Controversial monument and KKK hangout reopens for Fourth of July

Despite public outrage and calls for its removal, the world’s largest Confederate monument has reopened just in time for the July 4 celebrations. Featuring a nine-story bas-relief stone of the Confederate “heroes” and slave owners, General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial …

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They may not be snakes, but these amphibians have a poisonous sting

An enlarged image of the mouth of a ringed cecilium, Siphonops annulatus, reveals snake-shaped dental glands. Researchers from the Butantan Institute in Brazil and Utah State University say the glands may indicate an early evolutionary design of the organs of oral venom. Credit: Butantan Institute, Brazil. Scientists from Utah State …

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