Common Nonsense

mediocrememory:

missybees:

So my heart belongs to Fenris?

I’m going with it. Yup.

Considering I just finished DA2 and my Hawke rode off into the sunset with Fenris … I can live with this.

iamhazleweatherfield:

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)

One of many reasons I love genetics.

After complaining the other night about being unable to get this part of the game to work correctly, I received some notes offering aid. Upon telling my best friend this, “She is mine to dictate” were her exact words.

Frankly, that “dictate” panel probably sums up our entire friendship, and probably every friendship I have had or will have.

Sort of a companion to this one, since I promised her a doodle.

I also originally wrote this whole thing in gentleman’s English for some reason, but it was too wordy, so I rewrote it. You can still look at it, though.

thepaperplaneofexistence:

fuzzyblankets:

beastmaster-noel:

heiligeharmonie:

letsfabulousmax:

eisernedrossel:

watchingfromshadows:

millionairephilanthropist:

thethunderer:

Nom, Kiss Kick… yes.

Suicide, hate, flesh.

Um..

Trutysin. Norligsi. Malice.

Secret, malice, rage.

lust, secret, malice. okay. i don’t agree I:

Tease, secret, kiss.
Wat. 

Malice, secret, enigma

Suicide, scum, sin

; -; okay

Fool, flesh, men.

…well then.

Flesh, men, malice.

What.

I want none of these things.

(Source: yuppipuppy)