Reality Checks: Long-Distance Swimming, Women in Engineering, Proofreading, and Shark Week Lies

• Why aren’t women allowed to swim the 1,500 meter race in the Olympics? (via The New York Times)
• Work climate and lack of advancement opportunities are pushing women out of engineering. (via Think Progress)
• There’s a reason you can’t proofread your own writing. (via Wired)
• To get them involved in dubious “documentaries,” Shark Week lied to scientists. (via io9)

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