Reality Checks: Atomic Radios, Amazon Selling Customer Data, Tracking Ivory Smuggling with DNA, and Food Paper Retractions

Elizabeth — September 20, 2018

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Atomic Radio (via Ars Technica)
Amazon workers accused of selling customer data. (via AJC)
Using DNA to track ivory smugglers. (via NPR)
Food researcher from Cornell has 6 papers retracted. (via Vox)

Featured image credit: Franziska 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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