Reality Checks: Fermat’s Last Theorem, NASA Burns Things, New FDA Rules, and the Historical Precedence for Trump

Elizabeth — March 17, 2016

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Fermat’s last theorem has been solved! (via VOA)
NASA will be setting a cargo ship on fire in SPACE (via The Verge)
The FDA changes a rule to try to prevent Martin Shkreli from Martin Shkreli-ing(via Ars Technica)
Putting Donald Trump into a historical context of US electoral awfulness. (via Vice)

Featured image credit: Philadelphia riots 1844, public domain lithograph

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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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