The Bay Area's Kohl Mansion was home to a family destroyed by tragedy The family lived in the opulent mansion for only two years.

"A homicidal maid was the downfall of a family of Bay Area millionaires"
That's a banger of a headline!
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Have a look at spring growth We are all paying attention to the glory of spring flowers like the pawpaw we looked at yesterday, or the amazing redbuds from last week.

We are all paying attention to spring trees, but flowers seem to get all the attention. Vegetative growth, as buds open and leaves enlarge, are doing complicated, interesting things, and they are certainly worth a close look.

What’s in a Name? For These Snails, Legal Protection

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/s...

Study Finds Each Protein in the Epigenome Produces a Different Pattern of Gene Expression A new study finds the proteins responsible for controlling which genes are expressed in a genome do more than simply turn a gene on or off.

We've known that the proteins in the epigenome control DNA expression, but we thought they were just on-off switches.
They're not. They're more.

This is pretty remarkable.
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Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities By this Interim Final Rule ("IFR"), the Department of Justice ("Department") is revising the regulations implementing title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") to extend the compliance d...

After months months of wailing and gnashing of teeth, lo, in the 11th hour, a global extension appears.

Who could have predicted such a thing? (he asks fasceciously)

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🧪 🦟 🎨Based on a recent post by @nmoiroux.bsky.social‬
I decided to post something I did a couple of years ago on the bird site. Enjoy! Keep reading for amazing mosquito paintings!
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"He’s gripping his coffee cup like it owes him money."
I really like that description of the tension in the moments before a shot. 🙂

I’ve fired one of America’s most powerful lasers – here’s what a shot day looks like It would take hours to set up the perfect shot at the Texas Petawatt Laser facility. Once it fired, the beam released an incredible amount of energy.

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Transformers! More than meets the eye!

This VERY ANGRY ROCK is actually a brown box crab (Echidnocerus foraminatus), a king crab found off the Pacific coast of North America.

The impressively compact shape is a defense posture, but there's an even neater feature not shown here.

(📷:zedasd)

Is there some reason why 'The tomato is actually fruit, not a vegetable!' has been a go-to revelation for decades, while the fact that the exact same applies to the cucumber, its unshakable comrade-in-salad, is never brought up?

I look forward to using your blogpost as a teaching exercise in the fall for my graduate seminar on "communicating science." It's an excellent illustration for several of the topics I try to emphasize for new graduate students. 🧪🧬 🖥️

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Where Are April Showers? Nearly Half Of U.S. Population In Drought Drought currently affects much of the U.S. Is relief on the horizon or will it get worse?

My deep dive on the current U.S. drought and what's next for all of us.

Down ⬇️
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How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All

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'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers say Archaeologists have so far uncovered

Huge hidden cave under castle with prehistoric hippo bones 'once in a lifetime' find. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wyoming lake’s unnerving rusty-red water persists as experts offer explanations When the ice melted in late March, the striking burnt-red color returned to the fringes of the Wind River Range more pronounced than ever.

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Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today STANFORD, CA—Calling it a “pretty slow one” as far as natural selection and genetic drift were concerned, biologists from Stanford University confirmed Tuesday that not much evolution happened today. ...

Biologists Confirm Not Much Evolution Happened Today

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San Diego Now Has So Much Water That It’s Selling It With the Colorado River in crisis, Arizona and Nevada are turning to an unconventional life line: the ocean water off California’s golden beaches.

This is an example of what can be achieved when people decide to deal seriously with water supply problems. Given the increasing likelihood for long-term mega-drought in the western US, time's a wasting for everyone else. www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

US hobby breeders develop egg-sized watermelons for vertical farming and high-density production Watermelon production has traditionally posed challenges for greenhouse and vertical farming systems due to extensive vine growth and large fruit size. A newly developed ultra-small…

I love that this was a plant breeding project driven by a high school student with help from her mother. #PlantBreeding #Horticulture 🌱🧪🧬 www.hortidaily.com/article/9829...

Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism:

merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

Sonny Perdue announces retirement from USG Much of Perdue’s tenure has focused on affordability, graduating students and using state universities as a tool to power Georgia’s economy.

Former Gov. Sonny Perdue, the first Republican governor of Georgia since Reconstruction, just announced that he is retiring from his role as chancellor of the state’s higher education system. #gapol

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healthy turnout at a Rock Lobsters hockey game at the Arena at the Classic Center, Athens, GA.

Man it's gotta be rough when your attendance numbers can't even come close to a minor league hockey team. in the south. Pic of a Rock Lobsters game at the same venue.

Unlocking the secret of the root-knot nematode’s lifeline | CAES Field Report Researchers at the University of Georgia have identified the molecular "blueprints" of the feeding tubes used by root-knot nematodes to siphon nutrients from crops.

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Presentation of a US flag to Dr.bGale Buchanan by a representative from Congressman Austin Scott's office.

@universityofga.bsky.social

Had the honor this morning to attend Dr. Gale A. Buchanan's exit seminar on the UGA Tifton Campus. He leaves a giant legacy at Tifton, at UGA at USDA, and on US agriculture.

One of the wilder midterm stories: former Dolton, IL Democratic Mayor Tiffany Henyard—dogged by FBI probes, alleged misuse of funds, lawsuits, deficits, and extortion-style accusations—lost re-election 88–12% in 2025.

Now she’s running in Georgia in 2026… as a Republican.

Blue-green glowing larvae that look like strands of beads hang down from a cave ceiling.

Blue-green glowing larvae that look like strands of beads hang down from a cave ceiling.

Behold Arachnocampa luminosa, aka the New Zealand glowworm. The larval forms use their blue-green bioluminescence to lure prey into silk snares (meanwhile, the adults take the form of tiny gnats).