Reality Checks: 3D Printed Turtle Jaws, Melting Ice Shelves, and Wyoming and Tanzania Dislike Data

Elizabeth — May 19, 2015

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A sea turtle gets a brand new jaw, thanks to 3d printers. (via The Verge)
Wyoming wants to make it illegal to “enter open land to take resource data.” Most of Wyoming’s land is publicly owned, incidentally. (via Vice)
Tanzania, meanwhile, would like only government approved statistics to be mentioned. (via The East African)
In terrifying news, a giant ice shelf in Antarctica is melting and expected to be gone by 2020 (via CNN)

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Elizabeth

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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