Light Emitting Proteins
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yamamanamaMallory at the Museum of Natural History looked a lot like Katherine but her name tag made it very obvious that she wasn't. Someone looked like Sara but had brown eyes instead of blue and lacked the floral shoulder tattoos. Someone looked like Shannon but had hazel eyes instead of pale blue and a bit of a cleft chin and her hair was unnaturally platinum blonde instead of naturally so. And, yes, I know a younger Mallory and a Mallorey but I have trouble thinking of anything but Malory Archer when I hear that name.
One of them had a lump of coprolite you could hold. Someone said it looked like ice cream and someone else said it was ice cream for Flintstones.
They had a list of all the minerals and their locations so I saw cobaltite with my own eyes and I confirmed that they don't have uraninite unless they call it pitchblende which I only now just remembered.
Glass flowers are mostly flowering plants but there are a some gymnosperms, a gingko, and the occasional fern.
They are a teaching tool. There are flowers that show pollination by bees, where the flowers are vividly colored, by moths, where they are white and night-blooming, by butterflies, where they are deep enough for them to get their proboscis down there, by flies, when the flowers produce scents like the flies' sexuality pheromones. There are carnivorous plants that depend on insects for sustenance and for pollination, so they must raise their flowers far above the chompy parts, there are plants that don't let insects out until they're laden with sufficient amounts of pollen. Plants require mechanisms to prevent self-pollination lest they end up as inbred as David Duke.
In the line for the glass flowers was a woman with purple hair in a braid.
There was an ocean life room that I either somehow didn't notice the last time I was there or was closed the last time I was there. I learned that there are things called Purple People Eaters and flower hat jellies.
Someone had various sets of mammalian arm bones, adapted for swimming, swinging, running, and flying. Your challenge was to figure out which one was for which purpose. They had 40,000 year old mammoth hairs.
Crocodilians have remained unchanged for the past 60 million years because they're already the perfect killing machine.
"It's warm ice."
"It's just a photograph of some ice cores," I said. "When someone comes up with Ice-9, you'll know."
There are forms of room temperature ice but they only form at 100,000 atm. The Mariana Trench is only 1000 atm ish.
The guy who drew Vitruvian Doug Funnie introduced himself to me and I promptly forgot his name because I do that. He had some new paintings, or at least, ones I haven't seen before or that didn't stick out in my mind, of Doug in a rowboat catching a fish, of Christina's World with a Pikachu in the grass, of Mortal Kombat. Autocorrect recognizes the name Pikachu but TextEdit's spell checker does not.
Garv Bomjan was playing at Harvard Station.
The train was a high capacity car, which meant that it had seats removed so I guess people could stand. A woman posed for me and then asked how I pick people I want to draw. I took my chances and got off and ran to the next car, which, it turns out, was also a high capacity car and was just as crowded until the very end, but at least there was Dexter the dog, along with a man reading a very ragged Wheel of Time novel and a woman reading something called In A Dark, Dark Wood, which sounds like it should be about a haunted forest in the Dark World but is actually a murder mystery that is firmly grounded in reality.
Wikipedia tells me the Big Red cars depart Alewife for Braintree at the top of the evening rush but my situation says otherwise, unless the top of evening rush is 3 PM, and at some point, they had no seats at all.
My burning question has nothing to do with a green-haired woman with a Twilight Princess t-shirt and less to do with her orchid-haired companion with a Deadpool t-shirt; I've been asking these questions all summer.
burning question: if there are clams with impenetrable shells in Hyrule, why do they not make everything out of those shells? Myabe the shell disappears when the clam dies?
One of them had a lump of coprolite you could hold. Someone said it looked like ice cream and someone else said it was ice cream for Flintstones.
They had a list of all the minerals and their locations so I saw cobaltite with my own eyes and I confirmed that they don't have uraninite unless they call it pitchblende which I only now just remembered.
Glass flowers are mostly flowering plants but there are a some gymnosperms, a gingko, and the occasional fern.
They are a teaching tool. There are flowers that show pollination by bees, where the flowers are vividly colored, by moths, where they are white and night-blooming, by butterflies, where they are deep enough for them to get their proboscis down there, by flies, when the flowers produce scents like the flies' sexuality pheromones. There are carnivorous plants that depend on insects for sustenance and for pollination, so they must raise their flowers far above the chompy parts, there are plants that don't let insects out until they're laden with sufficient amounts of pollen. Plants require mechanisms to prevent self-pollination lest they end up as inbred as David Duke.
In the line for the glass flowers was a woman with purple hair in a braid.
There was an ocean life room that I either somehow didn't notice the last time I was there or was closed the last time I was there. I learned that there are things called Purple People Eaters and flower hat jellies.
Someone had various sets of mammalian arm bones, adapted for swimming, swinging, running, and flying. Your challenge was to figure out which one was for which purpose. They had 40,000 year old mammoth hairs.
Crocodilians have remained unchanged for the past 60 million years because they're already the perfect killing machine.
"It's warm ice."
"It's just a photograph of some ice cores," I said. "When someone comes up with Ice-9, you'll know."
There are forms of room temperature ice but they only form at 100,000 atm. The Mariana Trench is only 1000 atm ish.
The guy who drew Vitruvian Doug Funnie introduced himself to me and I promptly forgot his name because I do that. He had some new paintings, or at least, ones I haven't seen before or that didn't stick out in my mind, of Doug in a rowboat catching a fish, of Christina's World with a Pikachu in the grass, of Mortal Kombat. Autocorrect recognizes the name Pikachu but TextEdit's spell checker does not.
Garv Bomjan was playing at Harvard Station.
The train was a high capacity car, which meant that it had seats removed so I guess people could stand. A woman posed for me and then asked how I pick people I want to draw. I took my chances and got off and ran to the next car, which, it turns out, was also a high capacity car and was just as crowded until the very end, but at least there was Dexter the dog, along with a man reading a very ragged Wheel of Time novel and a woman reading something called In A Dark, Dark Wood, which sounds like it should be about a haunted forest in the Dark World but is actually a murder mystery that is firmly grounded in reality.
Wikipedia tells me the Big Red cars depart Alewife for Braintree at the top of the evening rush but my situation says otherwise, unless the top of evening rush is 3 PM, and at some point, they had no seats at all.
My burning question has nothing to do with a green-haired woman with a Twilight Princess t-shirt and less to do with her orchid-haired companion with a Deadpool t-shirt; I've been asking these questions all summer.
burning question: if there are clams with impenetrable shells in Hyrule, why do they not make everything out of those shells? Myabe the shell disappears when the clam dies?
