This story is absolutely wild. Did you know that avocados change sex over the course of a day? And that it's controlled by a single ancient balanced polymorphism? This is flat our crazy

The first four games of the series are all on sale for about this price at Amazon. The newest one is the only one not on sale.

Thank you. I had looked there but clearly missed it, despite it being quite obvious once you explained it. Thanks for your help, and for making a fantastic app!

Is it possible to disable avatars from the "plays" list? The plays tab is now dominated by green blobs rather than gameplay information. It's great that you have implemented this for people that want to use them, but I really hope there's a way to disable them for people not using avatars.

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.”

I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

ABA It has been three weeks since Inauguration Day. Most Americans recognize that newly elected leaders bring change. That is expected. But most Americans also expect that changes will take place in accordance with the rule of law and in an orderly manner that respects the lives of affected individuals and the work they have been asked to perform. Instead, we see wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself, such as attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize those who support lawful programs to eliminate bias and enhance diversity. We have seen attempts at wholesale dismantling of departments and entities created by Congress without seeking the required congressional approval to change the law. There are efforts to dismiss employees with little regard for the law and protections they merit, and social media announcements that disparage and appear to be motivated by a desire to inflame without any stated factual basis. This is chaotic. It may appeal to a few. But it is wrong. And most Americans recognize it is wrong. It is also contrary to the rule of law. The American Bar Association supports the rule of law. That means holding governments, including our own, accountable under law. We stand for a legal process that is orderly and fair. We have consistently urged the administrations of both parties to adhere to the rule of law. We stand in that familiar place again today. And we do not stand alone. Our courts stand for the rule of law as well.

Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.

‘It’s a Circus’: Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world’s top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge.

Exclusive: "It's chaos." The world's most sophisticated weather agency struggles to comprehend what it's supposed to do now. By @laurenthal.bsky.social and @weathersullivan.bsky.social
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Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article) Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that.” Story by @by-cjewett.bsky.social on the new NIH policy that will shrivel support for research. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

I cannot see how this will be anything but devestating to biomedical research in the United States www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

My grandparents were Pentecostal. You can't escape that religion quickly enough.

I live my life by this philosophy.

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After you broke in with a successful novel, did you return to your unsuccessful novels (and maybe revise and try again with them) or just move on? Do you think those first four novels didn't succeed because they weren't good enough, or just unlucky (which wasn't a problem after you had some success)