Sunset on the Cliffs by diesmali on Flickr.
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Who doesn’t love brainbow?
For people who don’t know, brainbow is a type of stain created by a researcher at Harvard. Essentially, differing amounts of flourescent proteins in every single cell mean that each neuron is a different color. This means it is much easier to follow a single neuron along the axon and dendrites and see where it connects to, etc. since all the surrounding cells are different colors. I just love the way it looks!
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Who doesn’t love brainbow?
For people who don’t know, brainbow is a type of stain created by a researcher at Harvard. Essentially, differing amounts of flourescent proteins in every single cell mean that each neuron is a different color. This means it is much easier to follow a single neuron along the axon and dendrites and see where it connects to, etc. since all the surrounding cells are different colors. I just love the way it looks!
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The Spirit Leaves the Body | Duane Michals.
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Borgund Stave Church in Lærdal Valley, Norway (by Mel Toledo).
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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!
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The Merchant’s WifeBoris Kustodiev1918oil on canvas
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I found this on the wikipedia page about samovars, doing research for better all day tea-swilling solutions. I love everything about it—the giant classically-Russian woman, the neon palette, the cat engaged in such a familiar cat gesture—of rubbing his face on you in hopes of charming you into sharing your lunch, the people having tea in a distant balcony, the man wrangling a proud white horse in the street below, the bizarre, seafoam sky. The food looks absolutely sensual, the flavors perfectly produced in synaesthetic colors. The rich, cold, smooth roundness of the melon recalling the same traits in the beautiful human subject. I have never seen a more effective advertisement for sitting down to tea.
Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary.[1] His father died young, and all financial and material burdens fell on his mother’s shoulders.[2] The Kustodiev family rented a small wing in a rich merchant’s house. It was there that the boy’s first impressions were formed of the way of life of the provincial merchant class. The artist later wrote, “The whole tenor of the rich and plentiful merchant way of life was there right under my nose… It was like something out of an Ostrovsky play.”[2] The artist retained these childhood observations for years, recreating them later in oils and water-colours.[2]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m325cviKGw1qzvg5fo1_400.jpg)
The Merchant’s Wife
Boris Kustodiev
1918
oil on canvasCLICK IMAGE FOR FULL SIZE!
I found this on the wikipedia page about samovars, doing research for better all day tea-swilling solutions. I love everything about it—the giant classically-Russian woman, the neon palette, the cat engaged in such a familiar cat gesture—of rubbing his face on you in hopes of charming you into sharing your lunch, the people having tea in a distant balcony, the man wrangling a proud white horse in the street below, the bizarre, seafoam sky. The food looks absolutely sensual, the flavors perfectly produced in synaesthetic colors. The rich, cold, smooth roundness of the melon recalling the same traits in the beautiful human subject. I have never seen a more effective advertisement for sitting down to tea.
Boris Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary.[1] His father died young, and all financial and material burdens fell on his mother’s shoulders.[2] The Kustodiev family rented a small wing in a rich merchant’s house. It was there that the boy’s first impressions were formed of the way of life of the provincial merchant class. The artist later wrote, “The whole tenor of the rich and plentiful merchant way of life was there right under my nose… It was like something out of an Ostrovsky play.”[2] The artist retained these childhood observations for years, recreating them later in oils and water-colours.[2]
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From 甄嬛傳 (Zhen Huan Zhuan).
why is this under hanfu though?
if anything, it’s a qipao
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