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Then there was the time that Jack Kirby designed costumes for a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.

The 20 biggest consequences of gay marriage being legalized in Massachusetts for the past eight years.

Talking to dolphins: New "Dolphin speaker" produces full range of dolphinese sounds.

Students at James Hubert Blake High School in Maryland launched a new kind of diplomacy this year to spread a message of tolerance for gays and lesbians : Call it rainbow diplomacy. The school’s Gay-Straight Alliance created a rainbow-colored paper doll and sent her around the world. “Allie the Ally” can be printed out and photographed anywhere and with anyone who wants to show support for gay youth. Allie's many travels have been documented online.

Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm with her brain.

How Facebook made only the rich even richer

Pretty much everyone has a rare genetic variant. (You'd expect that, with the number of genes we have)

Africa is experiencing some of the biggest falls in child mortality ever seen, anywhere

Comments

[elspethdixon]

The one on child-mortality was especially good to read (obviously - people not dying is always a good thing). I kind of want to whack the one guy they quote who was going on about how much credit he personally should get for it, though.

[snowynight]

Agree