Reality Checks: the FDA Redefines Healthy, Education for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Uncomfortable Airline Passengers, and the Father of Neuroscience

Elizabeth — February 21, 2017

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Redefining healthy, the FDA wants your opinion. (via Ars Technica)
Jehovah’s Witnesses suffer from lack of education. (via NPR)
Airline passengers get someone kicked off a plane because they are uncomfortable. (via theMarySue)
Sketches from the father of neuroscience. (via NYT)

Featured image credit: Thomas Haynie from 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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Reality Checks: the FDA Redefines Healthy, Education for Jehovah’s Witnesses, Uncomfortable Airline Passengers, and the Father of Neuroscience

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