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The world needs more Randall Newman.

Only about 50 more years to master it.

If you had inside knowledge of an investment that you thought would be worth more six months from now, why would you be selling a large chunk of your stake in it this week?

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John Shinal of MarketWatch, commenting on the fact that Facebook insiders are selling a large portion of their shares.

did we just become best friends yep

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The U.S. Geological Survey is having a Spring Mega Sale from now until June 4th, 2012. Over 60,000 maps are available for just $1 each. Shipping is just $5 for up to 25 maps. The website is pretty terrible to go through, but the selection is huge. Most maps don’t have a preview so you might have to just make a leap of faith based on the title and vague description. For a buck, though, isn’t it worth the excitement and suprise?http://www.store.usgs.gov/

The U.S. Geological Survey is having a Spring Mega Sale from now until June 4th, 2012. Over 60,000 maps are available for just $1 each. Shipping is just $5 for up to 25 maps. The website is pretty terrible to go through, but the selection is huge. Most maps don’t have a preview so you might have to just make a leap of faith based on the title and vague description. For a buck, though, isn’t it worth the excitement and suprise?

http://www.store.usgs.gov/

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) Farmer’s Market Greatest Hits

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)

Farmer’s Market Greatest Hits

Homebrew Safety Tip

Starsan concentrate has a flashpoint of 121F. Don’t leave it in your vehicle!

Bruce Springsteen - I’m On Fire.

Classic.

unepetitesouris asked: this isnt a spambot blog is it?

Of course not. Is it that disorganized?