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Reality Checks: Southern Women, New Species of Homo Sapiens, and the Magellanic Clouds

— September 10, 2015
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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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3 Comments

  1. Alex Kent Kalel Reynolds
    September 13, 2015 at 4:10 pm —

    The Magellanic Clouds are gorgeous- did you know they contain the largest stars that have ever been discovered? Look up R136a and the Doradus Nebula!

  2. Alex Kent Kalel Reynolds
    September 13, 2015 at 4:11 pm —

    I find the new human discovery fascinating too- one minor point though- Elephants also grieve and bury their dead and return to the grave sites year after year

  3. Elizabeth
    September 13, 2015 at 4:27 pm —

    I didn’t know either of those things, thank you!

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