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Life by the Numbers: VIDEO
PBS Digital Studios realized that YouTube is teeming with science geeks, so it has started a new series called 'It's Okay to Be Smart' featuring a smart alec host Joe Hanson, who, in the first episode, fills your head with dazzling facts about how successful humans are to other species.
The ASAPScience guys are going to need to step up their game!
Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...
News: Cooper As Armstrong, Palin's Media Future, 78, Body Image
Simply revolted over the idea of two men marrying, an Episcopal priest has decided to stop having sex with his wife in order to become a Catholic priest.
President Obama thanks Hillary Clinton during a joint interview that will air on 60 Minutes tonight. He added, "It has been a great collaboration over the last four years. I'm going to miss her, wish she was sticking around, but she
has logged in so many miles I can't begrudge her wanting to take it
easy for a little bit."
Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton's Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters topped the box office this weekend, but was still considered a disappointment with only an $19 million domestic haul.
The tweet in which Darren Criss plays with his keyboard.
And of course we all know how to play the plastic recorder.
Does a best picture win at the Producer's Guild Awards give Argo an Oscar advantage?
How valuable is your DNA information? Not very, according to New Scientist: "Having your genome open to public scrutiny obviously raises privacy issues. Employers and insurers may be interested. Embarrassing family secrets may be exposed.But overall, personal genetic
information is probably no more revealing than other sorts. In fact there are reasons to believe that it is less so: would an insurance company really go to the trouble of decoding a genome to discover a slightly elevated risk of cancer or Alzheimer's disease?"
After being booted from Fox News, Sarah Palin is optimistic about her future in media: "As far as long-term plans, the door is wide open... I know the
country needs more truth-telling in the media, and I'm willing to do
that. So, we shall see."
Bradley Cooper as Lance Armstrong in a JJ Abrams-directed biopic?
Beyonce lives it up.
The Republicans continue to lose their grip on the West.
Same-sex desire in the fur trade: "William Drummond Stewart, a member of the lower Scottish nobility and the subject of this biography, came primarily to hunt and to experience the wide-open freedom of the northern Great Plains and Rockies (think modern-day African safaris). Stewart’s story, however, and as the subtitle of this book implies, has a twist: He was an openly gay man at a time when being gay was to risk ignominious public punishment (including hanging in some areas of the British isles) and the certain ruination of reputation and fortune."
Is Wyoming thawing on gay issues: "It remains to be seen whether gay rights supporters in the overwhelmingly Republican Wyoming Legislature can pass measures that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, create civil unions or even gay marriage. So far, nine of the legislature's 78 Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors of the various bills. Eight of the Legislature's 12 Democrats are on board with at least one of the bills. Committee hearings on two of the bills were
scheduled for Monday."
French sailor Francois Gabart only needed 78 days to go around the world.
News: Gun Rally, Norovirus, Balkanization, 16-bit
The New York Times' Charles M. Blow on the GOP's plans to discard the winner-take-all system that has been favoring Democrats: "One day I will have to visit the evil lair where they come up with these schemes.They pump them out like a factory. Voter suppression didn’t work in November, and it may even have backfired in some states, so they just devised another devilish plan."
Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, an anti-gay Republican, also opposes the measure: "I think winner-take-all is part of how a state matters. Our side would have gotten more votes this go-around but you know I want people to want to fight to win the whole state. It makes the state as a state matter more... We need to build them up and not to Balkanize America. It's the states that created the federal government and not the other way around."
And neither does Haley Barbour, the former governor of Mississippi.
Good news: "Emmanuel Lutheran Church will vote Sunday to openly confirm its acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parishioners… The vote would confirm Emmanuel as a Reconciling in Christ congregation and make it the first Rockford church listed with Reconciling Works, which advocates for the full inclusion of LGBT Lutherans in all aspects of church life. Reconciling Works lists 5,893 open Lutheran congregations across the United States."
Never fear, Beyoncé is on site rehearsing for her Super Bowl performance.
Headline of the day: "There's Absolutely No Logical Argument Against Gay Marriage".
