Reality Checks: Octopi on Land, Security for Heathrow on a USB Stick, Racism and Health Outcomes, Street Views for Cats, and Literary Responses to Dick Pics

Elizabeth — October 31, 2017

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Octopi on land in Wales. Creepy. (via Gizmodo)
Today in security, an unencrypted USB containing Heathrow security plans was found. (via Ars Technica)
Racism is bad for your health. (via NPR)
Japan has a google street view for cats! (via vox)
Not actually news, but we all need famous authors responding to unsolicited dick pics. (via McSweeney’s)

Featured image credit:damn_unique 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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