Reality Checks: Twerking Away Violence, Fining Google for Monopolizing Search, Categorizing Weird Ungulates with DNA, and Transgender Prejudice

Elizabeth — June 29, 2017

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Twerking fends off violence in San Francisco. This is my favorite story ever. (via missionlocal)
Google fined by European court for abusing search monopoly. (via Ars Technica)
Using DNA to add Macrauchenia patachonica to the tree of life. (via CNN)
Transgender prejudice and the belief in a biological gender. (via NPR)

Featured image credit: Gilberto A Viciendo 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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Reality Checks: Twerking Away Violence, Fining Google for Monopolizing Search, Categorizing Weird Ungulates with DNA, and Transgender Prejudice

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