#nongenerative

[cosmowes]

paper notes ❤️

sorry notion girlies… i’m a biased paper note taker. i actually have a notion, but i never use it lol 😭 doing stuff physically works sm better for me

i just wanna talk about some benefits of physical/digital notes, and how i keep mine cute :)

THE BENEFITS

taking notes physically has been shown to help improve memorization (01). another thing i’ve noticed for myself is that i tend to just copy when i take digital notes since there’s more space, but with physical notes i rephrase and consider the notes as i take them.

this venn diagram (taken from 02) shows some basic information about different ways of taking notes. paper is slower but generative; laptop is faster but nongenerative.

for me, i’m willing to make that sacrifice because long term retention is my goal, not quick memorization. but if it isn’t a class you’ll need for a long time (eg. my drama class) i think digital can work.

one last thing- when i’m studying, i have trouble going over my notes again bc i find it boring. with physical notes, this is usually when i highlight and make them cute, so it forces me to look over them again. speaking of which:

THE AESTHETICS

so fun fact: you don’t need fancy supplies for cute notes. i use a three ring binder from staples, some cheapy plastic dividers, office depot pencils and some pastel bics.

if you like pens, then def get some in cute colors! pentel are my holy grain, but they are sort of expensive. i had every color but most of them have run out of ink by now.

thin mechanical pencils >>> i don’t have any at the moment but i’m definitely getting more soon. love them. perfect for details.

good highlighters!! these are so important to me. i have pastel bics but i wanna get mildliners sometime soon.

cute bullet point shapes. i do hearts, stars, flowers, etc…

stickers sticker stickers! i put stickers on everything they are so amazing, they make everything cuter

if you wanna get fancy, try washi tape

also little cutouts are great!

sticky notes for trivia q’s and corrections and such since you can flip them up :) i have see through ones and they’re great

[dabblingreturns]

So I don't know about the rest of y'all* but I don't always check bios for pronouns or remember if I've previously checked them....

Therefore on my first encounter woth the poster, everyone with a male icon is he/they till im told otherwise and everyone with a female icon is she/they....and everyone who has a nongenered or multi gendered icon is they/they until I read a post that gives a gender.

Yes, I relize I'm a they/they by this rule....but that's okay with me......

The one exception to this rule, is my beloved, little haikubot.

Little haikubot is my babydoll, my little poetry echo.

But seriously, to me, little haikubot's pronouns are it/it.

*"i don't know about the rest of y'all" is why I don't know know your gender and that's okay. I just know alot of you are funny

[lionews]

"cc_a_baby (#427731) 

does anyone have IBS or is it just me??"

I'm going to end it all (/nongen) if chat mods don't come soon I'm going insane

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[coronellotainfo]

#Concepcion camino a nongen esquina diego portales posible presencia de gases combustibles en vía publica bomberos en ruta. #ECHBiobio https://t.co/3fuDx4iptc

[444names]

