My family dead (2009) - Wood, rocks and clay. Second Edition. Ushuaia, Argentina.
Argentinean sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas creates enormous sculptural works that seem like remnants of a science fiction movie set, or bizarre moments from a surreal dream. | via:
Where there’s a will there’s a whale. -Franksforeverything
Wes Anderson’s latest film, Moonrise Kingdom, is now out in theaters! New York and Los Angeles saw their debuts last week, and nationwide roll out is just around the corner.
San Francisco will see the debut of the film on Thursday, May 31st at the Metreon, help us spread the word and enter our official contest for a Moonrise Kingdom gift pack!
To enter, simply reblog this post on Tumblr for your chance to win an official Moonrise Kingdom gift pack, which includes shirts, patches, a canteen and a cooler! Five winners will be chosen at random. View all the prizes here.
Thanks so much and good luck everyone!
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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)
Kill time and your innocence with Cards Against Humanity
Have you ever wished for a more blatantly offensive version of Apples to Apples? Look no more!
Looks like this year’s X-mas game festivities will be… interesting.
Youngest Member of Mensa Announces Live on Air She Has to Go Poop
Best/Worst interview ever.
New Google Chrome extension lets you learn a new language while you surf the web
Yesterday, Google released a cool new Chrome extension called Language Immersion that lets you learn a new language in bits and pieces while you surf the web. You choose your language, choose your immersion level and Chrome changes certain phrases to let you learn the language of your choice in a context you can understand.
This is very cool. Get your learnin on.
