Don't let your kids' education slip this summer -- build Camp Digital Learning

"Kids reportedly fail to retain as much as two months of math and reading instruction as they while away the idyllic hours of summer with TV, YouTube, ("Minecraft,") texting with friends and other mind-numbing fun. Teachers gripe that they spend the first few months of the school year reviewing the learning that was lost."  more >> mercurynews.com/michelle-quinn

Peace Activists Cross Demilitarized Zone Separating Koreas

It was rare for the two rival Korean governments to agree to allow a group of peace activists to pass through the border area, known as the DMZ. But some of the symbolism the activists had hoped to generate with their Women Cross DMZ campaign was lost when South Korea denied them permission to walk through Panmunjom, a border village where a truce was signed in 1953 to halt, but not formally end, the conflict, leaving the divided Korea in a technical state of war. << more >> 

BBC news report: Ocean's hidden world of plankton revealed in 'enormous database'

The hidden world of the ocean's tiniest organisms has been revealed in a series of papers published in the journal Science.  << read more >>