Reality Checks: CIA Games, Spider Appreciation, Algae, and Waiting Periods for Viagra

Elizabeth — March 16, 2017

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Board games the CIA plays. (via Ars Technica)
Spider appreciation: they eat between 400-800m metric tons of other bugs every year. (via Guardian)
The origins of algae, (via Christian Science Monitor)
Texas legislator proposes satirical bill to ban male masturbation and impose waiting times for viagra. (via theMarySue)

Featured image credit: Jana Jermakova-Zalkovska via 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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