sindarin dictionary + finnish names

Abown Adanele Adelonen Adfuit Adhed Adhervil Advervo Aegla Aerja Agorn Aijan Ainna Allati Amelter Ammennen Ammiden Amorgaze Anadim Andervo Andonen Anenen Anher Anith Annestriki Anniki Antle Anurtta Apheas Archanel Arrid Arthadh Aterearja Augmen Auguar Aukorgirmi Aunth Baila Barigh Bedge Beekon Belipark Bensen Bethoss Biainent Bletaht Bodeson Bollaeft Bouse Braben Braguar Brendespen Brieth Budainge Buref Buros Calloth Cappringe Carkinenen Cartiemith Catcromy Catinkal Cawnen Chiltor Cianto Cinen Ciona Cloth Colatiff Coldev Colehtive Collinkanc Comathrown Cutjälä Cáfronen Círila Cýronas Dagle Danalalt Danday Daniemmaar Dappoive Decken Dedined Delui Depadely Depponen Deprohtemy Dianderron Dinennib Dirching Doritunt Duarjalaph Díride Dýgaew Dýgal Ealarighto Eards Ectill Einatiage Eljannen Emethug Entolabui Erjalmaing Ernords Eroth Exild Exthilleb Fallosuri Faniona Farabula Fardsmal Farkedh Farsol Fearp Felists Fembog Feneinen Ficulth Fimmoom Finen Firvi Fleath Fleppely Flise Floraulw Flouruni Fordaell Fravaar Fritaronen Frontren Fírinen Galfick Garathilia Garnark Garth Gatiria Geres Gilden Giousen Giveevila Glair Glast Glimale Glodograve Gloski Gloste Gonen Gorabsc Goraskil Gorateladh Gornen Gororia Guang Guesdaer Guloyala Gwate Gwatto Gwirdeth Haben Hable Hadan Halia Halow Handisty Haner Hanqui Hantti Hattiven Haull Havio Heamuser Hearane Heinen Heith Hemäkil Hencer Herbsceng Herechang Hindainka Hippast Holandar Holoth Horecider Hosen Houtu Hukos Huokonence Huttue Hwand Hyvärvilim Hämäki Icuskone Iishans Ilbed Ildiming Iläing Imaing Ingwenna Irinni Istoloseer Jersecke Juntanti Jutchaann Juvound Kallood Kalod Kanibig Karppin Kated Keitue Kiirth Kinew Konded Konen Konivery Laaphy Ladarody Laily Larlarth Larpecto Larvi Laybomeleb Leartter Lerom Lhand Lhaund Limla Lintter Lisla Liven Livenen Lorond Lortelyinc Lovisy Lumen Lunna Maarly Maecro Mague Maidel Maince Maing Manytheim Maral Marno Marter Mashou Matchiod Mathearvi Mauneta Memadfuse Menen Mener Merose Minast Minen Mirchorn Misadh Miska Munen Mäkive Míriaiso Mîthan Nalovi Naltholady Nanet Nattiver Neceb Nencath Nencavunt Nennings Niemistod Niempte Nionen Nobal Nongen Nuilph Nukkiikkel Nuriten Nybola Nîdhon Nóruic Obled Oewein Olaewed Olebelm Ostel Othip Othrape Otivild Ousakkor Outhrowed Ovalf Paeluescui Pakedren Pakerch Paltheamm Pandila Pannel Paret Parridagol Paterve Peksive Pelaing Peretwist Pickna Pilppälä Pinen Piredre Pirkkally Plapoking Ponen Porth Preath Prentor Prittea Proos Puund Pyyrkko Raeatonent Raernousy Rafth Ralad Ranth Rapha Rasheled Rathan Raybrien Repputh Requile Retine Rever Revin Rhols Rialeas Riemo Riter Rokaiski Roner Ronge Roola Ruithall Rundy Runín Ränen Saaloe Saarma Sabenkol Sagre Saija Salfus Salmoiven Samegol Sartasti Savenn Saveska Scemper Seatarf Seple Shaphine Sharhad Shenen Shuhanig Siethran Sillon Sivain Sivreas Skive Slinnieli Sonen Sookki Sotela Souder Spancha Spaspi Speolan Sperja Spervalimi Sphasse Spiljärvi Stalto Stiviö Stopir Stord Strod Suble Subloneth Subst Suprown Swatha Talia Talpely Tamootd Tanen Tanskall Tapitad Tapääsänen Tawkwarti Teglive Terio Thaunw Thonen Thonenc Thran Tinenen Toistol Toner Trappos Tread Trefin Triited Trustran Turrio Twisc Tíriste Uiling Undourmi Unent Upread Uruppikell Usisse Ustoll Vainen Vallen Vania Vaniettle Vapalotin Vearown Viridial Virviö Waeck Wainen Wenost Whalmarith Wicking Willipbud Winen Winer Woors Woorth Worith Wribel Ylias Yllon

[southslates]

knowing i will never get to be as into general atla fandom as i'd like because i'm a diehard zutara is so... sad sometimes LOL

[thingaweeek-blog]

Dunes

[theramseyloft]

Leg Feathering structural side effects in Pigeons

I go searching through science news sites to find new pigeon research when I have the time, and recently found this article:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160315085944.htm 

“University of Utah scientists identified two genes that make some pigeon breeds develop feathered feet known as muffs, while others have scaled feet. The same or similar genes might explain scaled feet in chickens and other birds, and provide insight into how some dinosaurs got feathers before they evolved into birds.”

“The study found that in pigeons with feathers on their hindlimbs or feet, a hindlimb-development gene named Pitx1 is less active than normal, while a forelimb-development gene named Tbx5 is active in the feet, where it normally is not.In other words, "pigeons' fancy feathered feet are partially wings," says biologist Mike Shapiro, senior author of the study published today by the journal eLife.”

