Reality Checks: The First Woman M.D., State’s Rights, Saying No, and Rosetta’s Comet

• The first woman to earn her medical in the United States was admitted as a joke. (via Smithsonian Magazine)
• When the South wasn’t so gung-ho for “state’s rights.” (via Politico)
• A study indicates that teaching girls to assertively decline sexual advances in a virtual environment may lessen the long-term effects of sexual victimization. (via Raw story)
• Rosetta’s comet is even weirder than we thought. (via Discovery News)

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