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Rimple and Harpreet Narula | Women’s Couture SS 2016

Take your child to work day.

Hi Tumblr. I don’t get to update a lot these days, and this is the reason why. The trailer for the movie that Kumail and I wrote together is finally out! 

Most of my time right now is spent on promotional stuff for the movie, writing ideas for other movies, and working on friends’ TV shows when I can, so I don’t have a lot of time to answer questions on Tumblr, but I wanted to show you all why I’ve been so absent. 

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Octopus and squid evolution is officially weirder than we could have ever imagined

Just when we thought octopuses couldn’t be any weirder, it turns out that they and their cephalopod brethren evolve differently from nearly every other organism on the planet.

In a surprising twist, scientists have discovered that octopuses, along with some squid and cuttlefish species, routinely edit their RNA (ribonucleic acid) sequences to adapt to their environment.

This is weird because that’s really not how adaptations usually happen in multicellular animals. When an organism changes in some fundamental way, it typically starts with a genetic mutation - a change to the DNA.

The findings have been published in Cell.

Plant-filled Baltimore loft

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