Ana has not been doing well in math this year.

So Jenn arranged for Deniz to tutor her once a week. Apparently, last week they got bored with 5th grade math, so Deniz worked on her with HER homework... 8th grade math homework. Which Ana breezed right through.

This is so her, by the way. It's not even surprising, just mildly aggravating.

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There are 10 times more mentally ill Americans in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals, a report published Tuesday found — adding that those individuals’ conditions often deteriorate while they are incarcerated.

http://alj.am/1qy5sVn

Just in time for Mayor Bill de Blasio's speech touting his first 100 days in office, the City Council plans to introduce a bill this week to allow municipal identification cards, multiple sources told Capital.

http://bit.ly/1ql0BIP

The CIW’s Campaign For Fair Food has been very successful at improving conditions in Florida's tomato fields. Even Wal-mart has signed on, agreeing to pay an extra penny per pound. But some large corporate buyers continue to refuse to cooperate, including Wendy’s, Publix, and Kroger.

http://www.metafilter.com/138174/Target-Wendys-Publix-Kroger

Snowden to NSA: Go ahead, deny I tried to raise the alarm legally

Speaking to Vanity Fair, the whistle-blower says that before leaking secret documents, he contacted people within the spy agency about its surveillance practices -- and that email records will prove it.

http://cnet.co/1ql01L2

Without funds to pay fines, minor incidents can mean jail time

Not only is this not constitutional, it's not smart. Jailing people costs money, and while they're in jail they aren't earning money to pay their fines, nor yet their taxes. The only people who profit from this travesty are the prisons.

http://to.pbs.org/1kNRux0

No evidence of forgery in ancient text mentioning ‘Jesus’s wife’

New tests show no evidence of forgery in ancient papyrus

http://b.globe.com/1kNwUwt

How ‘colorblind’ education reform policies actually ignore racial inequality

http://wapo.st/1hiTBKc

When baby animals must be rescued from their own mothers

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/baby-animals-rescued-mothers/

Saudi considers lifting ban on girls sports

Conservative country mulls allowing girls to play sports in state schools after consultative council's recommendation.

http://aje.me/1huDt9B

Apparently, people used to stick frogs in milk to keep it fresh.

http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin

After Florida cut down on protections for children in troubled homes, deaths soared. The children died in ways cruel, outlandish, predictable and preventable.

http://www.miamiherald.com/projects/2014/innocents-lost/stories/overview/index.html

Hand Soap Ingredient Can Up Body Bacteria Burden

Residues of the antimicrobial agent triclosan can paradoxically boost bacterial growth in our bodies, by giving microbes a comfortable biofilm in which to rest.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/triclosan-biofilm-staph/

Kate Mulgrew narrated a geocentric documentary, and I was sad.

But then it turned out she was duped (or so she claims, and I'm not digging too deeply), so I decided to celebrate by watching some Voyager after putting the nieces to bed last night while Jenn worked late.

A few things I am remembering about that show:

1. It's not the best Trek, however, it is actually possible that Janeway is the best captain. Patrick Stewart is great, don't get me wrong, but I always thought Picard was too thinky. What Janeway lacks in brains and badass, she makes up for in sheer attitude. It must be all the coffee.

2. Paris really is an idiot. In one episode he is baffled that they got stuck in an event horizon because they accidentally responded to their own hails from their future selves being stuck in the event horizon. Janeway laughs and patiently explains that one of the weirder aspects of life is that sometimes the effect can precede the cause. The VERY NEXT EPISODE they kill a planet with their own rescue attempt after they get stranded in the past, right before the planet dies and they go to find out what happened. Once again, Paris gets a puzzled look and asks how it can be possible that the effect preceded the cause.

It's not possible, Tom, just go with it. You're an idiot.

3. The best part of this show, coming back vaguely through the mists of the past, is watching to identify the "exotic" fruits and vegetables hanging out in the galley. Not sure how they got pomegranates and plantains just a few weeks after they started up their hydroponics bay, and I lol'd a bit to see that apparently, when the first episodes were filmed, Swiss chard was unusual enough that the Ocampas could believably grow it.