Scientist explains why starfish will risk being eaten just to have gay sex –...

Many species of starfish will reach out their "mating arm" to the closest lover, regardless of sex. (Myburgh Roux/ Pexels) A scientist has explained why starfish will risk being eaten to...

Politics, Science and the Remarkable Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine – The New York...

The president was especially enthusiastic about that aim. At a March 2 White House meeting, as Mr. Bancel and other pharmaceutical executives outlined their vaccine plans, Dr. Fauci cautioned that it...

Science says queer people at higher risk for dementia – Queerty

Stock image. Via pixabay A new study of gay, lesbian and bisexual people has revealed that members of the community are at a higher risk for dementia than their heterosexual counterparts. Michigan State...

Charlemagne Life beyond Europe’s rainbow curtain – The Economist

Nov 21st 2020IRELAND AND Lithuania have much in common. Both are small, Catholic, Europhile, enjoy a tricky relationship with a larger neighbour and have cuisines heavy on potatoes. Both also left...

Gay physician named to federal CDC HIV post – Bay Area Reporter, America’s highest...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week that a gay physician has been named director of the agency's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention.Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, a longtime leader in...

Gay men ‘significantly under-represented’ in science – Times Higher Education (THE)

Gay male students appear to face disadvantages obtaining scientific degrees at least as great as those confronting racial minorities, especially in fields with relatively few women, a study of US graduates...

Study finds gay men are attracted to cues of fertility — just like their...

Homosexual men view both highly fertile women and men as more attractive compared to women and men who are less fertile, according to new research published in Personality and Individual Differences....

The True Story Behind the Movie ‘Ammonite’ – TIME

You have reached your limit of 4 free articles. Get unlimited access to TIME.com.Subscribe and get 1 year for just $15. Subscribe Now Thank you for reading TIME. You...

Torres and Jones Win and Will Become 1st Gay Black Members of Congress –...

Assuming, as some researchers do, that Americans who are gay, bisexual or transgender represent 4.5 percent of the population, and Black Americans represent 12 percent of the L.G.B.T.Q. community, Congress would...

A Groundbreaking New History of Gay Sex and Capitalism – The New Republic

The chief authority Chitty takes aim at in Sexual Hegemony is Michel Foucault, the theorist whose work made HistCon possible. His History of Sexuality had an explosive effect on the twentieth-century...

Gay Republicans really are self-loathing according to science – LGBTQ Nation

A new study from the Williams Institute seems to prove a long-standing assumption about queer Republicans. A large portion of them are unhappy with their sexual orientation and don’t want...

Dr Pamela Gay from the Planetary Science Institute on Citizen Science – InfoQ.com

00:21 Introductions 00:21 Shane Hastie: Good day folks. This is Shane Hastie for the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast. I'm at QCon, San Francisco, 2019, and I've got the privilege of sitting...

A Post-Trumpean New Morality – Falls Church News Press

To whatever degree it is appreciated now, the November 2020 election will go down in history as a great referendum on morality. It is caused to be such by the extreme...

Newly Published Portraits Document a Century of Gay Men’s Relationships – Smithsonian Magazine

SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Oct. 29, 2020, 1:19 p.m. When Texas couple Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell stumbled onto a 1920s-era photograph in a Dallas antiques shop some 20 years ago,...

Ridiculous study claims 85% of gay people are possessed by ghosts – PinkNews

A wild spirit hunts for a queer person to posses. (Stock photo via Elements Envato) Do you wake up each morning and feel the following: Lack of physical anchoring to this...

Majority of Gays Are Possessed by Ghosts, So-Called Study Says – Advocate.com

Majority of Gays Are Possessed by Ghosts, So-Called Study Says Sugar, spice, and ... ghostly possession? Those are ingredients that make up a huge chunk of the LGBTQ+ population, if one...

Completely legitimate scientific study claims 85% of gay people are possessed by ghosts –...

A wild spirit hunts for a queer person to posses. (Stock photo via Elements Envato) Do you wake up each morning and feel the following: Lack of physical anchoring to this...

A Viral Theory Cited by Health Officials Draws Fire From Scientists – The New...

