Reality Checks: the Espionage Act, Face-Eating Pet, Title IX Turns 45, and Upside-Down Lightning

• How the Espionage Act became a tool of repression. (via JSTOR Daily)
• Would your pet eat if you died? (A word of warning: This gets a little gross.) (via National Geographic)
• Title IX, the law that is supposed to ensure equal educational opportunities for girls and boys, turns 45 this week. (via Feministing)
• What happens when lightning doesn’t hit the ground. (via Popular Science)

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