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Word’s the Word 
November 29, 2024 0 5  
New Books: Local Authors / Local Interest 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 29, 2024 0  
This is TNT’s annual holiday season round up of new books by local authors and new books on subjects of interest to our local community. For more local books published earlier this year, check out our summer reads list...
Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0  
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
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Holiday Quarantine 

Saori Wall, December 4, 2020 0 5 min read  
“This is important!” Mrs. Shibuya, my flustered biology teacher’s words echo these times.  Sitting in our high school science lab, she was particularly enthused about new discoveries in RNA sequencing. Monoclonal antibodies, single cell composition, Ro or ‘R naught’...
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Time for the Holidays 

Suzanne Guldimann, December 3, 2020 0 3 min read  
California continues to grapple with rapidly increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases and record numbers of hospitalizations—an increase of 89 percent in the last two weeks statewide. California Governor Gavin Newsom is cautioning that if the current surge continues, hospitalizations...