LOOOL
I saw this episode just yesterday on our TV (with dub, which was awful but whatever) and I watched it with my mom, and her reaction at the end:
Are they like…together?
:D
THE. FUCKING. NOTES
REBLOGGING AGAIN. I’LL REBLOG WHENEVER IT SHOWS UP ON MY DASH.
(Source: thanhv)
#This moment makes my heart twist into knots and then uncurl into ribbons that loop back together. #Can you imagine being a creature that has so much experience with not feeling anything? #And then suddenly there’s this man—this one person—who makes you feel so many things? #And not just love and caring. But also anger and betrayal and hurt. #And to be so so angry at someone that you hurt them. #While simultaneously loving them so much that you drop the mask the same moment he puts his on. #You’ve both uncovered so many layers. #You’re not sure which ones you used to wear and which ones he’s given you to wear. #Like a borrowed leather jacket. #He asks you to do it. #And you revel in your new habit of not following orders.
(Source: johnwatsn)
npr:
Ooooo.
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)
