Using a grand jury was an obvious disadvantage. As planned.
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[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photograph of a manatee with lettuce over its face. TEXT: “Phhbbllt phhbblllt phbblllt. Phhbbllt phhhblt phblt phblltt.”]
Image credit to Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
Less silly pictures to follow.
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They say there’s no smoke without fire, and it looks like we came pretty close lark night. Kathryn was awoken by out power tripping out and went downstairs to check…where she found the dishwasher timer sparking merrily away despite no longer having power. She yanked it from the mains and the dishwasher itself; unfortunately it seems that despite its apparently high current rating it couldn’t cope with the switching current of the dishwasher… it’s pretty melty… and I suspect this marks the end of my attempts to create an inline timer. Time to find dishwasher with a built in one I guess…
This though is the second time Kathryn has saved our street from a fiery doom (having saved our neighbours house a while ago)
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Boost, Signal
On a serious note…
Ferguson Municipal Library remains open and ready to welcome the public, including the many children for whom school was cancelled this week. If you are safe and warm where you are, and worried about this little city that is hurting right now, please consider a donation of any size to the library. Link is in upper right corner. Let’s do what we can to spread some joy and support today.
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Saying that social media causes problems for the police is basically code for “We don’t like how visible we now are when we do terrible things.”
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Women can see more shades of red than men. The gene that allows us to see the color red is on the X chromosome, of which men only have 1. Because women have 2, they can see crimson, maroon, cardinal, ruby, and scarlet, but men may only see light red and dark red. Source
This explains that argument my parents got into about this bag that my dad insisted was red and my mom was like hells to the no, it’s freaking maroon!
this explains everything
Hello yes XY woman here (trans woman) i can see all shades of red in this picture.
BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE
OP best be prepared to pay for a whole bunch of ppl’s karyotype tests =)
Pffft, yeah nope.
Heterozygous folks (with XY karyotypes) can see red with normal variation. The OPN1LW gene, which is found on the X chromosome and generates the red-sensitive opsin protein, usually only comes in one copy even in homozygous (XX) individuals. Having two X chromosomes doesn’t inherently increase your red-sensitive opsins. People are way more likely more copies of the gene that codes for green-sensitive opsins, and a much more variable number.
What IS true is that mutations, reduplications, deletions and other anomalies in this part of the chromosome are common; these often lead to various forms of color blindness, which are often heritable and more or less common depending on your karyotype and the exact condition.
Additionally, there are more aspects to color perception than just your cone cells. The brain is heavily involved, and it’s sensitive to all kinds of other biological indicators. It’s even sensitive to culture and language!
Indeed it is; language and culture are incredibly important in how you perceive colour. The Himba of Northern Namiba were included in a BBC Documentary about colour perception because their perception of colour is significantly different to that of English speakers. For example, ‘zoozu’ includes all of the colours most English speakers would call: dark blue, dark green, dark brown, dark purple, dark red or black.
On the other hand, to Himba people, this:
Has a stand-out obvious different square.
(via boing boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-language-affects-color-perception.html)
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The Republicans have a pretty simple philosophy: they say if those at the top have more — more power for Wall Street players to do whatever they want and more money for tax cuts than somehow they can be counted on to build the economy for everyone else. Well, we tried it for 30 years and it didn’t work. In fact the consequences were nearly catastrophic.
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Even medieval monks complained about their jobs!
There is no bitching like bitching in enormously expensive creations.
Oh, my hand.
I have probably reblogged this before but WHO CARES
IT’S STILL HILARIOUS
This is why I love people. Every time I think I hate everybody I should remember that people have been being PEOPLE for so long and it’s brilliant and I should embrace it all.
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