Reality Checks: Male Victims of Domestic Violence, Wedding Cake, Why Good AIs go Bad, and the Bubble Islands of Titan

Elizabeth — April 20, 2017

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Sheltering male victims of domestic violence (via Femalista)
History of wedding cake. (via NPR)
Why AIs become racist and sexist. (via Ars Technica)
Islands on Titan may justbe bubbles. (via phys.org)

Featured image credit: Kimberly Vardeman 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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