Reality Checks: Drug Resistant Malaria, Lost Continent under Mauritius, Peer Review by Gender, Brain Computer Interfaces for Locked-in Patients

Elizabeth — February 2, 2017

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Part of a continent got stuck under Mauritius. (via Techtimes)
Drug resistant malaria. We’re screwed. (via NPR)
Gender and peer review. (via Ars Technica)
Communicating with locked in patients via a brain computer interface. This would be more heartwarming if it didn’t start with an anecdote about a man refusing permission for his daughter to get married. (via BBC)

Featured image credit: Tom 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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