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Same-sex couples can start applying for marriage licenses in New York City using online forms that now feature gender-neutral terminology.
The Office of the City Clerk made new forms available on its website Tuesday.
The forms allow couples to enter information for “bride,” “groom” or the gender-neutral “spouse.” Previously, they only allowed for “ ( Read more... )

A judge ruled Thursday that a San Diego pro-gay marriage group can continue canvassing outside of Target stores in California, but the group’s volunteers must stay 30 feet away from store entrances and canvass at just one entrance at a time.
The Minnesota-based retail giant had sought an injunction barring the activists from every outlet in the ( Read more... )

This Week in Our Terrifying Oceans
This week’s biggest development was that science got terrifying for the non-dork community as well, as news of the report from the International Programme on the State of the Oceans began to seep into the mainstream media.
And the mainstream media, when it realized what it was reading, began to soil itself with ( Read more... )

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It was a weekend of wedding proposals, wedding plans and earnest thanks. The hard-won right to same-sex marriage in New York state gave way to joyous thoughts of trips down the aisle becoming a reality, not just a dream, for many thousands of gay couples.
“New York has sent a message to the nation,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday before the colorful ( Read more... )

This Week in Terrifying Science: The Eyes Have It
Once again, Mother Nature has served us up such a festival of unease that we don’t even need robots to hit our recommended daily allowance of free-floating anxiety. Let’s dive right in, shall we?
This Week in Terrifying Insects
Rob Dunn served up an impressive one-two punch in Scientific American. ( Read more... )

Aww, Matt.
Just when you thought you'd seen every type of marriage proposal, this guy thinks of something that hasn't been done before.
He explains:
My girlfriend, Ginny, gets taken to the movie theater to see Fast Five. After a preview for The Hangover 2, a trailer for a movie comes on -- a trailer I made of her father and I, where I ask her ( Read more... )

Last week I received a question from Pop reader Lucy C. Seems like a good one for a Tuesday, so here goes:
I was looking at your Cool Stuff on DVD Today segment and wondered if at all possible you could include any new "Watch Instantly'' releases on Netflix? It gets exhausting weeding out what's new to watch instantly on the website, and I can't ( Read more... )

 A Toronto broadcaster has been fired after he posted on Twitter about the debate surrounding New York Rangers forward Sean Avery’s support of same-sex marriage.
Damian Goddard was a host on Rogers Sportsnet. On Tuesday, he tweeted his support for hockey agent Todd Reynolds, who used Twitter to voice his opposition to Avery’s position.
Goddard wrote ( Read more... )