Reality Checks: The Last Shakers, Self-Inducing Abortions, Creating Thicker Arctic Ice, Strange Fruit at the Inauguration

Elizabeth — January 5, 2017

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The shaker religion is dying out. (via NPR)
How women seek abortions when it is illegal. (via Vice)
How to create thicker arctic ice. (via Ars Technica)
Rebecca Ferguson is willing to sing an anti-lynching song at Trump’s inauguration. (via theMarySue)

Featured image credit: Cindy Zackowitz

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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