“In mutant pigeons with foot feathers, "the hindlimb is clearly recognizable as a leg, but it has taken on more forelimb characteristics," he says. "It's not a complete transformation of a leg into a wing. Rather, components of the leg are more winglike, including feathers and a larger leg bone." “

“Shapiro and colleagues found that the Pitx1 and Tbx5 genes themselves are no different in breeds with and without foot muffs. Instead, they learned that nongene "regulatory sequences" of DNA near the genes act like switches to turn down the activity of hindlimb gene Pitx1 and turn up activity of forelimb gene Tbx5 in the embryos of pigeons with foot feathers.“ “

Neat, right?

I logged that away in the Research Papers section of the House Pet and Therapy Pigeon Discord, where I put interesting papers that aren’t related to sociology and cognition, and then thought nothing of it.

On the first, I was taking pictures and noticed that Cloud had some spectacularly awful poo foot. 

You can normally get caked on poo off by chipping it gently. (Usually from the caked claws of a nestling in summer.)

But when I tried to do this with Cloud, I realized that what should have been a solid, clay like lump had... tendrils of live, vascular skin? Running through it.

This took 45 minutes to break up and clean between a long soak in warm water and careful use of grooming tools.

Here is what we found:

An interesting side effect of making a pigeons leg more wing like is excess skin in the toes,

 like the structural webbing of a wing that supports the flights.

Cloud’s grandmother is a Giant Homer, which are prone to rapidly forming calluses in response to irritants to their feet,

In and of themselves, such callus growths are harmless.

But the combination of extra foot skin really exaggerated the rapid callus growth and that rough, bristling surface is hard for a bird to clean.

As more poo built up on his feet, Cloud grew more callus in response.

Whiich gave his feet more rough, hard to clean surface for more poo to gather on...

Like his Grandmothers’ now that they are clean, Cloud’s calluses will dry up and flake off.

But this was an interesting lesson for me in the interplay of different genetic traits that it may not be intuitive to look for when blending different breeds.

[notdingalingalingalingrita]

WAKE UP BABE NEW EMOJI LORE JUST DROPPED

[image id: an image of an id. the new id emoji specifically. it has a picture of the nongenered face emoji with the name “jo appleseed”. underneath it lists the phone number “438-123-4567”, the address “125 main st.” and the city “City Name, CA, 95014”. the signature is illegible.]

[selenashires]

People need to stop asking me about having a boyfriend and asking why I dont have one. When I reply with "I don't want one" stop asking me why I am fine on my own I don't want to share my life with someone I barely have time for myself also I'm an asexual who prefers loners of both genders and nongeners that made more sense in my head

[theshipscloset]

Wait, Requiem for Methuselah was NOT a Gene episode?!

Might I request a simple rant someday explaining the Season 3 issues and like a list of Nongene episodes? Because though I personally like some of them, I admit KS wise they were always a bit lacking or even flat out ODD at times...

It wasn’t! Given the end of that episode it does kinda blow your mind, right?

Roddenberry basically tried to bluff his way into a better timeslot for the show and the network called him on it, forcing him to leave or lose all credibility. This happened between seasons two and three, so season three is almost entirely without Roddenberry’s influence. (I say almost because they did let him come back for the final episode, Turnabout Intruder. They may have technically kept him on as a consultant but god knows they ignored him if they did.)

Non-Gene episodes are often criticized for lack of Kirk/Spock focus and out-of-character behavior (in addition to just some Wild Shit). After they ditched Roddenberry and the show was under new management, they brought in a bunch of brand new writers who had never worked on the show before and stopped hiring the ones who had. Without Roddenberry’s guidance and perfectionism, all the newbies basically trashed the joint. Kirk started to be written more like the fanon Kirk that endures even today, Spock was suddenly talking about Pon Farr (Pon goddamn Farr) with total strangers, and the show’s focus shifted to style over characters and their relationships.* Even non-shippers readily agree that the lack of the K/S dynamic is a big part of why those episodes suck because, no matter how you interpret them, they were the central relationship on the show. (With, of course, the frequent and much loved presence of McCoy to round out the triumvirate.)

