Reality Checks: Rebuttals to Studies, Spilling Coffee, Lightning vs Reindeer, and Depression Treatment Rates

Elizabeth — August 30, 2016

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The rebutting part of science isn’t working so well. (via Ars Technica)
Why we spill coffee. (via Science Direct )
Incidence of treatment for depression doesn’t correlate to incidence of depression. (via NPR)
Lightning kills reindeer in Norway. War on Christmas? (via NYT)

Featured image credit: John Fowler 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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