Reality Checks: Nuclear Fusion, Vatican Back-Track, “the Williams Brothers,” and Don’t Be a Douchebag

• Don’t get too excited about nuclear fusion just yet. (via io9)
• The Vatican may not be so open to gay and divorced people, after all. (via The Atlantic)
• The head of the Russian Tennis Federation was fined after making sexist comments about Venus and Serena Williams. (via The Root)
• Is ‘douchebag’ the white racial slur we’ve been looking for? (via Gawker)

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