Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 10.15

vreify — October 15, 2013

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Go congratulate all the badass women you know for being alive and doing great things.

First fossilized mosquito with blood inside of it found in Montana. (via Western Digs)
Bonobos comfort each other ‘like humans.’ (via BBC News)
IBM’s plea for gender parity…in an ad from 1985. (via The Atlantic)
Maryville: Steubenville by another name. Trigger warning. (via Feministing)

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Vy is a recent graduate working in a neuroscience lab with children and monkeys. She likes sewing, knitting, lifting weights, and reading in her free time. Especially reading about science!

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