Reality Checks: Influential Films, Presidential Funerals, the Brightness of the Observable Universe, and a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads

Elizabeth — December 4, 2018

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Wizard of Oz is the most influential film of all time. (via Ars Technica)
Presidential funerals, an overview. (via NPR)
Measuring the brightness of the universe. (via Engadget)
A database of fugitive slave ads from Cornell. (via hyperallergic)

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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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Reality Checks: Influential Films, Presidential Funerals, the Brightness of the Observable Universe, and a Database of Fugitive Slave Ads

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Reality Checks: NdGT Accused of Sexual Misconduct, the Case Against Airbrushing, Paternal mtDNA, and Seeing the Effects of Termites from Space

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