Reality Checks: School Lunches, Prison Computers, Marathoning while Female, and Russian Terminator Robots

Elizabeth — April 18, 2017

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Prison ceiling computing. (via BBC)
Russia is not sending a terminator robot to the space. This is one of the most disappointing headlines ever. (via Ars Technica)
Forcing schools to write down their lunch policies (via NPR)
The first woman who ran the Boston Marathon was attacked for it.(via the Mary Sue)

Featured image credit: Ishikawa Ken 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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