Eco warriors and politics

• Source: Tennessee School voucher bill not expected to pass House finance subcommittee Tuesday (TN Lookout)
• Republican National Committee courts election conspiracy theorists to help watch polls (TN Lookout)
• Knoxville lawyer’s PAC to fight political extremism, spent one-third of the money with own firm (TN Lookout)
• The parallels between hockey and political decoding (TN Lookout)
• Trump’s repeated escapes from political damage to be tested in NYC trial (TN Lookout)
• Stockard on the Stump: Bulso doubles down for first-cousin marriage (TN Lookout)
• Tennessee statewide school voucher plan stalls as legislature enters final weeks (TN Lookout)
• Top photos from April 8-11 at the Tennessee Capitol (TN Lookout)

Science and stuff

• This robot can tell when you’re about to smile — and smile back (Science News Daily)
• This newfound longhorn beetle species is unusually fluffy (Science News Daily)
• 50 years ago, scientists wondered how birds find their way home (Science News Daily)
• Scientists find a naturally occurring molecule that forms a fractal (Science News Daily)
• In a first, these crab spiders appear to collaborate, creating camouflage (Science News Daily)
• This marine alga is the first known eukaryote to pull nitrogen from air (Science News Daily)
• 50 years ago, scientists found a lunar rock nearly as old as the moon (Science News Daily)
• How a sugar acid crucial for life could have formed in interstellar clouds (Science News Daily)
• Teens are using an unregulated form of THC. Here’s what we know (Science News Daily)
• Immune cells’ intense reaction to the coronavirus may lead to pneumonia (Science News Daily)

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