Reality Checks: Human Hibernation, Heads May have been Transplanted, Inappropriate Questions, and Ancient Warfare

Elizabeth — January 21, 2016

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When it’s dark and lonely, humans can sleep for days. (via Science Alert)
A representative visiting students on Planed Parenthood’s Teen Lobbying Day asked the students if they were virgins. Like that’s important. (via Tri-City Herald)
A scientist claims to have successfully transplanted a monkey head, but hasn’t actually supplied proof to accompany the press release. (via Vice)
Based on a site in Kenya, we were having warfare around 10,000 years ago. We suck. (via IFL Science)

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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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