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A scientist from the Wellcome Sanger Institute explains why Leonardo Da Vinci is her LGBT+ History Month icon!

TravelAwaits May.10.2021 It might seem implausible today, but Cold War dramas played out all across the hot desert of Arizona in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. And the stakes couldn’t have been higher. For the United States Air Force personnel who manned top-secret sites like the Titan II missile site near Green Valley, Arizona, nuclear war was a possible outcome. Of course, it never came to that, and the disarmed nuclear missile site south of Tucson now serves as a museum and National Historic...

‘Postcard from Poland: A walk down Gdanska Street’ City of Bydgoszcz in Poland, downtown cityscape. Source: Getty Images I’m currently living in the medieval Polish city of Bydgoszcz (pronounced ‘bid gosh tch’). My apartment is just a few meters from Gdańska Street, Bydgoszcz’s main street. I walk down this street almost daily either to buy groceries, visit one of the many trendy cafes or restaurants, or simply to breathe in some of the sights and history of this remarkable and bea...

 E-Mail IMAGE: In 2015, Pernille Bjørn became the first woman to be appointed to a professorship at the University of Copenhagens Department of Computer Science. view more  Credit: Photo: Emilie Thejll-Madsen DISSEMINATION AWARD: Women sent the first computer into space and programmed some of the 1970s most iconic computer games. Nevertheless, women are invisible in both the history and culture of computer science. Professor Pernille Bjørn wants to change all that, and in doing so, ...

Visit The Museum Of The Rockies As part of Montana’s Dinosaur Trail, the museum has a large collection of fossilized dinosaur skeletons discovered in the state. Exhibits on the not-as-distant past showcase the lives of Native Americans and European pioneers, including homesteading on the Living History Farm. Two large galleries with temporary exhibitions, typically photography and art, round out the offerings. Pro Tip: Allow two to three hours for your visit to this ADA-compliant museum. T...

(Photo by Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Images/BBC) The LGBT+ community is made up of a diverse group of people from all over the world, and their stories are often overlooked in history books. PinkNews spoke to ambassadors and workers from LGBT+ youth charity Just Like Us about the historical figures they wished they had learned about in school, from the past to the present. Anne Lister was a prolific diarist in the 19th century. (Public Domain) Anne Lister, English landowner and diarist Rit...

Britain to Launch ‘High Risk, High Reward’ Science Agency The UK is to launch a new “high risk, high reward” agency to quickly identify cutting-edge science and technology research, it was revealed on Friday. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will allow world-leading scientists the freedom to find and back “ground-breaking discoveries that could transform people’s lives for the better,” the government said in a media release. It said ARIA will aim to seek out pione...

Spoilers ahead! Updated on 17 January 2021 This piece contains spoilers for the entirety of The Queens Gambit. A confession: I am quite terrible at chess. I do know the rules, but none of the strategy. None of the game. Nevertheless, inspired by the thrilling chess sequences of The Queens Gambit, a Netflix mini-series about a young chess prodigy, I booted up the chess program pre-loaded on my laptop, positioned the difficulty slider quite generously to my ...

The oval office, that is the presidents office himself. so if for him to say they didnt come from the white house is as wrong. he has to know its wrong and it has to be investigated by the f.b.i.. >> gregg: democratic senator dianne feinstein said i think that the white house has to understand that some of it is coming their ranks. you are persuaded that the leaks were intended to burnish his image to help him get re-elected? >> i think they were done carelessly about the white house whether or ...