New research from the Spanish National Research Council provides more information about how our arms and legs developed from fins. Basically, tetrapods like humans and cows have a gene, called the hoxd13 gene, that produces a protein that leads to th…
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Archives for December 15, 2012
Posts from December 15, 2012
News: Hillary Clinton, Francois Hollande, Connecticut, Australia
Hoorah! The Michigan legislature put the kibosh on a plan that would have allowed adoption agencies and health officials to forbid same-sex couples from adopting. Matt Damon explains why he never denied rumors about him and Ben Affleck being an item.…
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Interview: Alan Cumming on love at first sight and “Any Day Now”
Alan Cumming & Garrett Dillahunt celebrating ANY DAY NOW last spring. Now it's in theaters! BY NATHANIEL ROGERS SPECIAL "ANY DAY NOW" EDITION OF THE MOVIE COLUMN Any Day Now, a new 70s based gay drama from director Travis Fine, has…
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Watch The First Episode Of Gay Web Series ‘EastSiders:’ VIDEO
We'll have to wait untold months for HBO's gay comedy, and with season one of The Outs behind us, that's out for our viewing pleasure. Never fear, though, because there's still the new gay-themed web series EastSiders to get us throug…
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HBO Orders Comedy Pilot About Gay Pals In San Francisco
HBO, the pay-cable channel that brings us Girls, Boardwalk Empire and LGBT-favorite True Blood, announced yesterday that it has ordered a pilot about the lives of three gay friends living in San Francisco. From The Hollywood Reporter: The untitled pr…
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Nate Silver: Pro-Gun Side Winning War Of Words
In the wake of yesterday’s shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, a tragedy most of us are still trying to process, statistician Nate Silver decided to look at the use of the terms “gun control,” “second amendment,” “g…
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‘Dallas Morning News’ Endorses Marriage Equality
In January of 2011, the Dallas Morning News made waves by announcing that it would not publish same-sex marriage announcements because same-sex marriage remains unrecognized in Texas. It was six months before public outrage forced the paper to change…
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Dutch Caribbean Island Saba Legalizes Marriage Equality
Though The Netherlands approved marriage equality in 2001, they gave their various island municipalities more time to overcome local opposition. One of those islands, Saba, managed to do just that: officials held their first same-sex marriage there e…
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Mike Huckabee Blames CT Shooting On Lack Of Religion In Schools: VIDEO
Mike Huckabee, the former Republican Arkansas governor who lost his 2008 presidential bid so he became a Fox News pundit instead, played a little game of right-wing "blame the victim" yesterday when he flat out said that a lack of religion…
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