Gay rights are certainly having a moment, which makes this a good time to revisit the career of Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, who helped change psychiatry's definition of homosexuality away from a "disorder" but also lent his substantial influence to a study supporting a "gay cure."
Today a science story was born and killed in just hours: this morning science lifted our spirits with this finding that coffee made us live a little longer, Wonkblog's Sarah Kliff gets all smarty pants on us by debunking the finding with this contrarian headline: "No, drinking coffee probably won’t make you live longer."
Discovered: Why we see the man in the moon, yoga is good for our health, a new species of shark and the first ever image of atoms forming molecules.
Discovered: An anti-drinking drug, emotional computers, parents don't know where there kids are sometimes, there's oxygen and possibly life on Saturn's moon, and a creature that sees without eyes.
Discovered: The right age to get fat, a possible sugary cure for Alzheimer's, coffee will not kill us, and there's a decent chance the sun will explode.
Discovered: A magical flu vaccine, there's no such thing as a healthy video game, a quantum microphone, nicotine mouth spray, your boyfriend may think you're fatter than you are.
Discovered: An off switch for pain, a finger-powered cell phone charger, what your ear of choice says about your brain, the clouds are coming for us, and buckyballs in space.
Discovered: What the moon's insides look like, the tiniest transistor of all time, climate change is killing alpine chipmunks, and get ready for test-tube hamburgers.
Discovered: Glue from gecko feet, alcohol as a health food, sleeping your way to memory loss, and pregnant women should get dogs.
Discovered: Goats can develop accents, drinking alcohol shrinks brains, another study confirms vaccines don't cause autism.
Discovered: Weight loss might be contagious, just thinking about kids ruins women scientists, a new black hole, the Internet does not help failing relationships.
Discovered: Electric cars aren't so green after-all, another earthquake on the way for Fukushima?, hearing aids are not popular, everyone hates their bosses, babies understand language.
Discovered: What eating does to the brain, estrogen makes male snakes crazy, and nobody knows anything about kids' sleep.
Discovered: How the zebra got its stripes, driving high is not safe, Spanish teens are squares, what caused Snowmaggedon, a drug that reverses Alzheimers.
Discovered: 150 billion tons of glaciers melt each year, the fourth warmest January recorded, a rehab app, female fertility changes the way men speak, the benefits of a normal name.
Discovered: Mars's ocean, it's OK to eat cake for breakfast, giving the middle finger is harder than it looks.
Russian scientists in Antarctica have reached a freshwater lake hidden beneath two miles of ice, but we won't get to find out what lurks beneath for quite sometime.
Discovered: The oldest painting ever, high cancer rates for 9/11 heroes, slang does not equal stupidity, spinning is like having a heart attack, the gender wage gap is getting better, faster.
Discovered: Online dating is a crock, sugar is toxic, mapping the Milky Way and church as a weight loss management technique.
Discovered: Twitter addiction, Super Earth, there's a possibility obesity is infectious, 1.2 million malaria deaths, drinking coffee has at least one health benefit for a small set of people.
Discovered: There is not a jellyfish epidemic, Facebook is bad for people with low self-esteem, the case for massages, so many useless tweets.
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