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“Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:01:45 +0200

“Stay glad. Keep hoping machine running. Love everybody. Make up your mind.”

Woody Guthrie’s heartwarming 1942 New Year’s Resolution list

xmrxcx: “Ophelia” by Idiots

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:09:06 +0200

xmrxcx:

“Ophelia” by Idiots

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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:54:31 +0300

danielleosaurus-rex: Cards Against Humanity is a party game...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:33:13 +0300

danielleosaurus-rex:

Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.

Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.

And it is distributed under a Creative Commons license, meaning it is not only free to play, but remixing, and changing the game are more than just encouraged.

The official hard copy has been sold out for a while now, but a PDF of all the cards, and instructions distributed by the creators for making your own deck can be found here.

You’re welcome, and enjoy!

asolitarycomfort: Egon Schiele “Standing Woman In Red”

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:13:53 +0300

asolitarycomfort:

Egon Schiele “Standing Woman In Red”

weseethesethings: Old Beagles.

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:07:41 +0300

weseethesethings:

Old Beagles.

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:03:30 +0300

theuniblog: npr: Ooooo. jtotheizzoe: Genetics of the...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:52:55 +0300

theuniblog:

npr:

Ooooo.

jtotheizzoe:

Genetics of the Beautiful “Glass Gem” Corn

Corn gone viral? You’re looking at an ear of a corn variety called “Glass Gem”, grown by Greg Schoen of Seeds Trust. This is real corn! How does it grow this way?

First you have to understand a few things about corn. Each corn kernel is actually a sort of unique plant. A corn plant’s male parts (the “tassels”) sit at the top of the stalk, and drop pollen downward. Unfertilized ears (the female parts) catch the pollen with the sticky ends of their corn silks. Each corn silk (I hate when that gets in my teeth) grabs a pollen grain, shuttles it allllllll the way down inside the ear, eventually creating one kernel for each pollen-silk-ovum combination. It’s one of the more interesting and inefficient breeding schemes I know of.

If you’ve taken genetics, you know that the parents’ genes will combine by chance, leading to certain ratios of inheritance in the offspring. This is the basis of Mendelian genetics (great Khan Academy video here).

With corn, we’ve simply carefully bred all the interestingness out of them. Native Americans were used to multi-colored corn, because corn plants held many varieties of color genes that could combine at random. Now all we are left with are one-color clones.

This “Glass Gem” corn is the other extreme of the spectrum, a combination of corn color hybrid genes and random pollination. It’s almost too pretty to eat!

(via Discover Magazine)

I am going to eat the hell out of this corn.