Reality Checks: Vaccinating After Outbreaks, Measuring Medicine, Ballet History, and Cockroaches for Valentine’s

Elizabeth — February 12, 2019

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People start vaccinating in face of measles outbreak. (via Ars Technica)
Measuring medicine for young children. (via NPR)
First Hispanic principal ballerina in the US. (via ABC)
A zoo will name a cockroach after your ex and feed it to a meerkat on live tv for valentine’s day. (via CBS News)

Featured image credit: Michelle Ress 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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