5/17 18:02 - lowrayne - 5,023 notes
Hi, I'm Candace and I'm worthless.
I post about tons of things, but expect tv show stuff, pro-liberal things, art and probably a buncha other stuff I'm too lazy to think of.
Oh and I absolutely adore people who are nice to other people.
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Cement Dragon
cement, fiberglass, ceramic, cotton, model flies
510 L x 220 W x 210 H cmGonna reblob every time
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5/16 18:04 - i-wanna-i-wanna-i-wanna - 2,664 notes
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)
5/16 15:55 - safeatlastfromshialebeouf - 5,765 notes
"As an atheist, I see nothing “wrong” in believing in a god. I don’t think there is a god, but belief in him does no harm. If it helps you in any way, then that’s fine with me. It’s when belief starts infringing on other people’s rights when it worries me. I would never deny your right to believe in a god. I would just rather you didn’t kill people who believe in a different god, say. Or stone someone to death because your rulebook says their sexuality is immoral. It’s strange that anyone who believes that an all-powerful all-knowing, omniscient power responsible for everything that happens, would also want to judge and punish people for what they are."
- Ricky Gervais (via dawkinshawkingdarwin)
5/16 14:43 - illegaluseofbuckets - 910 notes
Quick civics lesson:
Freedom of speech is: the government will never (lol) create a law impugning your right to say whatever you want as long as it doesn’t create an immediate risk of harm for others.
Freedom of speech is not: you can say whatever you want and no one is allowed to get offended or call you out for being a jackass.
5/16 11:47 - transexualpervert - 5,295 notes
I HAD THIS
I had this too! Man, this was my favorite playset because of the husky’s magnetic nose! But I also liked the playset that had the penguin… it would bob up and down XD <3
i forgot that the old littlest petshop animals were approximately ten trillion times cuter than the present series of google-eyed vaguely anime weirdoes
THIS WAS MY FAVOURITE SET KSDJFHDJFHSDKFHSDJFHJh
5/13 16:20 - albinwonderland - 158 notes
