Things We Saw Today: Meet the “Out Queer Person of Color” Who Led the Discovery of Gravitational Waves

Last week, the science world (and science enthusiasts!) rejoiced with the discovery of gravitational waves. Logo’s NewNowNext now has a profile on the self-proclaimed “out queer person of color” who led the effort toward this discovery – Dr. Nergis Mavalvala at MIT. Check it out, and revel in her awesomeness.

• The Muse wonders why Singer Andra Day isn’t already a household name, citing this beautiful performance of her song “Rise Up” at the 2015 Trumpet Awards with which she also pays homage to the black women of Congress. *goes to listen to more Andra Day*
• THREE WHOLE ANTI-BEYONCÉ protesters showed up to what ended up being a pro-Beyoncé (and more importantly, an anti-racism) rally. (via New York Magazine)
• Here’s a computer “virus” you’ll want. Happy Hour Virus will help you make it look like your computer’s broken so you can leave work early. Let’s just hope that your IT person doesn’t know how to do stuff like…press the Esc button.
• Wanna store a crapton of data pretty much forever without worrying about what will happen to it in the cloud? Now, you can store 360TB of information on nanostructured quartz for up to 14 billion years. (via Gizmodo)
• It looks like Secret Warriors‘ Slingshot is coming to Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D! Natalia Cordova-Buckley has been cast in the role. Check out a first glimpse over at ComicBook.com.

Well, that’s some of the stuff we’ve seen on the Internet today! How about you? Sharing is caring!

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Teresa Jusino (she/her) is a native New Yorker and a proud Puerto Rican, Jewish, bisexual woman with ADHD. She's been writing professionally since 2010 and was a former TMS assistant editor from 2015-18. Now, she's back as a contributing writer. When not writing about pop culture, she's writing screenplays and is the creator of your future favorite genre show. Teresa lives in L.A. with her brilliant wife. Her other great loves include: Star Trek, The Last of Us, anything by Brian K. Vaughan, and her Level 5 android Paladin named Lal.

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