You can not pay your bills with Holy Water and Hail Mary luck
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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TOUT LE MONDE VEUX ETRE UN CHAT
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exactly how I handled college suches this year
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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)
Brick Biotope: Modular Homes For Urban Wildlife
Brick Biotope is a series of bricks designed specifically to provide a natural living environment for birds within the urban landscape. Inspired by the disappearance of the House Sparrow in the Netherlands, Brick Biotoperesponds to the desire to create hand-made objects in a digital world…Read more here.
Sofia Coppola at the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards
shimmy shimmy yah, shimmy yeah, shimmy yay
Not a single thing to be improved.
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Baby Names: The Latest Partisan Divide? : The Two-Way
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There’s a real difference in the type of names people give their children in red states as opposed to blue states. It’s the opposite of what you might expect.
You know you want to read the rest….
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Seeing-Eye Horses of the Day: Miniature horses are one step closer to being recognized as service animals in Illinois, after the state Senate voted Tuesday to allow them to accompany people with disabilities.
The horses — which range from 24 inches to 34 inches tall and weigh 70 to 100 pounds — are already considered limited-use service animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but it’s a rare occasion to see a disabled person walking with the assistance of an animal other than a dog. Critics say the mandate is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and indeed, a California man filed suit in March claiming a restaurant denied him — and his mini-steed — service.
“I like horses. My daughter likes horses. But even in the Wild West, they put them outside,” said Angelo Amador, vice president of the National Restaurant Association.
According to the Guide Horse Foundation, miniature horses can be useful for people with severe allergies or phobias to dogs, or people who want an animal likely to live longer than a dog. The horses are strong enough to provide support when handlers need to lean on them, and they are not easily distracted by crowds.
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Seeing-Eye Horses of the Day: Miniature horses are one step closer to being recognized as service animals in Illinois, after the state Senate voted Tuesday to allow them to accompany people with disabilities.
The horses — which range from 24 inches to 34 inches tall and weigh 70 to 100 pounds — are already considered limited-use service animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act, but it’s a rare occasion to see a disabled person walking with the assistance of an animal other than a dog. Critics say the mandate is a lawsuit waiting to happen, and indeed, a California man filed suit in March claiming a restaurant denied him — and his mini-steed — service.
“I like horses. My daughter likes horses. But even in the Wild West, they put them outside,” said Angelo Amador, vice president of the National Restaurant Association.
According to the Guide Horse Foundation, miniature horses can be useful for people with severe allergies or phobias to dogs, or people who want an animal likely to live longer than a dog. The horses are strong enough to provide support when handlers need to lean on them, and they are not easily distracted by crowds.
