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Why Pain Hurts So Good, Growing Mutant Gardens, Emo Teen Puppies

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Evolution of Plants - Irradiation and Genetic Engineering

Atomic gardening is still one means true method of getting new kinds of plants. Modern genetic engineering has made gama gardens pretty obsolete. Radiation doesn't make evolution happen faster, because the natural selection of beneficial mutation is what actually changes species.

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