Study shows people have good gaydar
Scientific American has an article about a study that shows that people can (with better-than-chance accuracy) identify which men are...
What you can do to help New Hampshire
NH state Rep. Jim Splaine, who's been working hard to make same-sex marriage legal in NH, was kind enough to...
FIVE STATES!
A couple hours ago, the Maine legislature passed their same-sex marriage bill along to Gov. Baldacci. And he immediately signed...
This week in same-sex marriage
I keep neglecting to link to tacithydra's excellent and thorough set of same-sex marriage entries. A bunch of info I'm...
Waking up is hard to do
Haven't had much sleep lately—usually about five hours a night, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. Last night,...
Emotional consequences in fiction
Something I see fairly often in stories: Some huge life-changing event has happened—whether to the protagonist, to someone close to...
How I met Kam
As I've noted before, the 1st of May is not exactly Kam's and my anniversary, but it's the anniversary of...
April submissions
How'd it get to be May already? In April, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 439 valid submissions. On the...
Virtues revisited
A spam comment led me to re-read the answers people gave to my question back in 2005 about favorite virtues....
Swine flu Q&A
Two useful swine flu pages: Swine flu: Your questions answered, from CNN Health. Do You Have Swine Flu?...
Quick video break
Courtesy of Kam: How to get up, eat breakfast, and get ready for work in five minutes, from a Japanese...
Waterboarding, torture, and Reagan
Two worthwhile pieces about torture: Former FBI agent Ali Soufan speaks up about the ineffectiveness of waterboarding and other related...