Actually, in double checking stuff for this reply I’ve had to adjust my understanding of season three a bit. Gene Coon wrote the script for two episodes and the general story for two more, but he wasn’t a producer for season three. I thought he had a hand in the first eight or so episodes, turns out he only had a hand in two of those (the other two he worked on came later). This means The Enterprise Incident  and The Empath were done entirely without the Genes, the former being a genuinely solid episode of Trek and the latter being gay as fuck. However, this also explains Elaan of Troyius and especially The Paradise Syndrome--two episodes I was stunned to think were worked on by Coon.

*There were fun and silly episodes under Roddenberry, obvs, but they were mixed in with serious/character driven episodes. The sillier ones were Coon’s influence btw.

Anyway, here are the episodes touched by a Gene in season three:

Spectre of the Gun (Coon)

Spock’s Brain (Coon)

Wink of an Eye (Coon)

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (Coon)

Turnabout Intruder (Roddenberry)

I’ve only seen Wink of an Eye and Let That Be Your Last Battlefield like one time since I thought neither Gene worked on them. Guess I’ll add those to the rewatch list for the Youtube channel (and take away Elaan and Paradise...thank god.)

[the-bmood]

My friend found my blog ( @chiken-nongens ) which was a backup of my main blog ( @chimkem-nunget ) where i posted about my friends and they read it all so i guess we’re starting afresh

[fredahahn95-blog]

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[jappumble]

As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster — which comes in handy when there's a lot of information to take down. But it turns out there are still advantages to doing things the old-fashioned way. For one thing, research shows that laptops and tablets have a tendency to be distracting — it's so easy to click over to Facebook in that dull lecture. And a study has shown that the fact that you have to be slower when you take notes by hand is what makes it more useful in the long run. In the study published in Psychological Science, Pam A. Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel M. Oppenheimer of the University of California, Los Angeles sought to test how note-taking by hand or by computer affects learning. "When people type their notes, they have this tendency to try to take verbatim notes and write down as much of the lecture as they can," Mueller tells NPR's Rachel Martin. "The students who were taking longhand notes in our studies were forced to be more selective — because you can't write as fast as you can type. And that extra processing of the material that they were doing benefited them." Mueller and Oppenheimer cited that note-taking can be categorized two ways: generative and nongenerative. Generative note-taking pertains to "summarizing, paraphrasing, concept mapping," while nongenerative note-taking involves copying something verbatim. And there are two hypotheses to why note-taking is beneficial in the first place. The first idea is called the encoding hypothesis, which says that when a person is taking notes, "the processing that occurs" will improve "learning and retention." The second, called the external-storage hypothesis, is that you learn by being able to look back at your notes, or even the notes of other people. Because people can type faster than they write, using a laptop will make people more likely to try to transcribe everything they're hearing. So on the one hand, Mueller and Oppenheimer were faced with the question of whether the benefits of being able to look at your more complete, transcribed notes on a laptop outweigh the drawbacks of not processing that information. On the other hand, when writing longhand, you process the information better but have less to look back at.

Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away

[vesaniapicz-blog]

#nature #photography #adventure #trees #river #forest #sky #landscape #new #instagood #soydeconce #concepciónadicto Fotografo: @zommusvesania (at Valle Nongen)

[nullarysources]

Viviane Callier for Quanta Magazine:

For the half past century or more, most biologists agreed with the conclusions of the geneticist Susumu Ohno in his influential 1970 book Evolution by Gene Duplication. While acknowledging that the first genes had to come from somewhere, he wrote: "Yet, in a strict sense, nothing in evolution is created de novo. Each new gene must have arisen from an existing gene..."

This explanation seemed sound because truly de novo genes would have to emerge through evolution acting on the abundant "nongenic" DNA (often dismissed as junk) between genes. It was hard to imagine how that could happen. Cells' fitness generally depends on the smooth functioning of networks of genes that have coevolved to work together over millions of years. Genes derived from other genes have a better chance of blending into those networks. In comparison, the fairly random transcripts from nascent de novo genes seem as though they should be, at best, inconsequential and more likely harmful to cells' prospects. "The received wisdom is that random sequences are more likely to mess things up than to make them better," said Aoife McLysaght, a geneticist at Trinity College Dublin.

But in the past 15 years, evidence for de novo genes has steadily accumulated, so much so that the debate has shifted from whether de novo genes exist to how much they contribute to evolution and adaptation.

All of my genes definitely came from the garbage, so this sounds right to me