Reality Checks: Spongy Enceladus, Alcohol vs Language Skills, Listing the Dead Migrants, and George Takei accused of Sexual Assault

Elizabeth — November 14, 2017

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Enceladus has a sponge like core. (via Ars Technica)
Study suggests moderate alcohol consumption improves language skills. The researchers suggest it is more because people feel less nervous about speaking in a foreign language. (via BPS Research Digest)
The dead migrants. 33k since 1993. (via NPR)
George Takei accused of sexual assault. This one really hurts. (via the Mary Sue)

Featured image credit: NASA via flickr

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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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