Reality Checks: Ending Child Marriage in Virginia, Electrode Experiments in the 70s, Sex Scandals from the 30s, and

Elizabeth — July 7, 2016

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Virginia has outlawed child marriage, regardless of parental consent. Now child marriage is only legal in 49 states in the U. S. (via Washington Post)
Gay “cure” experimentation from the 70s. (via Ars Technica)
Dinosaurs sometimes had tumors. (via Livescience)
A real life gender bent trope. Not news, but a great stoy about a woman who kept a lover in the attic. (via Atlas Obscura)

Featured image credit: Kristoffer Dominic Amora via Flickr

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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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Reality Checks: Roller Coaster Physics, NASA's Longest-Serving Female Employee, Nobel Laureates for GMOs, and Life-Size Noah's Ark

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