Reality Checks: Victorian Lady Opera, Malaria Vaccines, Sleeping Sickness, and the Beauty of the Periodic Table

Elizabeth — July 28, 2015

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Residents of a Kazakh village close to an old uranium mine suffer from a mysterious sleeping sickness. (via The Guardian)
The first vaccine for malaria, or any parasitic rather than viral disease ever for that matter, has been approved for use! (via Al Jazeera)
Bard College is reviving the opera of an amazing Victorian woman (via NPR)
Oliver Sacks, one of my heroes, is dying of cancer, and he wrote a beautiful article about where he finds comfort. (via NYTimes)

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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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