In a “Digital Life Sacrifice,” stars such as Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, and Alicia Keyes have tweeted their last until the AIDS charity Keep a Child Alive can raise $1 million in donations.
The celebrities begin their Twitter prohibition on Wednesday, World AIDS Day.
“We're trying to sort of make the remark: Why do we care so much about the death of one celebrity as opposed to millions and millions of people dying in the place that we're all from?” said Leigh Blake, the president and co-founder of Keep a Child Alive. “It's about love and respect and human dignity.”
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Thousands gathered in Delhi on Sunday for the country’s first gay pride parade since recent law changes made it no longer a crime to be homosexual in India.
Over 2,000 gay activists and supporters turned out for the cheerful celebration that stopped traffic as feathered marchers sang and danced under a giant rainbow flag. The event was quite a change from the marches held most recently to protest the criminalization of homosexuality in India. As gay activist Hillol Dutta said, “Last year it was about protest, but this year it is all about celebration.” And while acceptance is slow going in the still sexually-conservative nation, hopes are high. Just like hopes everywhere around the world.
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A new sexual disorder has been discovered—just what we needed, right?—but this one isn’t your garden-variety blue-pill type issue. And, don’t worry, there’s no report of any widespread epidemic…so far it’s just one patient under the care of doctors at the University of Copenhagen goes temporarily blind right after sex.
It’s called transient monocular blindness precipitated by sexual intercourse or, sex that makes one blind. As Discovery’s NCBI ROFL blog reports; “The physiological response to sexual activity includes an increase in sympathetic nervous system activity, heart rate and systolic blood pressure. [The University’s] patient experienced transient monocular visual loss every time he reached the climax of sexual intercourse, but never while performing strenuous physical exercise.” Now that’s some blinding sex.
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Today, we are faced with the ultimate, life-and-death, eternal question of questions—Is this really Jake Gyllenhaal’s penis?
The world may never know. But in the interest of answering the universe’s timeless questions, we’ll keep studying this one. Over and over.
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Two male vultures at a German zoo are being forced apart by zookeepers, even though they enjoy each other’s company more than that of female vultures.
“They always sat so closely together. They defended their nest from the other vultures,” the zoo's curator, Dirk Wewers said of the pair, named Guido and Detlef. But no matter how they enjoyed each other’s company, Guido has been sent off for breeding efforts to a Czech zoo while Detlef is left pining for his lost love. “Detlef is reorienting himself now,” said Wewers. Oh … poor Detlef. Seriously, why hasn’t Pixar made a movie about this? Our heartstrings are already tugged.