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I knew that my precalc teacher was from Houston, but I just found that he’s from Spring. Is that not where Jim is from? Am I not technically best friends with Jim now?

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Hello! I asked him about this and he informed me that he went to the same church as Jim’s family. Judy is a Sunday school teacher!

#small world

outvade

Night Sky by Jason Domogalla

#i cannot wait for this #space #snow

may

This girl is quitting social media and going through all her old posts editing the captions and it’s oddly really interesting

pammieomana

Project Shamy (203/365)

infiniteseries8

its gonna take a little longer :/

#it could still happen in exactly four years #it would be october 4 2016 #i hope the writers remember this #tbbt

joshuaxmatthews-deactivated2017

Holy shit!!! Clue or not?

ohscreamqueens

omg is grace really the other baby + the other red devil??

#okay hear me out #three devils #the two babies (boone + another).... and grace #wasn't grace at the house the entire time that gigi + other baby were having their hotel thanksgiving?#among other instances #scream queens

sixpenceee

Memorial for Unborn Children by Martin Hudáček

#<3 #art

post--grad

30 sept, 6pm // it’s a Big Sean & Old English poetry kind of night, with bonus Shakespeare if I find the energy. being on campus 5 days a week is exhausting.

#big sean and old english poetry sounds amazing #studyblr

mindblowingscience

The tardigrade genome has been sequenced, and it has the most foreign DNA of any animal

Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tardigrade, AKA the water bear, for the first time. And it turns out that this weird little creature has the most foreign genes of any animal studied so far – or to put it another way, roughly one-sixth of the tardigrade’s genome was stolen from other species. We have to admit, we’re kinda not surprised.

A little background here for those who aren’t familiar with the strangeness that is the tardigrade – the microscopic water creature grows to just over 1 mm on average, and is the only animal that can survive in the harsh environment of space. It can also withstand temperatures from just above absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water, can cope with ridiculous amounts of pressure and radiation, and can live for more than 10 years without food or water. Basically, it’s nearly impossible to kill, and now scientists have shown that its DNA is just as bizarre as it is.

So what’s foreign DNA and why does it matter that tardigrades have so much of it? The term refers to genes that have come from another organism via a process known as horizontal gene transfer, as opposed to being passed down through traditional reproduction.

Horizontal gene transfer occurs in humans and other animals occasionally, usually as a result of gene swapping with viruses, but to put it into perspective, most animals have less than 1 percent of their genome made up of foreign DNA. Before this, the rotifer – another microscopic water creature – was believed to have the most foreign genes of any animal, with 8 or 9 percent.

But the new research has shown that approximately 6,000 of the tardigrade’s genes come from foreign species, which equates to around 17.5 percent.

“We had no idea that an animal genome could be composed of so much foreign DNA,” said study co-author Bob Goldstein, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “We knew many animals acquire foreign genes, but we had no idea that it happens to this degree.”

#this is the weirdest animal i've ever seen i love it #animals #science

samanthamariedigiulio

#today i am grateful that i am going to school five minutes away from this next year #marquette

I just decided that I’m going to have a daughter one day and I’m going to name her Beatrix and everyone will call her Trix and she’ll be so freakin cool.

#happy thanksgiving i thankful for my future child #text