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Tariff to retaliate on tech firms doing business in france like google and facebook. the french officials say the leaders agreed to delay tariffs until the end of the year so the two countries can continue negotiating a digital services tax. patients at risk for heart problems should be careful about using marijuana. a new report in the journal of american cardiology says there could be a connection between pot smoking and a range of heart problems. and because people who smoke weed typically hold the smoke in longer it may deliver more toxic chemicals than cigarettes. according to the repor...

>> reporter: blue bonnets are the texas state flower, and every spring they cast a spell. lupines so beguiling you just have to take a picture. >> look at mommy. good job. yea! >> reporter: in texas posing with the blue bonnets is a rite of spring. little shiloh and her mom karen morgan are no exceptions. >> she saw the blue bonnets and the first thing she said is, oh my gosh. and she started running through them and rolling around in them. >> they have this magical charisma people love. >> reporter: andrea is director of horticulture at the ladybird johnson wild flower center in austin. lady ...

People. and the joy of the wildflowers and the joy of nature. >> reporter: so lured by the lupines they come. a picture's a must. but there's indian paintbrush, too, and so much more if you stop to look. >> it's magical, you know? just one little minute of spring. >> reporter: though texas is still in a drought, winter rains have brought a bumper crop of wildflowers this year. our gratitude to ladybird, who used to say, where flowers bloom, so does hope. harry smith, nbc news, austin. that will do it for us on this monday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watch...

Patterns in the sky and on earth, the way water moved and rippled, the way things grew, the simple pine cone, a fern, a pomegranate, and they thought about the basic truths these things might represent. >> these symmetries can all be shuffled, spun on any point and they align again with themselves. so if you stretched them out, for them they pointed to infinity. >> we will understand all things. >> through contemplating sacred geometry. >> how did nature unfold, pattern itself? could the basic designs of nature, even if divine, be replicated in this magnificent structure? trying to solve the r...

Their mathematics were trying to figure out how nature worked, particularly the square roots and the repetition of pattern. >> they saw mathematical patterns in the sky and on earth, the way water moved and rippled, the way things grew, the simple pine cone, a fern, a pomegranate, and they thought about the basic truths these things might represent. >> these symmetries can all be shuffled, spun on any point and they align again with themselves. so if you stretched them out, for them they pointed to infinity. >> we will understand all things. >> through contemplating sacred geometry. >> how did...