As the coronavirus pandemic erupted this spring, two Stanford University professors — Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Scott W. Atlas — bonded over a shared concern that lockdowns were creating economic...

Gay male penguins steal lesbian couple’s eggs at Dutch Zoo – NBC News

The gay penguins strike again.A pair of two male African penguins at a Dutch zoo, who made international headlines last year when they stole an egg from a heterosexual couple, have...

What Pope Francis’s comments about gay families could mean for LGBTQ people worldwide –...

“They’re children of God and have a right to a family,” Pope Francis said in a new documentary. “Nobody should be thrown out, or be made miserable because of it.”The recognition,...

Why a Perfect Spiral Football Pass Doesn’t Break the Laws of Physics – The...

They, too, were intrigued.“I played football in New York City a long time ago,” said Dr. Price; he attended Stuyvesant High School, which, like Caltech, is known for its high-achieving academics...

How LGBT+ scientists would like to be included and welcomed in STEM workplaces –...

CAREER FEATURE 19 October 2020 Steps that peers and institutions can take to make laboratories, conferences and lecture halls safe and inclusive spaces. ...

Apical stress fibers enable a scaling between cell mechanical response and area in epithelial...

Fiber tension enables tissue scalingTissue development, homeostasis, and repair require cells to sense mechanical forces. Although many molecular actors implicated in cell mechanosensitivity have been extensively studied, the basis by which...

Ahead of Speaker Event, FAS Dean Gay Says Charles Murray’s Work Lacks Academic Merit...

UPDATED: Oct. 14, 2020, at 10:08 a.m.Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science Claudine Gay said in an interview Friday that she does not believe Charles A. Murray's '65 work...

FAS Dean Gay Says Circumstances ‘Bode Well’ for Welcoming ‘Potentially Even More’ Students to...

Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay said in an interview Friday that Harvard affiliates’ adherence to health protocols thus far “bodes well” for welcoming “potentially even more...

White House embraces a declaration from scientists that opposes lockdowns and relies on ‘herd...

The White House has embraced a declaration by a group of scientists arguing that authorities should allow the coronavirus to spread among young healthy people while protecting the elderly and the...

Why Does a Patrick Mahomes Football Pass Look So Beautiful? These Physicists Believe They...

For years, the University of Nebraska physics professor Tim Gay—no relation, at least I’m pretty sure—would observe the long, spiraling flight of an expertly-thrown football pass and find it, well, confusing....

Whistle-Blowing Scientist Quits Government With Final Broadside – The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, a senior vaccine scientist who said he was demoted this spring for complaining about “cronyism” and political interference in science, resigned his final government post on Tuesday,...

Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump – The New York Times

But in interviews, the Cornell researchers said they expected to find more mentions of conspiracy theories, and not so many articles involving Mr. Trump.Updated April 28, 2021, 5:56 p.m. ETPublic health experts...

End Ban on Cornea Donations from Gay Men: Study – WebMD

By Robert PreidtHealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. and Canadian restrictions on cornea donations from gay and bisexual men prevent thousands of vision-restoring transplants and need to be...

Lesbian, gay and bi people much more likely to get migraines than straight people,...

LGB people are 58 per cent more likely to experience a migraine than straight people (BSIP/Universal Images/Getty) Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are significantly more likely to get migraines than straight...

News End Ban on Cornea Donations from Gay Men: Study – WebMD

By Robert PreidtHealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. and Canadian restrictions on cornea donations from gay and bisexual men prevent thousands of vision-restoring transplants and need to be...

Trump May Reject Tougher F.D.A. Vaccine Standards, Calling Them ‘Political’ – The New York...

Mr. Trump has insisted a vaccine will be ready as early as next month. That seems increasingly unlikely, and Dr. Redfield said again on Wednesday that immunizing every American could take...

The Masks We Wear to Survive – Scientific American

It is 2018, the second year of my psychiatry residency training, and I’m in the shower, unable to stop the doubts: “What if I don’t know enough for my patients?”...

US LGBT+ TikTok users fear losing ‘safe space’ with ban – Thomson Reuters Foundation

TikTok has become a popular platform for young LGBT+ Americans to swap jokes, make friends and share their experiences By Rachel Savage LONDON, Sept 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - U.S. LGBT+ TikTok...