Reality Checks: Spoiler Alerts from Google, Terror Birds, and Disability Representation in the Turkish Parliament

Elizabeth — April 13, 2015

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A woman with disabilities is a member of Turkey’s Parliament! First time ever! (via UN Women)
Google is patenting an automated system to protect us from spoilers. (via Ars Technica)
The NYT is reporting on mental illness in the prison system. (via NYT. )
More Terror Birds discovered (via iflscience.com).

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Featured image credit: Cover image of JVP April 2015 issue: Llallawavis scagliai / Artwork provided by H. Santiago Druetta

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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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