As part of my visit to Chapel Hill several weeks ago, I was treated to a real international breakfast. The Apfelkuechen was from a local German bakery, and the hot chocolate (on top of which I added whipped cream and cinnamon) was from Spain, and made with whole milk. Luscious. And Delicious!
Taken with instagram
Banksy
- in London (I think..)
Sunny day on the beach (Taken with instagram)
Joe (Taken with instagram)
I can’t get your body, out of my mind.. (Taken with instagram)
On of my favorites. Masse. (Taken with instagram)
For Agnese :)
THE GREAT SHOWDOWNS book to be released in October 2012!
It’s the first ever collection of the Great Showdowns! About 150 of them collected into one sweet little volume. With a foreword by the one and very only Neil Patrick Harris! And a special little intro by me (Scott C). Big time exciting!
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THE GREAT SHOWDOWNS
by Scott C.
Foreword by Neil Patrick Harris
To be released in October 2012
Book release and Art Exhibition on September 21, 2012 @ Gallery 1988
Pre-order the book right here!
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I am excited about this news.
npr:
Ooooo.
Genetics of the Beautiful “Glass Gem” Corn
Corn gone viral? You’re looking at an ear of a corn variety called “Glass Gem”, grown by Greg Schoen of Seeds Trust. This is real corn! How does it grow this way?
First you have to understand a few things about corn. Each corn kernel is actually a sort of unique plant. A corn plant’s male parts (the “tassels”) sit at the top of the stalk, and drop pollen downward. Unfertilized ears (the female parts) catch the pollen with the sticky ends of their corn silks. Each corn silk (I hate when that gets in my teeth) grabs a pollen grain, shuttles it allllllll the way down inside the ear, eventually creating one kernel for each pollen-silk-ovum combination. It’s one of the more interesting and inefficient breeding schemes I know of.
If you’ve taken genetics, you know that the parents’ genes will combine by chance, leading to certain ratios of inheritance in the offspring. This is the basis of Mendelian genetics (great Khan Academy video here).
With corn, we’ve simply carefully bred all the interestingness out of them. Native Americans were used to multi-colored corn, because corn plants held many varieties of color genes that could combine at random. Now all we are left with are one-color clones.
This “Glass Gem” corn is the other extreme of the spectrum, a combination of corn color hybrid genes and random pollination. It’s almost too pretty to eat!
(via Discover Magazine)
