“Most cases of cyclopia are not, however, caused by anything the mother did (or did not do) during her pregnancy. Mutations in at least four and perhaps as many as twelve human genes also cause some form of holoprosencephaly. One of these genes encodes a signalling protein called sonic hedgehog. This molecule received its name in the early 1980s when a mutant fruit fly was discovered whose maggot progeny had a surplus of bristles covering their tiny bodies. ‘Hedgehog’ was the obvious name for the gene, and when a related gene was discovered in the vertebrates, ‘sonic hedgehog’ seemed the natural choice to a postgraduate student who perhaps loved his gaming-console too much.”
Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body, Armand Marie Leroi
Holy shit , right ?
6 Board-Game Movies Hollywood is Planning Next
In honor of Battleship’s theatrical release, here are six more classic games Hollywood is adapting to film.
The Best and Worst Examples of Legally Changing Your Name
Some of us willingly burden ourselves with names that make everyone who meets you want to travel back in time to punch your mother in the ovaries. Others, however, are pure win.
Home sick : (
So moving to California has turned out to be one of the most draining things I’ve ever done. I love this place but I don’t love experiencing it alone. And just being alone period. Walking up and down Garnet ave. and catching tags is not my idea of fun. Its cool and everything but I feel just as lost as one of the bums down in ocean beach. I just need to go home and re-evaluate for a week or so and make up my mind after I do that. This is just like everything else in life that goes wrong …” It’s not you it’s me “kinda scenarios. It’s not california thats fucked up it’s me. Go figure
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