20 Pet Owners Who Are Doing It Right

this is your periodic reminder that old-timey medicines did not fuck around

Edgar Allan Pooh.

From Trump’s executive order — It basically declares everyone is now a woman.

All human embryos are female at conception…it takes around 6 weeks for fetal testes to produce androgen which counteracts the estrogen which produces male genitalia.

Oh, Autumn! Autumn!—What is the Spring to me?

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April; from 'The Death of Autumn'

The Business Cards Pop Culture Characters Would Have If They Changed Careers

At the End of Every Journey by Eye of the Storm Photography on Flickr.

TUIL

[noun]

a bunch of flowers; bouquet.

Etymology: Dutch.

[James R. Eads]

Tiny Baby Hedgehog Tries To Mouth A Human’s Finger

"a bird in the hand is better than a thousand birds flying." - proverbs of ahikar 

photos by konsta punkka. (see also previous bird posts)

Epigenomics starts to make its mark

Analysis of chemical patterns on DNA shows promise for explaining disease, but few results have yet been replicated.

Obesity may be written not only in the genes, but also on top of them. One of the largest studies so far to probe the human epigenome — the collective name for the patterns of chemical groups that adorn DNA sequences and influence their activity — has found some tags that are linked to differences in body mass index (BMI).

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