Reality Checks: A Bigger Stonehenge, Blackmailing Ashley Madison Users, and Cholera in Tanzania

Elizabeth — September 8, 2015

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A look at Bitcoin transactions to estimate the number of blackmail victims in the fallout from Ashley Madison. (via Ars Technica)
A bigger henge than Stonehenge has been discovered! (via USA Today)
Kim Davis has asked the Kentucky governor to free her. Can he actually do that? I am not a lawyer, but it’s not like she’s in jail due to criminal charges that can be pardoned. She’s in for contempt of a federal judge. (via CNN)
There’s been an outbreak of cholera in Tanzania. Thus far, eight people are dead. (via IPPmedia)

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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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Alex Kent Kalel Reynolds

September 13, 2015 at 4:13 pm — Log in to Reply

the bigger stonehenge (superhenge) has been there for 4,000 years underground but we just discovered it!

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