Reality Checks: Kidney Stone Roller coasters, Plutonic Oceans, Electric Textiles, and the Staten Island Ferry Disaster

Elizabeth — September 27, 2016

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Roller coasters, at least one specific one, may help with passage of small kidney stones. (via LiveScience )
Pluto may have a liquid ocean. (via Engadget )
Electricity-generating fabrics. (via Ars Technica)
There is a monument to the nonexistent ferry that was attacked by an equally nonexistent octopus. I love people. (via The Gothamist)

Featured image credit:Jacob Reyes 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: Kidney Stone Roller coasters, Plutonic Oceans, Electric Textiles, and the Staten Island Ferry Disaster

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