FIG & ROBIN GIVE✦AWAY 

its been a little while since ive done one of these!! 🤭 i thought it would be a fun way to celebrate the fig & robin launch a little.

✦ The GA will end August 15th, after which a winner will be randomly selected! 

✦ The winner will recieve 2 pieces of their choice from the current fig & robin collection. (If you have already placed an order or are planning to and you win, ill refund the cost of two items back to you!)

To enter:

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✦ Must be within the US

A modular, redundant genome where genes can be turned on and off conditionally, and where the regulatory elements that decide those conditions can be modified or swapped without altering the sequence of the main gene. This makes it easier to evolve new functional variants and adapt to new conditions.

Related, phenotype plasticity, i.e. the ability for a single genotype to generate multiple phenotypes depending on environment. A species with multiple possible phenotypes can easily split into multiple species specialized for different conditions; even if a phenotype is conditional at first, it can be made permanent by a later mutation (genetic assimilation).

More in general, imperfect correspondence between genotype and phenotype, i.e. DNA-is-not-a-blueprint. A protein can have more than function (protein promiscuity), multiple genes can affect the same trait in a non-additive way (epistasis), the same gene can affect multiple traits (pleiotropy).

Redundancy of DNA (multiple gene sequences result in the exact same protein) and multiploidy (multiple copies of each gene, the functional ones covering the bad ones) lead to the accumulation of mutations, some of which may be beneficial in the future, while limiting the damage of harmful ones.

Sexual recombination (fertilization to mix different lineages, and meiosis to make unique rearrangements of your parents' genes) increasing the genetic variability of offspring, while also limiting the buildup of harmful mutations (which would be an issue with a simple increase in the mutation rate).

Symmetry and modularity in body architecture, allowing to easily generate many specialized variations of a basic plan (and also making more likely that each variation is functional in the first place: you don't have to evolve each eye independently). Arthropod segmentation seems especially good, but all animals and plants have this to some degree.

A modular, redundant genome where genes can be turned on and off conditionally, and where the regulatory elements that decide those conditions can be modified or swapped without altering the sequence of the main gene. This makes it easier to evolve new functional variants and adapt to new conditions.

Related, phenotype plasticity, i.e. the ability for a single genotype to generate multiple phenotypes depending on environment. A species with multiple possible phenotypes can easily split into multiple species specialized for different conditions; even if a phenotype is conditional at first, it can be made permanent by a later mutation (genetic assimilation).

More in general, imperfect correspondence between genotype and phenotype, i.e. DNA-is-not-a-blueprint. A protein can have more than function (protein promiscuity), multiple genes can affect the same trait in a non-additive way (epistasis), the same gene can affect multiple traits (pleiotropy).

Redundancy of DNA (multiple gene sequences result in the exact same protein) and multiploidy (multiple copies of each gene, the functional ones covering the bad ones) lead to the accumulation of mutations, some of which may be beneficial in the future, while limiting the damage of harmful ones.

Sexual recombination (fertilization to mix different lineages, and meiosis to make unique rearrangements of your parents' genes) increasing the genetic variability of offspring, while also limiting the buildup of harmful mutations (which would be an issue with a simple increase in the mutation rate).

Symmetry and modularity in body architecture, allowing to easily generate many specialized variations of a basic plan (and also making more likely that each variation is functional in the first place: you don't have to evolve each eye independently). Arthropod segmentation seems especially good, but all animals and plants have this to some degree.

Closest match: Bombyx mori BmN4 cell DNA, chromosome 24, sequence Common name: Domestic Silk Moth

Trevor Noah has a great tip, that when he craves ice cream at night he breaks it down into parts: I want something cold, I want something sweet. He drinks a glass of cold water then waits to see if he still has the ice cream craving. Usually he doesn’t.

So listening to your body isn’t “follow every urge” but “decompose the urge to discover the underlying need.”

If you always feel like getting cozy in bed you may be: cold, dehydrated, and/or malnourished (maybe a need for high calories that are bioaccessible…not processed).

If you do not feel tired at bedtime you may: need to eat dinner earlier because your body is still digesting, need to exercise or go outside more during the day, get the fuck off your screen for an hour so your brain can enter sleep mode.

Hope this helps someone.

Happy new year! Here's the end of the 1953 EC Comics adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains," first published in Weird Fantasy #17.

In the sunfish’s defense!!!!!

[20 minutes]

"They're not hurting anybody. Except for jellyfish. They're hurting a LOT of jellyfish."