Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist and author who was called the “poet laureate of medicine” died in his New York City home Sunday. He was 82. “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” spoke with Sacks in 1989. Joanna Simon asked him how he would like to be remembered in 100 years: “I would like it to be thou

Australian scientists, tonight, have a clearer picture of the deepest parts of Earth’s core with groundbreaking research confirming earth has an extra layer than previously thought.

Assi and his husband got married in Barcelona, afraid of homophobic extended family members.

He said his dad was still suspicious of their relationship up until the wedding. ‘Something in him changed that day,’ he said. ‘He saw what he couldn’t see before. He felt the love that he had never felt

20 years after winning the first season of Pop Idol (American Idol‘s British precursor) at age 23, singer Will Young is sharing the hardships of being openly gay in ’00s Britain. In a recent interview with Metro, the singer described the experience following his reluctant coming out. “It was more ju

Got to admit, I get a tear of pride in my eye watching them. Never thought they would reach for this venue. I served with the 82nd from '73-'76, and they became a fixture at nearly all events featuring the 82nd Airborne. AIRBORNE! ALL THE WAY chorus. We need to hear 'Blood on the Risers' in this co...

Just in time for National Coming Out Day 2015 comes this beautifully animated story from Storycorps. Patrick Haggerty grew up the son of a dairy farmer in rural Dry Creek, Washington, during the 1950s. As a teenager, Pat began to understand he was gay—something he thought he was hiding well. But on

I’ve only rarely sung this song in the many years since it was written, because I never thought it would be relevant again. But, in the light of one man’s bloody and woefully misguided decision to invade a peaceful, unthreatening neighbor, the song is, once again, a plea for our common humanity. For

Timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the artist's first print this show celebrates David Hockney's long and fruitful career as a printmaker. Over 100 carefully chosen works give a highly instructive and entertaining overview of the artist's graphic career and reveal the thought and technic...

Original footage ... thanks to the efforts of the whole community) it was finally possible to "decipher" what Einstein is saying: "Now I will add a few words unprepared. [laughter] A country becomes really a soul only in consciously serving the intellectual life, and in the case of our Jewish peopl...

Liam Manning's coming out story at age 18. Hey guys, so I know in school many of my friends and I are about to graduate and we are all struggling to stay motivated. As many of us say, we are riding the struggle bus. So I thought I might tell you guys 5 ways to know if you are on the struggle bus to...