Reality Checks: Summoning the Devil, Extinction and the Law, Puerto Rican Statehood, and the Fight Against Manspreading

Elizabeth — June 13, 2017

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Charles Babbage, father of computing, once tried to summon the devil. (via Ars Technica)
Legal implications of reviving extinct species (via Ars Technica)
Puerto Rico votes for statehood in nonbinding referendum. (via PBS)
Madrid is fighting manspreading on public transport. (via Washington Post)

Featured image credit: Benjamin Lehet via flickt

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: Summoning the Devil, Extinction and the Law, Puerto Rican Statehood, and the Fight Against Manspreading

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