Game of Thrones
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Biology
Genetics in Game of Thrones: Greyscale
I’ve been hoping for a while that I would come up with another idea for this series. And then Shireen…
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“Present Shock”, Game of Thrones, and Stories that Never End
Recently, Douglass Rushkoff talked about something called “Present Shock” in Wired. In particular one quote stood out for me, about…
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Crafting
Hitting things with Hammers
A few weeks ago I made a post about my genderbent Slave Leia costume. I had some requests to explain…
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Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 12.19
It’s the Holiday-ishly Mad Gifts and other Quickies… Morbid Anatomy‘s fantabulous gifts from a holiday fair. Spock earrings. {via Anne…
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Biology
Genetics in Game of Thrones: Blood of the Dragon
I hope you had as much fun reading these as I did writing them. This will be the last one,…
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Biology
Genetics in Game of Thrones: Those Crazy Inbred Targaryens
I wanted to shift gears a little bit and finally stop talking so much about Robert Baratheon. And a lot…
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Biology
Genetics in Game of Thrones: Forensics
If there’s one thing that definitely hasn’t been developed yet in Westeros, it’s modern DNA profiling techniques. DNA profiling uses…
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Biology
Genetics in Game of Thrones: “The Seed is Strong”
Westeros is clearly not the place to nitpick about scientific realism: the very turning of the seasons seems to answer…
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