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MEMernet: Star Struck, Neverending Elvis, and Word Up

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Starstruck

Al Roker was starstruck recently. Leaving a TED Countdown Summit on climate change in Detroit, he ran into Tennessee state Representative Justin Pearson.

“I got to meet one of the #twojustins from Tennessee,” Roker wrote on Facebook.

The other Justin, of course, is state Representative Justin Jones. Both Justins were expelled from and reinstated to the Tennessee House of Representatives this year for protests on gun violence.

Never-ending Elvis

Posted to Palaeontologia Electronica

A story in the most recent issue of Cosmos reads, “Scientists have named a new species of pterodactyl with a distinctive pompadour-looking crest on its skull — earning it the nickname ‘Elvis.’” That is all.

Word Up

Photo: Ansley Murphy

An answer on Wordle, The New York Times’ still wildly successful word game, was worth a couple of digital high fives in the Flyer Slack channel last week. The answer? FLYER. Take a win where you can get it, folks.