Reality Checks: FGM as Cure for Sexual weakness, Really Big Dead Sharks, Nobel Autophagy, and the New Healthy

Elizabeth — October 4, 2016

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An Egyptian MP says that because Egypt’s men are “sexually weak” women should go get their genitals mutilated. (via Egyptianstreets)
Work on autophagy has won a novel prize. (via Ars Technica)Red
Redefining healthy. (via NPR)
Extinct 12 foot sharks! (via Livescience)

Featured image credit: Conal Gallagher 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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