Reality Checks: Fake Boyfriends, Solar Plants Causing Fires, and Crocodiles Away from the Nile

Elizabeth — May 24, 2016

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Fake boyfriends for hire in China. (via Al Jazeera)
Accidental fires at solar plants. Oops. (via Ars Technica)
Nile crocodiles in Florida(via NYT)

Featured image credit: Nemodus Photos 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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