Reality Checks: Flat Earth Rocket Launch, Blind Cavefish and Insulin, Birth Control Apps, and Cyber Attacks

Elizabeth — March 27, 2018

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Flat Earther launches himself in homemade rocket and lives. (via Gizmodo)
Blind cavefish seem to have different insulin systems than we do. (via arstechnica)
Birth control apps in contraception deserts. (via NPR)
City of Atlanta, GA suffers cyber attack. (via 11alive)

Featured image credit: Global Panorama 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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