Reality Checks: Sexy Sweaters,Tasing and Miranda Rights, and Death by Meteorite

Elizabeth — February 9, 2016

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Simon Fraser U is suggesting that saving energy makes female professors more desirable for their male students. (via Inside Higher Ed)
Tased suspects are more likely to wave Miranda rights. (via Ars Technica)
We have now had possibly the first human death from meteorite. (via The Mary Sue)
Australia fires 110 climate scientists. (via Scientific American)

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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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