Stand with Meenu Batra: A Call to Action for Language Professionals - American Translators Association (ATA) Leading language organizations respond to the detention of interpreter Meenu Batra and are urging you to take action.

This is one case among many of ICE illegal detention. I am a member of ATA.

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Nutrition Research Arrives Aboard Space Station - NASA To solve this problem, NASA and its partners are conducting research aboard the International Space Station to better understand how the space environment

It's an open secret that astronauts don't always eat well. The problem hasn't been solved for long flights, like going to Mars.

Live from the Circle Garden - Chicago Botanic Garden YouTube video by chicagobotanicgarden

Live from the Circle Garden - Chicago Botanic Garden - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLjH...

In Letter to Trump, UUA Demands End to Iran War and Calls Out Extremist Christian Nationalism in U.S. Military The war “is being justified by fundamentalist religious traditions that are antithetical to the values of millions of American believers,” the letter states.

My faith leaders weigh in.

The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin ...

The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest protopianprize.com

Medieval Solar Storm Detected Through Tree Rings and Historical Records - Medievalists.net www.medievalists.net/2026/04/medi...

Whimsical Metal Carnivorous Plant Garden Stake Give your garden something a little more unexpected. This whimsical carnivorous plant metal garden stake is made for people who want their outdoor space to feel fun, creative, and full of personality....

Whimsy or warning? titlemedle.com/products/whi...

These Are the 12 Most Dangerous Plants Hiding in Plain Sight. How Many Can You Identify? These 12 plants are among the most dangerous in North America. Here are some expert tips on how to identify and avoid them.

These plants hate you.

To Defeat Water | Lorelei Signal If you curse Poseidon, he might curse you back, time and time again. And life after life, you can fight back.

To Defeat Water | Lorelei Signal
www.loreleisignal.com/to-defeat-wa...

DERROTAR AL AGUA 150

My short story “To Defeat Water” has been translated into Spanish as “Derrotar al agua” and published by Microficciones y Cuentos. The site is run by Sergio Gaut vel Hartman, one of the founding fathers of Spanish-language science fiction. A link to the story in English is in the comments.

Hallucinated References: Five Excuses for Academic Misconduct When I proposed rejecting papers with hallucinated references, the support was overwhelming. But the critical voices revealed five argument patterns: from AI hype through TINA rhetoric to nihilism.

"Defensive deflection, TINA rhetoric, resignation, victim mentality, nihilism. These aren’t fringe phenomena, but precisely the arguments we must contend with, again and again, whenever we talk about AI." dorotheabaur.ch/en/texts-and...

It took a turn I never saw coming.

What if a Flower Never Needed a Pollinator at All? New research shows that one small mountain orchid secures reproduction before its flowers even open and may fare better selfing than crossing with its neighbours.

No bugs, thanks, too risky. www.botany.one/what-if-a-fl...

Chickpeas can grow in moon dirt and make seeds Chickpeas produced seeds in simulated lunar soil, offering clues for future space farming.

Let's go to the Moon and eat hummus. www.sciencenews.org/article/chic...

A mysterious floral artist brings beauty to fire escapes — and dumpsters Mr. Flower Fantastic is a graffiti artist turned floral designer who keeps his identity a secret. His new show is an ode to NYC in orchids. Oh, and did we mention he's allergic to flowers?

A graffiti artist discovers flowers! www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

I don't have the time to fix their mistakes, and I'm certainly not doing it for free.

I learned surprising things about myself from my Grokipedia entry, and I wrote about it at my blog. sueburke.site/2026/04/01/i...

It's hot and smells like rotting flesh. Clever early Spring strategy to attract flies for pollination.

A wildflower survived a historic megadrought. Scientists now think they know how | CNN Wild scarlet monkeyflowers in California survived a historic drought by relying on a rapid evolution, marking the first time the process has been observed in the wild.

“Evolutionary rescue occurs when the few individuals that are left have the right genetic makeup to do better than the ones that died, so they do well or thrive within these new conditions, so the population inches back from extinction.” edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/s...

A protest sign that says "No Faux King Way"

From my neighborhood No Kings rally

Quote from SUE BURKE author of Semiosis and Dual Memory: Now hear this: New Year, New You: A Speculative Anthology of Reinvention is a great way to start your 2025 reading. It offers two dozen science fiction and fantasy short stories united by the idea of personal change. Themes include time travel, Greek myth, fairy tales, foreseen death, odd dystopias, programmed memory loss, and manufactured life. Many are quite short, and the tone varies from playful to horrific. I enjoyed them all, like eating a box of chocolates or bento box, and was sometimes left a little breathless.

@sueburke.bsky.social, author of SEMIOSIS and DUAL MEMORY described this collection of stories as akin to "eating a box of chocolates" with their range of themes and tone. Mmmmm.

semiosispax.com/2025/01/03/g...

My 50-word science fiction short story “Good Boy” has been published: 50 Give or Take Story No.1967 preview.mailerlite.com/s7k8d9b5y3/2...

📗📘 Story Bundle is in "da" house 📘📗
Extremely happy to report that my eco-horror novel CHLOROPHILIA, translated by @sueburke.bsky.social , is part of Story Bundle. Curated by the one and only @lavietidhar.bsky.social, the line-up is by spectacular & talented authors

storybundle.com/blog/2026wor...

If the giant sequoia is dying out, why are there tens of thousands of seedlings and saplings? Thousands of giant sequoia seedlings sprouted after a fire swept a grove in the Sierra in 2021. Will they replace the behemoths that died or become extinct?

Does nature need help? - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/california/s...

NO KINGS Edgewater neighborhood Chicago · No Kings This is our 3rd rally listed here. We are a community of seniors, many who cannot make it to the big rally downtown. All ages are invited to join us. **We have the power and are claiming it togeth...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Edgewater neighborhood Chicago” - sign up now to join me. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

A bug-eyed beige yam mascot poses with raised arms in a hallway in front of a shuttered store.

Jinenger, an eccentric, energetic mountain yam, is an unofficial mascot for Shiroi City.

Sudoku Garden National (US) Cereal Day

Can you correctly place all six kinds of plants in this Sudoku Garden? www.botany.one/sudoku-garde...

From Museum Drawers, Scientists Uncover Our Sooty Past From the Spring 2018 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. So an art historian and an orni­thologist walk into a museum... It sounds like the setup for a punchline, but when Carl Fuldner and...

Dirty birds. | All About Birds www.allaboutbirds.org/news/from-mu...

Decades-old palm trees in Rio de Janeiro flower for the first — and only — time Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These palms were introduced by landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx in the 1960s.

Very big flowers. apnews.com/article/braz...