Reality Checks: Ethical Food Labor, Sonic Guns vs Smart Devices, the Inadvisability of Makeup Sponges as Menstrual Products, and Making a Better World via the Hunt for ET

Elizabeth — August 1, 2017

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Farm to table and food labor practices. (via NPR)
Attacking smart devices with sonic guns. (via Black Hat)
Don’t stick makup sponges up your vagina. Why is this even a conversation we need to have>(via Dr Jen Gunter)
Looking for aliens is good for society. (via space.com)

Featured image credit: kevin Dooley 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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