Mom and Dad went out to dinner for their anniversary. Here is sample dinner conversation from my brother and I back at home.
Caleb: Dude that was crazy, Dad at ACF grad dinner.
Me: Yeah I know. I was like, Dad talks?
Caleb: I thought it was crazier that he cried.
Me: Oh I don't think so. It's pretty Japanese to cry.
Caleb: I wasn't crying. Anna wasn't crying.
Me: Well, I was crying. You're just not Japanese.
Caleb: SHUT UP. You have the whitest face.
Just wanted to say thank you to all my brothers and sisters on Tumblr.
Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.
Especially to the ones I know—please keep writing. Keep us old alums updated. We’ll be praying.
Everyone will fulfill a law—either their own law of hatred, or the King’s Law of Love.
Jesus says,
But [they hated me and my Father] to fulfill the word that is written in their law, “They hated me without a cause.”
And James writes,
If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.
And Paul writes,
For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
And he writes later,
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. For this, “You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
[John 15:25, James 2:8, Galatians 5:14, Romans 13:8-10]
“If anything can make us rise off our bed of sloth and serve God with all our might, it should be this, the hope of our near enjoyment of God forever.” - Thomas Watson
“Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.”
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!
Colour-enhanced image of red blood cells leaking out of a ruptured blood vessel. This is due to a mutation in the ephrin-B2 gene that causes the blood vessels to be more fragile than normal leading to an increased rate of haemorrhaging. The fragility is due to the inadequate coverage of the vessel by smooth muscle cells. This kind of leaky blood vessel is frequently found in tumours and in certain other human diseases.
