Reality Checks: Kilowatt Usage of US Holiday Lights vs Tanzania, Beethoven Prize, Dry Ice on Mars, and Enceladus Pictures

Elizabeth — December 24, 2015

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Because I love feel good stories, a Palestinian teen pianist has won the Beehthoven Prize for human rights(via Al Jazeera)
Which uses more kilowatt hours, US holiday lights or the entire country of Tanzania? Spoiler: It’s not Tanzania (via NPR)
Dry ice may be responsible for some of the geological formations on Mars. (via Christian Science Monitor)
Pictures from Cassini’s flyby of Enceladus. (via Nasa)

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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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