Reality Checks: Sleeping with Half a Brain, Fashion Forward Hijabs, and Marriage as Penalty for Poor Grades

Elizabeth — October 27, 2015

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Crocodiles can sleep with only half their brains at a time. (via The BBC)
A profile of child brides in boarding school. (via NPR)
A Swedish fashion designer is selling haute couture hijabs. (via Al Jazeera)
Extinction of large animals is bad for ecosystems in many ways, including the reduction in amounts of feces. (via Reuters)

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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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