a failed romance becomes a portal to the bedroom where you first heard it; a cover version becomes a detour into an alternate present where the interpretation changed everything.
There’s something comforting about the idea of a “complete collection” — as if someone, somewhere, sat down with a clear mission: to curate, preserve, and present a body of music in its fullest, most resonant form. The phrase “Kuschelrock Complete FLAC Collection 38” immediately conjures two overlapping worlds: one of soft-rock nostalgia and sentimental pop balladry, and another of audiophile rigor — FLAC files promising lossless fidelity. For anyone who grew up with late-night slow dances, mixtapes labeled “for you,” or the radio station that played amorous slow-burns between talk shows, this collection name glows like a warm lamp in a familiar living room.
Why FLAC Matters Labeling the set “Complete FLAC Collection” signals a promise of sonic integrity. FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) preserves every bit of the original studio master, unlike lossy formats such as MP3. For listeners who care about the shimmer of a hi-hat, the room ambience around a vocal take, or the warmth of an analog piano, FLAC keeps those details intact. In the context of Kuschelrock, where subtle timbral cues and emotional nuance are everything, lossless files can transform a fuzzy recollection into a vivid present-tense experience. FLAC allows nostalgia to sound like it’s happening right now.
running on all Windows platforms,
from Win 7 to Win 11, 32 bit as well as 64 bit versions
without any specific requirements (see Technical Specifications)
including platform-independent Online Versions
for experiments via the Virtual Physiology server
existing so far for SimHeart and SimVessel
with beta-versions of SimMuscle and SimNeuron
SimHeart offers a virtual laboratory for recordings of heart contractions in the Langendorff set-up in response on the most relevant transmitters and drugs, including a drug laboratory for the adjustment of the appropriate solutions.
SimVessel offers a virtual laboratory for the examination of smooth muscle contractions of vessels and the intestine.
The experiments can be done with muscle stripes, placed in an organ bath to which physiologically relevant signal substances and widely used drugs can be added. Preparing the appropriate dilutions can be trained, as in SimHeart, in a drug laboratory.
The virtual “SimMuscle” laboratory contains two nerve-muscle preparations and all the apparatus that you will need for experimentation in a simplified but quite realistic form.
When entering the lab you first need to switch on all the devices (POWER buttons). Then drag one of two already prepared nerve-muscle preparations from the Petri-dish to hang it in the suspension apparatus. This includes a mechano-electrical converter transforming changes of either the muscle force or muscle length, selectable by a toggle switch, into an electric potential. You can pre-stretch the muscle hanging one or more weights in the loop at which the muscle is fixed.
Muscle contractions are induced by current pulses delivered from a stimulation apparatus to the electrodes on which the nerve is placed. Stimuli as well as muscle contractions are displayed on a dual beam storage oscilloscope, appropriately displayed with accordingly adjusted voltage amplification and time base (via the rotary switches) and zero lines. Single or double pulses as well as trains of stimuli of selectable amplitude and intervals can be applied.
The example shows muscle contractions, here changes of the muscle length, in response to different trains of voltage pulses inducing isolated twitches, incomplete and complete tetanic contractions depending on the intervals in which the pulses are applied.
Curatorial Ethics and Completeness “Complete” sets a high bar. A collector must make choices: which versions count as canonical — single edits, album masters, radio mixes, or rare live takes? Are remastered versions acceptable, or should the original master be preserved even if it sounds dated? FLAC’s archival promise helps, but curators still decide what completeness looks like. A truly comprehensive Kuschelrock set would include alternate mixes, session outtakes, and liner notes — the context that makes music scholarship meaningful alongside casual listening.
Listening as Time Travel A complete collection in lossless format invites a particular mode of listening: not background noise, but attentive immersion. You can lean into details you might otherwise miss — the breath between lines, the tiny pitch inflection that conveys the entire lyric’s meaning, the scrape of a bow on a string section. That kind of attention turns listening into time travel. A song about a failed romance becomes a portal to the bedroom where you first heard it; a cover version becomes a detour into an alternate present where the interpretation changed everything.
There’s something comforting about the idea of a “complete collection” — as if someone, somewhere, sat down with a clear mission: to curate, preserve, and present a body of music in its fullest, most resonant form. The phrase “Kuschelrock Complete FLAC Collection 38” immediately conjures two overlapping worlds: one of soft-rock nostalgia and sentimental pop balladry, and another of audiophile rigor — FLAC files promising lossless fidelity. For anyone who grew up with late-night slow dances, mixtapes labeled “for you,” or the radio station that played amorous slow-burns between talk shows, this collection name glows like a warm lamp in a familiar living room.
Why FLAC Matters Labeling the set “Complete FLAC Collection” signals a promise of sonic integrity. FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) preserves every bit of the original studio master, unlike lossy formats such as MP3. For listeners who care about the shimmer of a hi-hat, the room ambience around a vocal take, or the warmth of an analog piano, FLAC keeps those details intact. In the context of Kuschelrock, where subtle timbral cues and emotional nuance are everything, lossless files can transform a fuzzy recollection into a vivid present-tense experience. FLAC allows nostalgia to sound like it’s happening right now.
SimNeuron offers virtual laboratories for voltage- and current-clamp experiments in an easy to overlook lab design
for details see Tutorial and Protocol form
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In fully licensed versions there is the possibility to select to which specific features of the program the students shall have access. This can be done in so-called pre-settings window which you can open from the labs via the SETTINGS button in the switch bank. In demo versions the pre-settings are fixed with most functions enabled. FLAC’s archival promise helps, but curators still decide
