Broken
If you want to copy a group of songs in iTunes into a folder or onto another drive, just select the songs you want to move, and drag them into the Finder. This makes a copy of the songs files without moving them from the iTunes library. This little tip could have saved me a lot of time had I known it earlier.
“Plants … can recognize the root systems of siblings from the same momma plant and will give them a more fair share of nutrients in the soil.”
“When the plants shared a pot with seeds from the same parent plant, they shared access to light by growing taller with more branches and fewer leaves. But when those same impatiens were planted with other impatiens—but not their siblings—they put more energy into growing more and larger leaves that could crowd out the non-relatives.
Researchers say the roots alert plants to the relationship of nearby plants, because when impatiens were planted near siblings but in separate pots, they didn’t recognize their kin. Just goes to show that even in the plant world, family comes first.”
As I learn more about humans, animals, and brains, there are fewer and fewer behaviors and feelings I think I can contribute to free will or conscious choice. Obviously these plants aren’t choosing to cooperate with their kin, they are merely undergoing a chemical reaction in response to an external stimulus.
If brainless plants can give the appearance of nepotism, then who’s to say that human behavior doesn’t work basically the same way at its core?
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Tiny Fey at Ad Council dinner, with Sarah Palin in attendance. (via New York Times) (via soupsoup) I heart Tina Fey. (via leftbrainright) |




