Reality Checks: Good News Mostly, Coffee, Cheese, Privacy, and 1984

Elizabeth — January 26, 2017

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Because I am having trouble dealing with the news of the last few days, these reality checks will be the good parts of reality.

The physics of coffee. (via Scientificamerican blogs)
Court upholds ruling that law enforcement cannot seize data from servers, because seizing a disk is not the same as seizing a book. (via Ars Technica)
Monks in India are actually being slightly useful by making cheap cheese. (via NPR)
I couldn’t find a fourth happy story, so: Copies of 1984 are selling out in the era of alternative fact. (via The Mary Sue)

Featured image credit: Zoer 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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