Metcarfre

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)

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nerdboyfriend:

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I totally forget the artist’s name, but I love this painting.

Edit; Christina’s World, by Andrew Wyeth. Thanks to Alex. https://twitter.com/#!/Proprietous

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vanillajester:

Metcarfre. A genius biochemist, he made millions consulting for the Superhero Organisation Association working to identify the many chemical and biological agents, compounds and molecules that get brought in or used on the heroes.

He became unsatisfied with the passive approach to solving problems and, using his knowledge and skills, he concocted a draught which would cause his muscle and bone tissue to become much, much stronger.

It was a resounding success, and it - in combination with greedy corporate entities - revealed that Metcarfre actually possesses a superpower; he willallwaysretain his full faculties and personality. The human test subjects which the concoction was tested on turned into wild, raving monsters. Metcarfre’s first test as a hero was subduing these unfortunates until the effects of the compound wore off - about three hours.

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I have no idea whether I have the cut and hang of the suit right on the hulked out version since I have no reference images for that kind of thing. I just had to guess.

I was also getting a bit tired of drawing by the time I got to it, so it probably doesn’t look so great, at least when compared with the “normal” Met on the left. Oh well.

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putthison:

According to CNN, every cardigan Mr. Rogers wore on the show had been hand knit by his mother. 

Just another reason why Mr. Rogers is cooler than you.