Reality Checks: Tailless Comets, Biometrics and Legality, the Snake Man, and Fighting to Even Talk about Abortions

Elizabeth — May 3, 2016

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Studying a tailless comet, because such a thing exists! (via Washington Post)
A woman has been ordered to use her fingerprint to unlock a phone, because apparently that is legally different from providing a pass code. (via Ars Technica)
Working to provide affordable antivenom. (via Al Jazeera)
Fighting an order to stop talking about abortion as a good thing. (via NYT)

Featured image credit:Chester Zoo via Flickr

Elizabeth

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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Reality Checks: Tailless Comets, Biometrics and Legality, the Snake Man, and Fighting to Even Talk about Abortions

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