Reality Checks: Sequins, Malarial Tastes, Legitimacy of AI, and Pollution in the Trenches

Elizabeth — February 14, 2017

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History of sequins. (via The Dreamstress)
People with malaria taste good (to mosquitoes carrying malaria). (via Ars Technica)
Tennessee legislatures want to do away with automatically granting children conceived through AI legitimacy. Because reasons that have nothing to do with teh gays. Really. (via ABC)
Even the Mariana Trench is polluted. (via NPR)

Featured image credit: girlwparasol 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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