It's Friday! The week is nearly over. It's time to celebrate!
As usual, here is a collection of news and other things that I ran across over the course of the week which struck me as worthy of being shared:
Fed Up With a Lack of Diverse Children's Books, Queer Parents Write Their Own.
How Gamora Is Both The Least And Most Interesting Character In GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY.
Why Am I Moving Left? I used to be right down the middle. But America’s changed, and so have I..
Photos from the Mars Hill Church Protest in Bellevue.
How My Father's Gay Marriage Trial Re-Ignited My Calling to the Ministry.
Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead.
Paul Krugman cheers the Obama victory everyone else forgot.
Fun with Troglodytes: Battling Angry Right-Wing Trolls.
“Oppressed” Straight White Men Express Right To Hate Football Team For Being LGBT Inclusive. And apparently feeling left out, some baseball fans react just as ridiculously: Anti-Gay Fans Rant On Facebook Over White Sox LGBT Night.
The Colorado Attorney General's Ugly and Wasteful Crusade Against Marriage Equality.
GOP wimps suddenly fear social issues: How tables turned on religious right.
Rocking The Boat: Fundamentalist Ministry Head Responds To ‘Ark Park’ Criticisms.
They're Going to Blame the Gays for Climate Change. Some of the commenters on this article scolded the author for focusing on the anti-gay comments when other sins were mentioned. But then how about this other wingnuts: Ann Coulter: Christians Should Just Let Africans Die Of All Those Horrible Diseases. And: Harlem Hate Pastor James Manning: All Those Who Support Homosexuality, Be Thou Cursed With Ebola. (The minister starts shouting his hate partway through the video, be warned!) Even the White Supremacists are getting in on the act: African Negroes Blame Faggotry for Escalating Ebola Epidemic. And also: Pastor Rick Wiles: Ebola Could Solve America's Problem With Gays & Atheists.
All these haters are just depressing. Let's get back to science:
Zoologger: Hero ant jumps off cliff to eject invaders.
Astronomers find stream of gas – 2.6 million light years long.
Science and tech prints ads from the 50s-60s.
Scientists introduce new cosmic connectivity: Quantum pigeonhole paradox.
Why Your Supermarket Sells Only 5 Kinds of Apples. (Thanks to @tdjohnsn for the link)
Why Vaccine and GMO Denial Should be Treated Equally.
Giant Penguins Roamed Antarctica 40 Million Years Ago.
Supernovas Might Create Weird 'Zombie Stars'.
Concerned about Ebola? You’re worrying about the wrong disease: Despite the terrifying headlines, almost none of us will get sick from Ebola – our fears often bear little relation to reality.
The Man Who Invented the 26th Dimension. How a scientist you never heard of made String Theory possible.
Meanwhile, I revealed Confessions of a creative fool.
I also wrote about hacking and passwords: Patching and praying isn’t enough.
Sam Smith - I'm Not The Only One:
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Bear In Heaven - Time Between:
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Hips Don't Lie - Charity Single - Out of the Blue - Shakira:
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Tom Goss's Acoustic Cover of Iggy Azalea's Fancy:
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Native Advertising :
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Pentatonix - We Are Ninjas | Inspired by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Short, sweet, fun... which I bet is more than we'll be able to say about the next movie adaptation):
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Doctor Who Parody by The Hillywood Show®:
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Self-Folding Robot Assembles Autonomously:
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