Reality Checks: Likelihood of Being Unarmed and Killed by Police, by Race, the Elderly Turn to Crime, and Chimpanzee Cooking

Elizabeth — June 4, 2015

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Driven by loneliness and poverty, the world’s elderly are increasingly turning to a life of crime. (via Bloomberg)
Chimps can grasp the concept of cooking. (via the Sydney Morning Heral)
Pluto’s Moons. Just plain weird. (via CBS news)
Twice as many unarmed black americans killed by police as unarmed white Americans. Fortunately, I’ve been told we live in a post racial society. (via The Guardian)

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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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