Climate change: Voices from global south muted by climate science – BBC News
"If the vast majority of research around climate change is coming from a group of people with a very similar background, for example, male scientists from the global north, then the...
Top 20 Pinoy Engineers & Young Scientists – GineersNow
Top 20 Pinoy Engineers & Modern Scientists While Filipinos primarily made names worldwide in the entertainment industry, we are actually known to be globally competitive in the...
Columnist JM Sorrell: Coming out for better or for worse – GazetteNET
Every year, National Coming Out Day is on Oct. 11. It began in 1988 with the concept of lesbian and gay liberation being contingent on the radical act of coming out....
Martina Navratilova Fast Facts – KTVZ
CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of gay rights advocate and tennis great Martina Navratilova. Personal Birth date: October 18, 1956 Birth place: Prague, Czechoslovakia (now...
Anthony Fauci Is Repeating Mistakes He Made During AIDS Crisis, Columnist Says – The...
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, columnist John Tierney argued that Fauci is repeating the same mistakes he made decades ago during the AIDS crisis.At the time, experts like Fauci claimed...
Daily briefing: Promising early results for oral COVID-19 treatment – Nature.com
NATURE BRIEFING 04 October 2021 An antiviral pill called molnupiravir shows promise against COVID-19. Plus, the science of touch wins the Nobel Prize in...
An old idea from a German Jewish scientist spared by the Nazis is getting...
Otto Warburg probably would have been sent to a concentration camp if the Nazis weren’t hoping he could cure cancer.Warburg was a Jewish gay man living openly in Berlin with his...
Foreign interference act is a risk for academic freedom – University World News
SINGAPORE The government has for decades proclaimed higher education and research as vital to Singapore’s development as a knowledge economy. But its proposed Foreign Interference (Countermeasures) Act or FICA – without...
No vaccine shot, no insurance coverage | Letters – Chicago Sun-Times
A small group of Chicago alderman insist, as stated in a letter to the mayor last week, city employees should be allowed to make their own decisions as to whether they...
The French doctors railing against vaccines and Covid-19 restrictions – Coda Story
On September 4, a prim-looking woman in her early 50s addressed a crowd in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris. She called on protesters to stand up against...
New climate risk disclosure recommendations explained | Stanford News – Stanford University News
The State of California should translate specific risks associated with climate change into financial terms and use that information in deciding how to spend its $260 billion annual budget and manage...
15 Must-Read October Children’s Book Releases – Book Riot
It’s finally Fall! Time for pumpkins, scarves, leaf jumps, and all things cozy — and nothing says cozy like books, right? A book and a pumpkin scone, maybe? With tea. It’s...
Star Trek vs Star Wars: Do They Make You A Geek? – The Wellesley...
Everyone who’s ever been involved in pop culture and media has heard the question: “Star Trek or Star Wars?” Why is this question so prevalent in the media? And more importantly,...
Unlearned AIDS Lessons for Covid – WSJ – The Wall Street Journal
‘Follow the science,” we’ve been told throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. But if we had paid attention to history, we would have known that once a disease becomes newsworthy, science gets distorted...
Meth overdose deaths in the United States almost tripled from 2015 to 2019, study...
Methamphetamine overdoses are on the rise, a study published in JAMA Psychiatry says.When researchers from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and...
Pat Robertson Ends His Long Run as Host of ‘The 700 Club’ – The...
The evangelical leader Pat Robertson said on Friday that he was stepping down as host of the “The 700 Club” after more than 50 years at the helm of a program...
Opinion | Cancel Culture: Are We Overreacting? – The New York Times
Joel FeiginGoleta, Calif.The writer is professor emeritus of music composition at the University of California Santa Barbara.To the Editor:Michelle Goldberg argues that older liberals complaining about cancel culture are upset because...
Prolific trans writer Roz Kaveney: ‘Pain gave me a dark sense of humour’ –...
Over the course of her life – she’s now 72 – Roz Kaveney has been a prolific writer.From science fiction writing with Neil Gaiman to book reviews for newspapers, comic reviews...
