LGBTQ news and entertainment
White House hopeful (oh my sides) Rick Santorum says the Pope should “leave the science to scientists” when it comes to discussing climate change.
Hey Rick – Pope Francis has a Master’s Degree in Chemistry, thus, making him a scientist.
What’s your basis for discussing the subject, Rick?
Shades of Back To The Future! Check out this working model of an actual hoverboard developed by Lexus.
Very cool, but it’s not quite there yet.
From Bloomberg:
Even though Lexus and Evico were able to pull off the project, don’t expect to see a hoverboard fly past while you’re walking down the street next year. To use maglev technology that would make this sort of hoverboard work, you need a magnetic metal track. Normal concrete pavements won’t do. Lexus solved this issue by converting a skate park in Barcelona into a temporary hoverboard skate park. On an existing track composed of cement and wood, the Lexus and Evico teams swooped in to lay down hundreds of small magnets.
Check out the first high-resolution footage from the International Space Station’s ultra-hi-res camera.
Very cool.
By the way, the video notes that for those worried about privacy, the camera’s lens will not be able to make out individual’s faces.
There are almost 300 million people in the world who are colorblind. This short video shares what happened when EnChroma partnered with Valspar Paint to help people experience color for the first time.
The glasses in the video feature EnChroma Cx lenses, which help separate and filter colors.
Watch a dad see his sons drawings in color for the first time.
The video has gone viral with almost 900K views in a few days.
The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let's protect all our kids. #GrandmothersKnowBest— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 3, 2015
The old saying goes, “Nice guys finish last.”
Well, there’s encouragement to seek higher ground, right?
The AsapSCIENCE guys are here, though, to prove the old adage wrong.
I wonder if there is a subliminal message that their “nice guy” is blond and wears glasses? 🙂
An Oklahoma City FOX affiliate cut 15 seconds from the broadcast of Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Sunday night when an ‘operator error’ interrupted it with a local news promotion.
Posted on the station’s Twitter feed was this explanation: “Sunday, during Cosmos, a local news promo was aired over a portion of COSMOS content. This was an operator error & we regret the error.”
The 15 seconds that were cut were the only part of the series that mentions human evolution:
“Three and a half million years ago our ancestors, yours and mine, left these traces. We stood up, and parted ways from them. Once we stood on two feet, our eyes were no longer fixated on the ground. Now we were free to look up, and wonder.”
From the folks at It’s OK to be Smart:
When you really think about it, kissing is an odd human behavior. You know, all the rubbing of our faces all over each other. So there must be a good reason why we do it, right?
From motherly comforts to testing the genetic compatibility of your “mate” . . . the science of kissing is pretty awesome.