Reality Checks: Deadly Homeopathy, Hidden Wine, Ancient Human Ancestors, and Data Windfall from Los Alamos

Elizabeth — January 31, 2017

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Elevated levels of deadly nightshade in homeopathic teething gel. (via Ars Technica)
The hidden wine cellars beneath the Brooklyn Bridge. (via NPR)
Meeting some ancient deuterostome fossils. Except they don’t seem to have an anus. Weird. (via NYtimes)
16 years of solar weather data(via Science Mag)

Featured image credit: Rictor Norton and David Allen via flickr

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Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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Reality Checks: Deadly Homeopathy, Hidden Wine, Ancient Human Ancestors, and Data Windfall from Los Alamos

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