This Week in National Affairs: It’s Back to School, and It’s Ugly
School is starting up again. It’s going about as well as you’d expect. The post This Week in National Affairs:…
It’s Women’s Equality Day, So Watch These 10 Movies About Badass Women
It’s Women’s Equality Day. Celebrate with a feel-good feminist binge-watching session. The post It’s Women’s Equality Day, So Watch These…
Meet Luigi the PoopBot. He’s Here to Scrape Your Sewers
MIT is studying waste to understand everything from heroin use to antibiotic-resistant bacteria—and all with the help of a sewer-slurping…
How (and Why) to Safely Open Your Wi-Fi Network During a Disaster
Disasters happen. Emergency access to Wi-Fi is critical, for affected people and first responders. But you have to do it…
Getting POTUS Into a Disaster Area Is Kind of a Disaster
President Obama wasn’t late to Louisiana. And he really could have disrupted relief efforts. The post Getting POTUS Into a…
Want More Accurate Polls? Maybe Ask Twitter
A solution to an outmoded polling system might be to see how Twitter’s feeling. The post Want More Accurate Polls?…
Wait, Didn’t Parks and Rec. Do This Bill Clinton Cookie Thing Already?
The Family Circle Cookie Contest started as a queasy way to make Hillary Clinton more relatable (read: traditionally feminine). Now…
No Excuses: Google Just Made Voting a Little Easier
Unfortunately, those registration forms still won’t autocomplete. The post No Excuses: Google Just Made Voting a Little Easier appeared first…
The Price of Zika? About $4 Million Per Child
Caring for children born with Zika birth defects will be tragic and expensive. The post The Price of Zika? About…
What’s in the CDC’s Zika Prevention Kits, From Permethrin to Condoms
The CDC wants you to stock up on the right stuff, but for many it will be too little, too…