I’m sure everyone’s much safer and happier now.
“Why do we have blood types?” is not just a question high people ask:
Our blood types might be even older, but it’s hard to know how old. Scientists have yet to analyse the genes of all primates, so they can’t see how widespread our own versions are among other species. But the evidence that scientists have gathered so far already reveals a turbulent history to blood types. In some lineages mutations have shut down one blood type or another. Chimpanzees, our closest living relatives, have only type A and type O blood. Gorillas, on the other hand, have only B. In some cases mutations have altered the ABO gene, turning type A blood into type B. And even in humans, scientists are finding, mutations have repeatedly arisen that prevent the ABO protein from building a second storey on the blood type house. These mutations have turned blood types from A or B to O. “There are hundreds of ways of being type O,” says Westhoff.
The way some of us live now.
I need your help, former RENT-heads or casual RENT listeners, and Twitter has done nothing for me. You know how in “Contact,” near the end, Maureen says “I think I missed / Don’t get pissed”? WHAT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT, I have been wondering for 15 years. Because Joanne is a neat freak, I’ve always wondered if Maureen just got a non-approved surface messy. Elon Green suggested she maneuvered a strap-on poorly, but uh, I think JOANNE would know that first? I’ve generally assumed Maureen just didn’t reach orgasm, but that’s kind of a shitty, manipulative way to announce it. I don’t know. Maybe you know?
Kate McKinnon didn’t realize that cat shelters are not to be trifled with.
Oh, wow, this marble statue DOES look exactly like Ron Swanson.
Rohin Guha on being a gay man and beach body politics and crushing:
One time, I was baking cupcakes and in trying to pick the eggs out of the carton, I dropped one on the kitchen floor. There was a sharp splat that cut through the air–and by my toes was the shattered egg shell, yolk oozing out and pooling. This is how hard I tend to fall for the right person.
Dogs in wheelchairs playing fetch.
