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During Friday’s celebration in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, CBC News and 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan got separated from her camera crew and was beaten and sexually assaulted by protesters. The attack reportedly happened moments after the photo in this post was taken. “A dangerous element” in the crowd surrounded Logan and her crew, said CBS spokesman Kevin Tedesco. “It was …

It should be obvious by the absence of Ken Jennings, but this is a news story about the technology, not a recap of the ongoing challenge.

Courtesy of its producers, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Evolution Of A Dancer, a novel dance party that will explore the history of gay nightclubbing. Evolution Of A Dancer takes place this Sunday, February 20th at Manhattan’s Rebel club. Performing that night are legendary DJs Susan Morabito, Michael Fierman, and John Celgia. While dance culture has …

Astrophysicists at the University of Louisiana said today they are close to proving the existence of an enormous gas planet on the far outer edges of the solar system. The long-pondered tenth planet (if you still count Pluto) could be four times larger than Jupiter and its existence would explain the behavior of nearby comets. The potential new planet has …

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, some of the undercover cops that took part in the now-infamous raid on the Atlanta Eagle had been drinking heavily in the bar before the raid began. Two of the cops are said to have downed “shot after shot of Jagermeister,” including rounds bought for them by the bartender. Three undercover officers were already in …

This was a British poll, so the respondents are actually talking about a million pounds, not dollars. Not shown on the chart: Give up a kidney (15%), play Russian Roulette (2%), cut off an arm (1%). The sunlight one seems totally doable to me.

Taken from Marin County, California’s Mount Tamalpais, with Sutro Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. This above size doesn’t do this photo justice, so click over for a much larger version and an explanation of the photographer’s unusual technique.

The new proposed federal budget released yesterday by the Obama administration maintains funding levels for HIV research, treatment, and prevention. The AIDS Institute is surprised and grateful. Via press release: The budget President Obama proposed yesterday for fiscal year 2012 maintains his Administration’s commitment to domestic and global HIV/AIDS programs, and proposes increases for domestic AIDS medications and HIV prevention, …

An anti-gay Islamist group is accused of peppering East London with stickers declaring the area to be a “gay-free zone.” The stickers include the warning: “Fear Allah.” Pictures of the stickers were sent in by a local resident, who said he tried to remove them. He told PinkNews.co.uk: “Tower Hamlets council won praise from Stonewall for its LGBT friendliness, but …