Your grandmother bequeaths a statue of an angel to you in her will. You find it creepy, but not having the heart to sell it, you store it in the basement. The next morning, to your horror, the basement door is wide open, and there is a note lying where you left the statue. Picking it up, you barely make out the scrawled words. “Find me before I find you.”
Psychiatric disorders can be debilitating and often involve a genetic component, yet, evolution hasn’t weeded them out. Now, recent work is beginning to reveal the role of natural selection — offering a peek at how the genetic underpinnings of mental illness has changed over time.
Many psychiatric disorders are polygenic: they can involve hundreds or thousands of genes and DNA mutations. It can be difficult to track how so many genetic regions evolved, and such studies require large genome data sets. But the advent of massive human genome databases is enabling researchers to look for possible connections between mental illnesses and the environmental and societal conditions that might have driven their emergence and development. Others are looking to Neanderthal genetic sequences to help inform the picture of these disorders, as well as cognitive abilities, in humans. Several of these teams presented their findings at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) meeting in Orlando, Florida, in late October.
The Black Earth. (photoshop)
There are many stories about Dhio, nearly every one of them is false.
bruh
Aliens have invaded and are taking over. Their technology, intelligence, and power is unstoppable. They just didnt plan on one thing: The old gods returning.
I was working upstairs when I hear one of our baby leopard geckos start screaming. Normally they only scream when threatened, but this particular guy screams at almost everything. Turns out there was a small fly in his cage that was bothering him.
Yes the fly was removed afterwards.
Why do I always fuck up? No matter how much I try I always fuck up in some way, and I'm sure that everyone around me is getting sick of it... I should have just stayed up late, that way I wouldn't have missed the flight...I'm sure she's getting sick of me, who wouldn't? I'm a goddamed failure. What do I do? What if I don't get to see her? I'm going crazy about her, and yet I couldn't muster the strength to wake up at 2:30?? What the fuck is wrong with me?? She probably feels the same way, God, I just hate myself sometimes... I know self pity isn't attractive, but what else can I do when I can't even fix this on my own? She probably thinks I don't love her... but I do, I'm so crazy about her, and yet I missed the goddamed flight. I don't deserve her.
last night my father said “good night mario” because i had been driving him around today and apparently going too fast, like the car racer mario andretti
but i didn’t know what he was talking about so i just sleepily replied “good night luigi”
You love fighting this villian. Because even thought he has immense powers he’s quite fun to actually battle, quite chill when you thwart his plans, and a bit incompetent when it comes to villiany. The problem is that now his mother is here.
You discover that you have the ability to let other people experience your nostalgia. You find that your friend needs some comfort after a rather terrible day. You take a deep breath, put your hand on their shoulder, and let the memories begin.