“Cured” Filmmakers React to my Review of Their Upcoming PBS Doc – Mad In...
When I heard that a documentary was in the works which was fiercely critical of the diseasing of homosexuality by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), I was curious how the filmmakers...
In a PBS documentary, ECT is Bad for “Curing” Homosexuality, but Great for Depression!...
When I heard that a documentary was in the works which was fiercely critical of the diseasing of homosexuality by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), I was curious how the filmmakers...
Spong on liberal Christianity in a changing world – Arkansas Online
Bishop John Shelby Spong of Newark, N.J. never stuck "Why Christianity Must Change or Die" on the doors of Canterbury Cathedral, since it was easier to post a talking-points version of...
‘BratPack,’ a Gloriously Funny Mashup of 80s Movies and Music, Opens at Feinstein’s at...
Especially for children of the 80s, the canon of movies put out by John Hughes and other directors of the so-called Brat Pack of young actors that included Molly Ringwald and...
The Untold Story of Women in Craft Brewing – 5280 – 5280 | The...
From left: Lady Justice founders Kate Power, Jen Cuesta, and Betsy Lay. Photo by Sarah Banks Eat and DrinkThis past spring’s reckoning over discrimination and harassment in the craft...
Pansexual people are real & valid. No matter how uncomfortable it makes you. –...
Pansexuality is a sexual orientation that thousands of people identify with, including several household names and recognizable people like JoJo Siwa, Jazz Jennings, Brandon Urie, and more. Definitions, of course, vary...
It’s time to stop criminalizing HIV – Atlanta Magazine
Protestors marched in New York in January 2020 to demand accountability for what they saw as HIV stigmatizing coverage from CBS New York.Photograph by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty ImagesWe met at...
NASA won’t rename James Webb telescope — and astronomers are angry – Nature.com
NEWS 01 October 2021 The agency found no evidence that the flagship observatory’s namesake was involved in anti-LGBT+ activities, but some say that Webb...
NASA Won’t Rename the James Webb Space Telescope—and Astronomers Are Angry – Scientific American
NASA has decided not to rename its soon-to-be-launched flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), after investigating whether its namesake, former NASA administrator James Webb, was involved in persecuting gay...
Testimony over Anchorage mask ordinance to continue for a 4th night Monday – Anchorage...
ExpandAutoplayImage 1 of 15Travis Neff of Anchorage shows exasperation while another person gives testimony. The Anchorage Assembly heard public comment on a proposed mask ordinance on September 30, 2021. (Marc Lester...
Gov’t requests review of ban on gay or bisexual men giving blood – Kathimerini...
The government has requested a review of the outright ban on blood donations by men who have same-sex sexual relations, Minister for Health Thanos Plevris told MPs on Friday.
Currently, Greece...
Do Catholics value all life or just some life? – Courier Journal
Pope Francis declared that the Catholic Church’s pro-life stance could not be more important today, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The life we are called to promote and defend is...
Chicago executive profile: William Payne at Polsky Center at University of Chicago – Crain’s...
William Payne, a seasoned business and technology executive from the telecommunications industry, is the new executive director of Polsky Science & Technology, a group within the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship &...
Judge in Texas abortion case is an Obama-appointee and ‘country boy at heart’ who...
The federal judge presiding over the Biden administration’s challenge to the Texas law banning most abortions has been balancing big, complicated issues since he was a child in Fort Worth.Robert Lee...
‘A willingness to write crimes off’: on the trail of the Bondi killers –...
Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeWhat a day it is. A cloudless spring afternoon at Mackenzies Point, a flat shelf of rock poking out over the Pacific Ocean on...
The Rt Rev John Shelby Spong obituary – The Times
The Right Rev John Shelby Spong disbelieved so many of the tenets of Christianity that his critics wondered how he could call himself a Christian at all. Trying to ground his...
Creep of the Week: Liz Cheney – Out In Jersey
Liz Cheney I know it’s all the rage to point to her as the one reasonably sane Republican in a sea of seditious liars, but it’s just not that simple.
First of...