Reality Checks: Prison Debate, Free Internet for Africa (Assuming Satellite Receiver), and Julie D’Aubigny

Elizabeth — October 6, 2015

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A debate team made up of incarcerated men won a debate against Harvard’s debate team. (via Daily Kos)
Facebook is planning to beam free internet to sub-saharan Africa via satellite. (via CNN Money)
Vaccines still don’t cause autism. (via Ars Technica)
There is now a novel about my favorite opera singer, Julie d’Aubigny. I want to just be her. (via NPR)

Featured image credit: Julie d’Aubigny via Wikipedia

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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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