Reality Checks: Unendangering Things and Gay Marriage

Elizabeth — November 17, 2015

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The news is terrible lately, so all reality checks today are good news

The Delmarva fox squirrel is no longer endangered. (via Times Gazette)
Gourds and squash were saved from extinction by early humans. (via i4u)
Ireland is celebrating its first gay marriages! (via the Washington Post)

That’s all the good news I could find, send me more!

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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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