Reality Checks: Giant Crocodiles, Cell Phone Metadata for Studying Wealth, the Coffee of the Civil War, and Supercomputers for Wyoming

Elizabeth — January 14, 2016

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In non dinosaur news, a giant crocodile (sister clade to dinosaurs) has been discovered. (via CBC)
Studying wealth distribution via cell phone usage (via NYTimes)
The state of coffee during the US civil war. (via The Post and Courier)
Wyoming was the first state to reject any science standards that included teaching climate change as a fact, but they are getting a totally sexy supercomputer to study climate change anyway. I’m jealous. (via CSMonitor)

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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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