I terminated a very wanted pregnancy at 26 weeks gestation in June. My daughter had a genetic duplication and abnormalities that would have ensured that her life was brief and painful, had she even survived the rest of pregnancy and birth. If I was not extremely privileged to have excellent health insurance and enough…

We've always used the proper terms with our kiddo (I'm a biologist, I'm not going to call it a wee-wee or a hoo-haa or whatever). She was then told by other kids she was saying "bad words." Her teacher started to tell her not to say those and she proudly said "My mommy says those are the right words and not to use…

I'm female, I'm going to offer a probably unpopular opinion. I don't want you to post on female-related issues. Lifehacker is my escape from Vogue and Jezebel and their cousins.

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This is broken. Radio Style + Mobile Device + Always Connected + Not Invested in Itunes + Mind Ads + On-Demand = Rdio Web... which doesn't allow mobile devices.

There's a lot of confusion over terms with lithium batteries. Lithium ion is an industry term regarding the charge carrier in the battery. All lithium batteries are 'lithium ion'. they got this name because the original lithium batteries used a liquid electrolyte to transfer the lithium ions around (think like…