How Limited Internet Access Can Subtract From Kids’ Education Smartphones are often credited with helping bridge the “digital divide” between people who do and don’t have Internet access at home. But is mobile Internet enough for a family with a kid in school? cross-posted on Facebook

IDK NOT TRUMP THO 2016 Many of us have already made up our minds about the 2016 presidential race and we feel very, very strongly about it. Join us. cross-posted on Facebook

Washington SAFE Alliance “I think they have a belief that this makes people safer. But the reality is…it’s going to force people like me into men’s rooms, which is going to put us in a huge amount of danger of physical violence and sexual assault.” -Jennifer Popkin Stand with us today! Contact your state senator …

Really Washington??? Our Human Rights Commission passes new regulation that you don’t like so you’re going to interfere with their mandate to protect human rights in our state? “a vote of 4 to 3 late last night by the Washington Senate Committee on Law and Justice in favor of legislation that would specifically prohibit the …

In other damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t news.School suspends trans boy for using boys’ restroom — after girls complained he was using theirs A transgender student who identifies as male was suspended from his South Carolina high school after a teacher saw him using the boy’s bathroom, WMBF reports. cross-posted on Facebook

If Male Scientists Were Written About Like Female Scientists “A devout husband and father, Darwin balanced his family duties with the study of the specimens he brought from his travels.” cross-posted on Facebook

Zika virus is fascinating and terrifying to me. Having played Plague a lot, which is a pandemic simulation game based current science, Zika sounds like a plague I would design. If it was a virus I was playing, right about now I would be mutating new ways to transmit the virus to dramatically increase the …

I had the privilege of listening to a talk by a historian who was lead author on a Brief amici curiae filed in a current case concerning abortion rights that is set to be heard before SCOTUS. It was really interesting to consider how historians can provide insight and background to the courts. The opening …

Because that makes all the sense…Latin American countries recommend women delay pregnancy, criminalize abortion In response to an increase in cases of the Zika virus, multiple Latin American countries have issued recommendations that women delay getting pregnant until the outbreak is under control. The mosquito-borne virus is related to similar infections like dengue, yellow fever …