Runner-up: "Adam Lambert Got A Birthday Lap Dance From David Arquette Last Night".
No amount of crunches can save your tummy from the norovirus: "It's here. A variant of norovirus first spotted in Australia is now sweeping the U.S. The wily virus causes stomach upset, vomiting and diarrhea. The sickness is sometimes referred to as the stomach flu, though influenza has nothing to do with it."
Which "straight" actors have taken to snogging one another?
New satellite technology lets us finally see what clouds are up to at night.
Thousands turn out for pro-gun control rally in D.C.
On her 55th birthday, 55 reasons to love Ellen DeGeneres.
Troy Stevenson, the new executive director for Garden State Equality, vows to keep fighting for marriage equality there.
Bryan Singer confirmed that Ellen Page and Anna Paquin have signed on to the next X-movie, "Days of Future Past," based on the classic X-Men story arc of the same name.
Downton Abbey as a 16-bit Super Nintendo video game.
Here's part of what President Obama said a video pre-recorded for the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force annual conference: "Today you are helping lead the way to a future where everyone is treated with dignity and respect... The work will be hard, the road will be long, but I'm more confident than ever that we will reach a better future as long as Americans like you keep reaching for justice and all of us keep marching together."
Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg, Finally Answered: VIDEO
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News: Gay Pride Suppression, Hillary Clinton, Russia, JJ Abrams
A gay man in Boynton Beach, Florida, is being accused of trying to start abstract "trouble" after his neighborhood association nixed his pride flag. The man, Dave Armstrong, says his neighbors are just homophobic. "I said, 'Listen, everybody else has an American flag on the front of
their property, so why can't I have my pride flag right out here?'"
An Atlanta man is suing Georgia after state rejects his three gay-themed vanity license plates, "4GayLib," "GayPwr" and "GayGuy:" "All three were denied because they were already on a list of more than
10,000 banned tags, the state's 'bad tag list'. 'There are some limits
that are proper but none of this makes any sense,' [Attorney Cynthia] Counts said. 'It's
completely contrary to any first amendment principals.'"
The Connecticut Senate approved the state's first openly gay Supreme Court justice.
MSNBC panels says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was "at her very best" during yesterday's Benghazi hearings.
New rules from the Kremlin demand military officers inspect recruits'
bodies, including their genitals, for tattoos that may indicate gang or
gay affiliation. "The reason for getting tattoos could indicate a low
cultural or educational level," the directive reads.
"If an influence by external factors is determined, for example,
persuasion or direct coercion, this indicates the malleability of the
young man, his disposition to submit to another's will."
Scotland Yard says it has arrested three people suspected of being involved in a "Muslim street patrol" that recently assaulted a gay man in London.
More about corporations turning on the Boy Scouts for the Scouts' tenacious homophobia, including a chart on who's giving how much to the organization. (Click on image to expand.)
David Hall, the former Air Force sergeant booted under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, discusses his experience as a "citizen co-chair" during President Obama's second inauguration. "I think he tried to put us all at ease and talk to us as normal people," he said of the commander-in-chief's demeanor.
Rather than joining the momentum that will most likely usher in marriage equality in Rhode Island, and simultaneously going against his party peer, Gov. Lincoln Chafee, Democratic State Sen. Frank A. Ciccone III plans on introducing a bill that will put same-sex unions to a popular vote, rather than allowing lawmakers to decide.
Despite outcry from LGBT students, Chick-fil-A will stay put at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The school, however, agreed to give them $1,500 to see if they can start an anti-bullying and general awareness campaign on such a small budget.
Stephen Dorff found some relief in the Roosevelt Hotel's bushes.
Here are the president's remarks on the Pentagon lifting the ban on women in combat: "Today, by moving to open more military positions—including ground combat units—to women, our armed forces have taken another historic step toward harnessing the talents and skills of all our citizens..."
Polish lawmakers begin debating civil unions.
Why didn't Sheryl Crow tell the world that former lover Lance Armstrong was doping?
David Beckham in a "fashionable dressing gown."
Is JJ Abrams going to direct the next Star Wars flick?
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